Got some books from Amazon...
One of my long-awaited packages arrived today, containing Draping for Fashion Design and Foot Soldiers: Stories from the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk. (I'm still waiting for two more books and 25 red ostrich feathers.) Can't wait to get into them...I plan to make myself (with Mike's help) a brown-paper-tape dress dummy and try draping.
I also want to read Foot Soldiers because it's the most obviously parallel book to the one I'm writing. It seems to have a totally different angle, though--she's writing stories about women's battles with breast cancer, I'm writing stories about courage. There's overlap, but the focus is different, I think. But I'll have to read more to know for sure.
I'm of two minds about Draping for Fashion Design. On the one hand, I would love to learn about draping, and pattern design, in the abstract. On the other hand, I must face the fact that I have three major Projects going on at the moment and that my time on this earth is strictly limited. If I'm going to do a crazy-quilt top, dye and stamp my own fabrics, write a book, and incidentally train for AIDS Lifecycle and the Markleeville Death Ride, I probably don't have time to learn about draping unless it is directly and immediately applicable to making better patterns for my costumes. I may be better off waiting until my friend finishes the pattern he's making for me.
Nonetheless, it sounds really interesting and I'm tempted by it. I will probably take a cruise through the book and see how much effort it would be to drape a costume. I think it's fairly likely to wind up filed in my book collection, though.
I'm frustrated. Life is so short and there are so many things I want to get done, so many things I want to learn...! Where on earth do other people find TIME?
I also want to read Foot Soldiers because it's the most obviously parallel book to the one I'm writing. It seems to have a totally different angle, though--she's writing stories about women's battles with breast cancer, I'm writing stories about courage. There's overlap, but the focus is different, I think. But I'll have to read more to know for sure.
I'm of two minds about Draping for Fashion Design. On the one hand, I would love to learn about draping, and pattern design, in the abstract. On the other hand, I must face the fact that I have three major Projects going on at the moment and that my time on this earth is strictly limited. If I'm going to do a crazy-quilt top, dye and stamp my own fabrics, write a book, and incidentally train for AIDS Lifecycle and the Markleeville Death Ride, I probably don't have time to learn about draping unless it is directly and immediately applicable to making better patterns for my costumes. I may be better off waiting until my friend finishes the pattern he's making for me.
Nonetheless, it sounds really interesting and I'm tempted by it. I will probably take a cruise through the book and see how much effort it would be to drape a costume. I think it's fairly likely to wind up filed in my book collection, though.
I'm frustrated. Life is so short and there are so many things I want to get done, so many things I want to learn...! Where on earth do other people find TIME?
2 Comments:
Let me know what you think of Foot Soldiers.
Deborah Douglas, M.D.
With all the stuff that you do, some of us are kept wondering, where on Earth do YOU find the time!
Wow. I am in awe of all you manage to get done.
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