Last night I dreamed how to draft a pattern piece for a shirt I've been thinking about making. The weird part is, a) I remember it and b) the diagram that my dreaming self drew, with notes about where to take measurements, is actually useful and accurate. Usually when I have these "Oh, THAT'S the solution!" dreams they are nonsense, like writing a Pulitzer-prize winning poem that goes
Have you
forgotten
your pudding?
It's chocolate and it's
behind
the divan.
or something, or I just wake up with the feeling that I've solved all my problems but it's lost to sleep. This time, it was like my subconscious rolled its eyes, said "oh come ON, this is easy, let's just do this so we can move on to something else, GOD," and got the job done. Poor subconscious. I guess I should get that shirt made so it can go back to fantastic voyages and/or insanely complicated errands.
I'd like to point out, however, that the skirt I was making to go with the shirt was hideous. Hi. de. ous. Multiple strips of raw-edged, acid-washed denim? Floor-length tulip skirt? I THINK NOT.
Posted by hilatron at August 18, 2006 09:13 AM | TrackBackDo you ever wonder who invented the tulip skirt? I have a conspiracy theory about that. I'd tell you, but.
I mean, who looks good in those things? Who? Not the tall leggy unit. Not the short wide unit. Not the straight-as-a-tent-pole unit. Not the voluptuously curvy unit.
Nobody. And yet, and yet, and yet, they keep Coming Out With The Damn Things. And selling them, apparently.
There's clearly some kind of mind-control link between the Republicans and the Tulip Skirt. Republicans keep getting voters to vote against their own interests -- their own survival, fer pity's sake. And the Tulip Skirt Manipulators keep getting women to part with hard-earned cash for the dubious privilege of deforming their normal figures into shapes even a mother couldn't love.
I just know George Bush has to be behind it all.
Maybe you have to be asymmetrical or something.
Posted by: Doombot at August 23, 2006 10:29 PM