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threadwalkerHey Porter, hey porter, can you tell me the time ....
(Gawd, I love Johnny Cash!)
This is a boring project management update. I'm transcribing notes that I jotted onto a scrap of paper. I need to compare my progress with my deadline.
Updated: 11/13/06
Post Mortem:
Schedule: I did not want to be up all night on 11/10, but that's what happened anyway. After some pondering (and after getting some sleep), I have some thoughts:
1. The handwork took a lot longer than I anticipated. So did the skirt. It's been a long time since I did a skirt, so I need to smack myself on that one.
2. I "lost" my BART handwork time when work got pushy about my commute times. I'd been planning on this time for handwork. Instead, the handwork pushed into my night time activities. Same for my lunch hour - taken by work. Next time, don't schedule around lunch and BART.
3. As soon as I had a dedicated space to sew, my production amped up.
4. Work - it sucked me dry. On weekends I was more sluggy than I thought I was. EG - after taking the moms out for the day a week ago, I was too tired to do anything afterwards. Slug-girl.
5. Fabric-foo. The lining got shipped to the wrong zip code and arrived at the last minute. The sleeve fabric was in D'Salai's hands when I wanted/needed it. This was actually key. I had a good window to make sleeves and it closed while D'Salai had the fabric. So next time - hold onto fabric until I"m done cutting it out. And for the lining, next time just go buy some because this was a hitch.
I would still do it again. What nice people to sew for and they let us have our "head" in what we wanted to make.
Final thought: Watching Firefly and The Last Samarai fueled my brain from midnight until I pulled out Saturday morning. Awesome sewing flicks! FF is a lot of fun, but also shows what loyalty and friendship can accomplish. And I hope I can always see the message in TLS.
Schedule:
Week of 10/30)
*Monday -
Projected:
Goal: undersleeves assembled and finished
Slashed sleeves (cut out, need to sew)
Goal 1. 2 tubes already sewn; sew 10 more; flip 12; press 12
Time: 10 pieces (tubes) x 15 min = 150 min
Goal 2. Sew Sleeve heads, outer and lining
Time: 15 min
Goal 3. Set tubes into sleeve heads, attach lining of sleeve head, flip, press, top stitch
Time: 30 min each = 60 min total
Monday Actual:
Goal 1: done
Goal 2: done
Goal 3: done
Total time: 11:30 pm - 1:40 am ... a bit over 2 hrs
*Tuesday (10/31)
Projected:
1. BART in AM: sew silk bands on sleeves
2. Lunch: sew silk bands on sleeves
3. 9pm - mid:
Goal 1: Cut and sew Chemise. Construct. Press seams. Gather neck. Machine on neck band. Est: 1 hr
(passing off finish work to Die Apprentice)
Goal 2: Cut and sew shirt. Construct. Press seams.Est: 1 hr
(passing off finish work to Die Apprentice - this was later cancelled)
Goal 3: Sew silk bands onto 2nd sleeve Est: 1.5 hr
Tuesday Actual:
1. Did not take BART - why did I think I could stay up until 3am and then spring out of bed at 5:30am? Which is what I need to do in order to get on BART in time to connect w/ my shuttle.
2. Worked my butt off at work (110% and all that), so went to lunch. Needed OUT of office.
3. Didn't start until 11:30 pm (again). Done with measuring and construction by 1am. Took until 3am to "turn" raw edges on one half of garment. And somewhere in there I fell asleep while pinning for about 30 min. - not on purpose. Just powered down in place.
Accomplished:
Goal 1: Measured, cut and constructed. Made sure there was enough fabric for man shirt. Did not gather neck. Did the rest. Actually finished/sealed half the seams, which was not on the list. This took at least as long as the measureing, cutting and pinning. I couldn't seem (seam?) to stop and go to bed. But it looks so freaking "clean" when the edges are turned. I love it. (total time: 3 hrs minus plus an inadvertant nap)
Goal 2: nope. Need measurements or pattern.
Goal 3: Nope.
*Wednesday
Projected:
1. BART in AM: silk on sleeves
2. Lunch: more sleeves (ugh -when will the sleeves be done?)
3. 9pm - mid:
Goal 1: Assemble Skirt-
A. Skirt main fabric - Cut, construct, press seams, finish seams
Est: 45 min
B. Skirt - hem piece - Cut, construct, press seams, finish seams
Est: 25 min
c. Attach lining and attach hem band
Est: 45 min
Goal 2: Attach the rest of the bands of silk to 2nd sleeve (moved from Tuesday on 11/1)
Wednesday Actual:
1. Drove - got up too late.
Wednesday Accomplished:
Start: 10 pm. Finish: 2am (went to bed at 4am - too wound up)
Goal 1: 1-1/2 hr
A. Done. 45 min.
B: Done. 45 min including time to find a yardstick.
