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[gwendolyngrey]

I have decided that I will have to go to Costume College next year. It'll really be the last chance I have to do something like that before I have to concentrate on either building a career as a freelance illustrator, or go to grad school and THEN build up my career. Either way, after I'm done here at Grand Valley, real life is going to completely take over, and I have a sneaking suspision that I'll have to seriously cut back on the costuming front for the first year or two of trying to establish myself as a professional artist. SO, the point is, next  summer will be my last "pre-graduating" summer, and really will be the only opportunity, of my forseeable future, to do something like Costume College. Besides, I've never been to California.

Anyway, that's over a year away, but I've been thinking a lot about it (especially with CC 07 coming up so quickly) and I know excactly what I want to make for the gala... I was very inspired by a dress I saw at Killerton House in Devon, but I don't think I want to talk about it (the dress) too much... I don't want to jinx it.

The Sleepy Hollow Stripey is coming along quite well! I haven't made the underskirt, but the top part looks like a dress! Okay, so it's an unlined, sleeveless dress without much of a front, but hey, it's more than flat pieces of fabric on the floor, so I"m happy... not to mention the en fourreau pleating is over and done with. It wasn't as difficult as I had inticipated, but I have a gut feeling it would have been a LOT easier with a dressform. Flat drafting involves far too much careful calculating for my true enjoyment.