Final muslin fitting, prepping material

Muslin #2.  I can see that lengthening the front now has me in trouble with the back. The side seams are even.  I sense a muslin #3 in the future.
 

The back is now a little bit better.
 

The front is reaching my waist.  And notice how taking all that fabric out at the armpit level helped tremendously.
 

But I've still got a shoulder thing going on.  I solved this by having Matt cut back until there was a bigger opening.
 

Why is this picture upside down?  There is now more room in the shoulder area.
 

Here is the pattern for #1 topped with the pattern for muslin #2 in front,  with the changes outlined for #3 in green.  I've known it since I tried on Sara's strapless formal dress in tenth grade, but man, do I have shoulders.
 

Muslin #3.  I feel like I could pull in the shoulders a bit, and the waist, but I don't really know what I'm doing here, so I think I will leave it.
 

The back looks good.
 

Sentinel is a good helper.
 

Now to press all the underlining material.  This dress does not skimp on material.
 

Three sentence movie reviews: Friday Night Lights Season 1

I'm not really anti-spectator sports (meaning I love to read about baseball in novel form, and I don't mind that spectator sports exist, I just don't care to watch them) but I do have limited patience for football culture especially--it seems to magnify a lot of what I find unattractive about US society.  So why watch this show all about high school football in Texas?  Because the characters made me fall in love with them, broke my heart and keep me coming back for more.

Tracing pattern pieces

I'm feeling confused about how to make the changes from the muslin to the pattern, so I'll distract myself with tracing all the pattern pieces.
 

Here's the official pattern piece.
 

I devised a check system to ensure that I got all the pieces I needed.  I have to be wary of project pitfalls and one of them is not having everything I need.  If I miss a piece and have to backtrack to this stage, there's a good chance I won't finish the project.
 

The file cabinet holds what I need.  Here is a skirt piece and a pocket.
 

I only use the finest tools.  A true statement in the case of the rulers, which have been invaulable.  A false statement with the pattern weights which are just whatever object I can find to serve as "heavy."
 

Three sentence movie reviews: Before Sunrise and Before Sunset

In preparation for the next movie, a review of the first two was in order.  Once again, I found my front teeth drying because I smile for so long while watching them.  Now the hard part will be waiting for the next one.

Cost: Free because they are Christi's
Where watched:  at home with Christi, Kelly and Ameena.

posters from:

http://www.impawards.com/1995/before_sunrise.html

http://www.impawards.com/2004/before_sunset.html

Chicks!

The K/1 classes are studying birds and you may recall that the fertilized chicken eggs arrived a few weeks ago.  Well, the incubator worked (at least for four of them) and just like that, we have chicks.  I may not get any work done the rest of the school year.
 

This is them right after we took them out of the incubator.
 

Art building: more windows.

 

Potential bag?

I'm in the market for a new bag and I liked this one.

It has a circle of fabric on the bottom, sides going up with a long opening for slinging over the shoulder.

I don't like how everything would sink to the bottom, but perhaps I could add pockets or something.