C: Done. Lining had to be assembled, which was not planned for. And it had to be pieced to maximize the fabric. Flat feld seams.
Goal 2: 2 bands added and 2 band remaining. (45 min - lots of measuring and marking)
*Thursday (11/2)
Projected:
1. BART in AM: handwork - bodice?
2. Lunch ... lunch plans off site? need to double check
3. Eve: Da Apprentice. Bring cartridge pleating. (This was later cancelled, so more goals were added to list)
Goal 1: 2nd Sleeve
A. Assemble pieces (5 min)
B. Add 2 remaining bands (45 min; moved here on 11/2)
Goal 2: after I get home, lay in lacing holes on bodice. Seal up last arm-hole (moved here on 11/1 from Tuesday)
Goal 3: Did not pass off chemise. Therefore,
A. Seal up seams (1-1/2 hr)
B. gather neck. (30 min)
C. Attach neck band. (30 min)
D. Press and sew Hem and cuffs (45 min)
Goal 4: hand finish trim on sleeves (probably not time, but ...)
Thursday Actual
Did not make it onto BART - got up at 6:30 am - too late. Hnad work is dangerously behind schedule.
Start: 10:30, finish: 2am
Goal 1. Done (45 min)
Goal 2: 1/2 way done. (30 min - but dozed off in middle of this)
Goal 3:
A. Done (1-1/2 hr - all that pinning means less seam ripping)
B, C, D: nope
Goal 4: Nope.
I got the eyelets on the front half done and was wondering why I was all "hip" to do. And then I fell asleep while running the gadget. So instead of screwing this up, I finsihed the 2 front sides and will do 2 backsides later. I need to punch through and might have to do some hand-binding.
*Friday (11/3)
Projected:
Reassessed based on progress.
Goal 1: Chemise.
A. Gather neck. (30 min)
B. Attach band. (get this done by 9pm) (30 min)
C. cut hem to length, press, sew. (20 min; 30 if I pin ... okay, I'll pin. Sheesh, get out of my head!)
D. Turn cuffs
E. Finish collar by hand. (During BSG?)
Goal 2: Outer Sleeves (trim not done)
A. Sew silk trim down. (6 hrs total est) (mom will be over and won't be able to retreat to fortress of solitude anyway) Goal is to complete one sleeve and just see how much I can get done on the 2nd.
Goal 3: Undersleeve (if mom is still up)
A. hand whip slashes together. Add ribbons at arscye. Hem. (max 1 hr)
Friday Actual:
It looks like getting an average of 3hrs of sleep each night caught up with me. I worked on sewing silk to sleeves for about an hour and fell asleep. Didn't get anything else done.
*Saturday (11/4)
Projected:
After 8pm:
Goal 1: Make up outer sleeve(s)
A. sew sleeve. Attach inner lining in top. silk lining in bottom third. Mark gathers.
Est: 1.5 hr (because I'm into "measure twice, cut once")
B. Make up foundation sleeves and assemble. Mark where gathers go to. Seal w/ bias.
Est: 20 min
C. Hand gather sleeves
Est: 1 hr (30 min per sleeve, approx 15 min per gather allowing for fuss-factor)
D. Whip sleeves to foundation; leave top loose
Est: 1 hr (30 min per sleeve)
E. Pleat sleeves and whip to foundation
Est: 1 hr (30 min per sleeve)
Goal 2: Attach sleeves to bodice
Goal 3: Corset: needs eyelets and a bit of bias tape
Saturday actual:
Nope. Took my moms out for the day. Got up at 6am. Got home at dinner-ish time. Did dinner, grocery shopping and crashed at 8pm.
*Sunday (11/5)
Projected:
Goal 1: Cartridge pleating (2hr)
Goal 2: attach skirt to dress (30 min)
Goal 3: hem skirt w/ blind basting stitch. (1 hr - big hem)
Sunday Actual:
10 am at apprentice's house to help her. Worked on 2nd sleeve while I was there. Made good progress - no longer panicking.
Anything that has fallen behind schedule. Maybe make a coat if I'm motivated. Or take the kids to the zoo and call it "good".
