Neglect

I owe my editor a revised draft of my manuscript next week, so in the meantime, I'm crazy busy.

In sewing news, last week I busted out Butterick 4919 because, and this is not the kind of thing you can really announce in advance on the internet, we went on the husb's company cruise this weekend! I finished the approximately 12 feet of hem Friday morning an hour before we left to catch the boat. The dress was great except that it was soooo low cut in front, especially compared to the illustration on the pattern. Before I wear it again, I'll definitely tack that closed. The result is that the photos are going to require a lot of Photoshopping, because not only is my bra showing in most of them (just the tiniest bit), but that tiny bit of bra has a weird little tuft of thread on it, so it looks like I'm just wearing the most ghetto support garments ever. (Tim Gunn would faint dead away.)

Oh well! The dress was kind of a statement -- the fabric is crazy bright colors that reflect the husb's company colors (what can I say, I love a theme!), and it looked especially bright compared with everyone else's sedate blacks and blues and dark greens. But it was very fun to wear, and I would definitely make the pattern again. I'll post a review over at Pattern Review within a week. I don't have any photos of myself on my camera, or I'd post one.

Okay, off to write! Duty calls!