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Dec. 12th, 2008 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fangrrl_squeesI madly, desperately want these gloves for Lucy!Master.
I particularly want them because they're unlined. I've a pair of sadly beaten-up unlined kid leather gloves - which I used as shooting gloves, back when I used to go to the gun-range on occasion, believe it or not - and I've learned that there's a significant difference in the look and feel between lined and unlined gloves. Even the poshest, fanciest, Thinsulate-or-whathaveyou lining adds bulk and that's not what I want.
Heck, contrast the picture of the gloves, above, with these lined ones from the same seller.
Whaddya mean, obsessive? I'm simply meticulous!
Besides, I just like unlined leather gloves. So there.
*wistful sigh* Maybe in January...
Meanwhile, the shirt continues apace. I found some great buttons that look even better, thanks to a bit of 'rub and buff' - some nasty chemical goo supposedly used by unethical antique dealers. Whatever, it brought out the detail on the little Asian-ish dragon-motif buttons a beaut. Meanwhile, I have to press where the lining has been put in, handstitch it where necessary and then (oh, lawks) put on the buttons and the buttonholes and I'm done. The pattern expects me to put in hook-and-eye tape, under the buttons, but I'm really surprised that would be necessary. I'm going to try the shirt without that feature, first, and then decide if I need to go nigh-blind sewing in hooks-and-eyes.
Speaking of blind, I'm so tired I can barely see. Bedtime for the fangrrl, I think.
I particularly want them because they're unlined. I've a pair of sadly beaten-up unlined kid leather gloves - which I used as shooting gloves, back when I used to go to the gun-range on occasion, believe it or not - and I've learned that there's a significant difference in the look and feel between lined and unlined gloves. Even the poshest, fanciest, Thinsulate-or-whathaveyou lining adds bulk and that's not what I want.
Heck, contrast the picture of the gloves, above, with these lined ones from the same seller.
Whaddya mean, obsessive? I'm simply meticulous!
Besides, I just like unlined leather gloves. So there.
*wistful sigh* Maybe in January...
Meanwhile, the shirt continues apace. I found some great buttons that look even better, thanks to a bit of 'rub and buff' - some nasty chemical goo supposedly used by unethical antique dealers. Whatever, it brought out the detail on the little Asian-ish dragon-motif buttons a beaut. Meanwhile, I have to press where the lining has been put in, handstitch it where necessary and then (oh, lawks) put on the buttons and the buttonholes and I'm done. The pattern expects me to put in hook-and-eye tape, under the buttons, but I'm really surprised that would be necessary. I'm going to try the shirt without that feature, first, and then decide if I need to go nigh-blind sewing in hooks-and-eyes.
Speaking of blind, I'm so tired I can barely see. Bedtime for the fangrrl, I think.
