Monday, November 22, 2021

Belated Costume Patterns and A Tiny FanFic

 I missed these patterns at Joanns in October, or maybe they are just gift sewing choices

Kind of two classic Joker looks for the comic books

The Care Bears?  Is this a New Generation thing? Why do they have Shrek ears? (there is no licensed Shrek pattern btw)

They had a pattern line
There was a whole series of them. This is not my copy. I have one of these  patterns, but I am too damn lazy to go dig up the photo or dig the pattern out and take another photo. Someone had an entire set at Value Village and it blew my mind. I could only take one.

there is a three piece face mask pattern included. It's tempting if it goes on the big sale


Of course, the Child, DBA Grogu.

this is creepy. It really is.

I can see buying this.

But what did come home with me was a yard of this 'retro' Darth print.


Okay, I see this as Pride Vader. He spent his youth trying to free his mother, and his teenaged years with another older woman, probably had more of a crush (I mean, the gal had a wardrobe I'd die for) than love for. Anakin never did like sand, it was too rough and coarse. What else do we know about him? Very little. All we know is that he likes making stuff out of broken stuff; the best mechanic in the galaxy?

Society's expectations broke him and made him into a weapon.
Poor kid.


Thursday, November 11, 2021

Shirtmaking Workbook, or Coffin's underdelivered content


 I am not covering any new ground with this book report. I am kind of annoyed that I bought this book, because I had heard about this before. And you can read the entire book online on ISSUU if you poke around a little.

Before I forget, I found this page (copy and paste in yr own browser)

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/viewer.html?pdfurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2.quartoknows.com%2Fuploads%2Ffiles%2FCPi%2Fshirtmaking%2Fonline-content-directory-1.pdf&chunk=true

while searching for the missing online content for David Page Coffin's The Shirtmaking Workbook.

There are clickable links in this PDF with addresses on Quarto's website.



Hell yes I do!
and here's where it goes


Nothing.

There has always been some online grousing about overpromising and underdelivering on Coffin's part for this book, which offered more than 100 pattern downloads for Collars Cuffs and Plackets. It's part of the title, for goshsakes.

an early review, Lindsey - I thank you, wherever you are


The book is still for sale by Quarto, with this cover:


And it has  that advertisement on the front


and has absolutely no linked material, as of today, November 11, 2021.

I have a couple of emails to Quarto. We'll see if they have any form response. I will follow up if they do.