Last week (11/6-11/10):
Monday, Tues, Wed:
Monday:
1. Cartridge pleated skirt.
2. Finished eyelets on bodice and closing up seams on dress (armscy, attach waist band, etc)
3. Re-did part of corset bias tape. Pinned bias tape to 2nd half of corset.
Tuesday Actual
1. Attached skirt to waist band = 4 hrs. (Holy cow!!!)
Wednesday Actual
1. Finished undersleeves
2. finsihed corset
3. Fitting
Goal: make up 1 oversleeve
Friday night:
1. Stop at Beverly's. D'Salai is a cow. Now I need cute gold beads. moooo!
To Do
1. almost done w/ applique on 2nd sleeve - finish on BART on way home.
2. handwork on 2nd Red sleeve (1 hr)
3. beads on both red sleeves (time allowing) (2 hr)
4. Make new foundation sleeves (20 min)
5. make up both over sleeves (2-3 hr - not sure. will need to use stop watch)
6. Hem skirt (2 hr - not sure - going to use blind hem stitch on machine)
7. hooks and eyes on waist band (20 min)
8. Whip sleeves to dress (20 min each)
Definitely no goofing around tonight. (dang! I just love goofing off)
In other news, I bought some wool for a new project.
And I am once again trying to work up a web site. Not my area, but hey, learning is fun.
Friday, 11/10/06
Ended up all night on Friday.
The outer sleeves took about 5-6 hrs to do. It was tedious and a lot of hand work.
The hem was finished by machine. Kind of cheating, but oh well. I used the blind stitch, so not too bad.
I finished sewing beads on the red sleeves at the event.
There was a lot of handwork. And I had to "figure out" how I wanted to do the outer sleeves.
The chemise did not get finished, but hers was so much nicer than the linen one - it worked a ton better on the slashed/gaped sleeves, it was clearly more suited to this outfit.
Forthcoming: chemise and coat. Need to throw part of the garding into the serger. Want to add some "flare" to the lining of the skirt.
(Gawd, I love Johnny Cash!)
This is a boring project management update. I'm transcribing notes that I jotted onto a scrap of paper. I need to compare my progress with my deadline.
Updated: 11/13/06
Post Mortem:
Schedule: I did not want to be up all night on 11/10, but that's what happened anyway. After some pondering (and after getting some sleep), I have some thoughts:
1. The handwork took a lot longer than I anticipated. So did the skirt. It's been a long time since I did a skirt, so I need to smack myself on that one.
2. I "lost" my BART handwork time when work got pushy about my commute times. I'd been planning on this time for handwork. Instead, the handwork pushed into my night time activities. Same for my lunch hour - taken by work. Next time, don't schedule around lunch and BART.
3. As soon as I had a dedicated space to sew, my production amped up.
4. Work - it sucked me dry. On weekends I was more sluggy than I thought I was. EG - after taking the moms out for the day a week ago, I was too tired to do anything afterwards. Slug-girl.
5. Fabric-foo. The lining got shipped to the wrong zip code and arrived at the last minute. The sleeve fabric was in D'Salai's hands when I wanted/needed it. This was actually key. I had a good window to make sleeves and it closed while D'Salai had the fabric. So next time - hold onto fabric until I"m done cutting it out. And for the lining, next time just go buy some because this was a hitch.
I would still do it again. What nice people to sew for and they let us have our "head" in what we wanted to make.
Final thought: Watching Firefly and The Last Samarai fueled my brain from midnight until I pulled out Saturday morning. Awesome sewing flicks! FF is a lot of fun, but also shows what loyalty and friendship can accomplish. And I hope I can always see the message in TLS.
Schedule:
Week of 10/30)
*Monday -
Projected:
Goal: undersleeves assembled and finished
Slashed sleeves (cut out, need to sew)
Goal 1. 2 tubes already sewn; sew 10 more; flip 12; press 12
Time: 10 pieces (tubes) x 15 min = 150 min
Goal 2. Sew Sleeve heads, outer and lining
Time: 15 min
Goal 3. Set tubes into sleeve heads, attach lining of sleeve head, flip, press, top stitch
Time: 30 min each = 60 min total
Monday Actual:
Goal 1: done
Goal 2: done
Goal 3: done
Total time: 11:30 pm - 1:40 am ... a bit over 2 hrs
*Tuesday (10/31)
Projected:
1. BART in AM: sew silk bands on sleeves
2. Lunch: sew silk bands on sleeves
3. 9pm - mid:
Goal 1: Cut and sew Chemise. Construct. Press seams. Gather neck. Machine on neck band. Est: 1 hr
(passing off finish work to Die Apprentice)
Goal 2: Cut and sew shirt. Construct. Press seams.Est: 1 hr
(passing off finish work to Die Apprentice - this was later cancelled)
Goal 3: Sew silk bands onto 2nd sleeve Est: 1.5 hr
Tuesday Actual:
1. Did not take BART - why did I think I could stay up until 3am and then spring out of bed at 5:30am? Which is what I need to do in order to get on BART in time to connect w/ my shuttle.
