currently: disliking drawing backgrounds.

anyone know how to cheat with drawing a background?

Fill it with gradient. Bonus points if it's masked gradient.

I finished another model kit. This one was considerably more complex than the first one I built... *eyes the pile of sprues*

...I read that as "pile of spruces"

Lol...glad I'm not the only one.

*snerks* that would take up a lot of space.

That's a lot of great socks!!

So...I actually made my shark skirt the other day. But it turned out so bad that I need to rip all the seams out and start again. The main problem is that the instructions made it seem like you needed twice as much fabric as you actually do. So instead if starting over at the point where I learned that, I just cut/ripped out the seams at the extra fabrics and tried to continue, but struggled with a lot of other issues. And it's still to big.

Gah, I hate when instructions are so vague or strangely worded that you'll end up having to figure out everything on your own anyway. Hope your next try works better!

Lol. The information given for figuring your fabric was waist measurement x2 +8 inches for seam allowances (because of how you sew all the panels together). What it should have said is waist +8" of each fabric.
XD

Have purchased seam ripper because I don't know where mine actually is. Might attempt ripping seams tonight...

Seam rippers always seem to wander off around here. Good thing they're not terribly expensive.

Had a coupon so I invested in a slightly hugher quality ergonomic one.

thanks Kitty!

also, Kaderin - was the skirt lined, or reversible? that would account for the x2.

Lined yes. But that was accounted for separately in the materials list. The waist x2 +8" (listed EXACTLY in that order in the video) was for the 2 fabrics needed to make the outside of the skirt. So the way the material measurements were given made it sound like you needed the waist x2 +8" of EACH fabric instead of total between the two. It seemed like too much when I was assembling it, but since it was a new pattern for me, I assumed that I was doing it right. Up until the pleats were done and it could still wrap around me twice.

ah, i gotcha. that seems like a weird way for the measurements to be given then.