2. Worked my butt off at work (110% and all that), so went to lunch. Needed OUT of office.
3. Didn't start until 11:30 pm (again). Done with measuring and construction by 1am. Took until 3am to "turn" raw edges on one half of garment. And somewhere in there I fell asleep while pinning for about 30 min. - not on purpose. Just powered down in place.
Accomplished:
Goal 1: Measured, cut and constructed. Made sure there was enough fabric for man shirt. Did not gather neck. Did the rest. Actually finished/sealed half the seams, which was not on the list. This took at least as long as the measureing, cutting and pinning. I couldn't seem (seam?) to stop and go to bed. But it looks so freaking "clean" when the edges are turned. I love it. (total time: 3 hrs minus plus an inadvertant nap)
Goal 2: nope. Need measurements or pattern.
Goal 3: Nope.
*Wednesday
Projected:
1. BART in AM: silk on sleeves
2. Lunch: more sleeves (ugh -when will the sleeves be done?)
3. 9pm - mid:
Goal 1: Assemble Skirt-
A. Skirt main fabric - Cut, construct, press seams, finish seams
Est: 45 min
B. Skirt - hem piece - Cut, construct, press seams, finish seams
Est: 25 min
c. Attach lining and attach hem band
Est: 45 min
Goal 2: Attach the rest of the bands of silk to 2nd sleeve (moved from Tuesday on 11/1)
Wednesday Actual:
1. Drove - got up too late.
Wednesday Accomplished:
Start: 10 pm. Finish: 2am (went to bed at 4am - too wound up)
Goal 1: 1-1/2 hr
A. Done. 45 min.
B: Done. 45 min including time to find a yardstick.
C: Done. Lining had to be assembled, which was not planned for. And it had to be pieced to maximize the fabric. Flat feld seams.
Goal 2: 2 bands added and 2 band remaining. (45 min - lots of measuring and marking)
*Thursday (11/2)
Projected:
1. BART in AM: handwork - bodice?
2. Lunch ... lunch plans off site? need to double check
3. Eve: Da Apprentice. Bring cartridge pleating. (This was later cancelled, so more goals were added to list)
Goal 1: 2nd Sleeve
A. Assemble pieces (5 min)
B. Add 2 remaining bands (45 min; moved here on 11/2)
Goal 2: after I get home, lay in lacing holes on bodice. Seal up last arm-hole (moved here on 11/1 from Tuesday)
Goal 3: Did not pass off chemise. Therefore,
A. Seal up seams (1-1/2 hr)
B. gather neck. (30 min)
C. Attach neck band. (30 min)
D. Press and sew Hem and cuffs (45 min)
Goal 4: hand finish trim on sleeves (probably not time, but ...)
Thursday Actual
Did not make it onto BART - got up at 6:30 am - too late. Hnad work is dangerously behind schedule.
Start: 10:30, finish: 2am
Goal 1. Done (45 min)
Goal 2: 1/2 way done. (30 min - but dozed off in middle of this)
Goal 3:
A. Done (1-1/2 hr - all that pinning means less seam ripping)
B, C, D: nope
Goal 4: Nope.
I got the eyelets on the front half done and was wondering why I was all "hip" to do. And then I fell asleep while running the gadget. So instead of screwing this up, I finsihed the 2 front sides and will do 2 backsides later. I need to punch through and might have to do some hand-binding.
*Friday (11/3)
Projected:
Reassessed based on progress.
Goal 1: Chemise.
A. Gather neck. (30 min)
B. Attach band. (get this done by 9pm) (30 min)
C. cut hem to length, press, sew. (20 min; 30 if I pin ... okay, I'll pin. Sheesh, get out of my head!)
D. Turn cuffs
E. Finish collar by hand. (During BSG?)
Goal 2: Outer Sleeves (trim not done)
A. Sew silk trim down. (6 hrs total est) (mom will be over and won't be able to retreat to fortress of solitude anyway) Goal is to complete one sleeve and just see how much I can get done on the 2nd.
Goal 3: Undersleeve (if mom is still up)
A. hand whip slashes together. Add ribbons at arscye. Hem. (max 1 hr)
Friday Actual:
It looks like getting an average of 3hrs of sleep each night caught up with me. I worked on sewing silk to sleeves for about an hour and fell asleep. Didn't get anything else done.
*Saturday (11/4)
Projected:
After 8pm:
Goal 1: Make up outer sleeve(s)
A. sew sleeve. Attach inner lining in top. silk lining in bottom third. Mark gathers.
Est: 1.5 hr (because I'm into "measure twice, cut once")
B. Make up foundation sleeves and assemble. Mark where gathers go to. Seal w/ bias.
Est: 20 min
C. Hand gather sleeves
Est: 1 hr (30 min per sleeve, approx 15 min per gather allowing for fuss-factor)
D. Whip sleeves to foundation; leave top loose
Est: 1 hr (30 min per sleeve)
E. Pleat sleeves and whip to foundation
Est: 1 hr (30 min per sleeve)
Goal 2: Attach sleeves to bodice
Goal 3: Corset: needs eyelets and a bit of bias tape
Saturday actual:
Nope. Took my moms out for the day. Got up at 6am. Got home at dinner-ish time. Did dinner, grocery shopping and crashed at 8pm.
*Sunday (11/5)
Projected:
Goal 1: Cartridge pleating (2hr)
Goal 2: attach skirt to dress (30 min)
Goal 3: hem skirt w/ blind basting stitch. (1 hr - big hem)
Sunday Actual:
10 am at apprentice's house to help her. Worked on 2nd sleeve while I was there. Made good progress - no longer panicking.
Anything that has fallen behind schedule. Maybe make a coat if I'm motivated. Or take the kids to the zoo and call it "good".
Last week (11/6-11/10):
Monday, Tues, Wed:
Monday:
1. Cartridge pleated skirt.
2. Finished eyelets on bodice and closing up seams on dress (armscy, attach waist band, etc)
3. Re-did part of corset bias tape. Pinned bias tape to 2nd half of corset.
Tuesday Actual
1. Attached skirt to waist band = 4 hrs. (Holy cow!!!)
Wednesday Actual
1. Finished undersleeves
2. finsihed corset
3. Fitting
Goal: make up 1 oversleeve
Friday night:
1. Stop at Beverly's. D'Salai is a cow. Now I need cute gold beads. moooo!
To Do
1. almost done w/ applique on 2nd sleeve - finish on BART on way home.
2. handwork on 2nd Red sleeve (1 hr)
3. beads on both red sleeves (time allowing) (2 hr)
4. Make new foundation sleeves (20 min)
5. make up both over sleeves (2-3 hr - not sure. will need to use stop watch)
6. Hem skirt (2 hr - not sure - going to use blind hem stitch on machine)
7. hooks and eyes on waist band (20 min)
8. Whip sleeves to dress (20 min each)
Definitely no goofing around tonight. (dang! I just love goofing off)
In other news, I bought some wool for a new project.
And I am once again trying to work up a web site. Not my area, but hey, learning is fun.
Friday, 11/10/06
Ended up all night on Friday.
The outer sleeves took about 5-6 hrs to do. It was tedious and a lot of hand work.
The hem was finished by machine. Kind of cheating, but oh well. I used the blind stitch, so not too bad.
I finished sewing beads on the red sleeves at the event.
There was a lot of handwork. And I had to "figure out" how I wanted to do the outer sleeves.
The chemise did not get finished, but hers was so much nicer than the linen one - it worked a ton better on the slashed/gaped sleeves, it was clearly more suited to this outfit.
Forthcoming: chemise and coat. Need to throw part of the garding into the serger. Want to add some "flare" to the lining of the skirt.
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Date: 2006-10-31 04:01 pm (UTC)eh?
3. Eve: Da Apprentice. Bring cartridge pleating.
Ok, who's who?
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Date: 2006-10-31 05:16 pm (UTC):-)
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Date: 2006-11-01 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-01 06:25 pm (UTC)hugs. calm. breath. See you Thursday
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Date: 2006-11-01 10:35 pm (UTC)Oh, and my comment above was tongue in cheek. ;-)
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Date: 2006-11-01 02:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-01 06:25 pm (UTC)