Sewing updates

I just realized that its been days and days since I updated LJ...

Let's see, Sewing news.... Got the hooks and eyes sewn on the Enn's dress, it now fastens without safety pins and looks nice. The hem and guards remain to be done. I also intend to make some sleeves that tie in. My mother thinks I am insane to be wearing a wool dress in summer, let along having sleeves on the the thing. Sigh... Mothers.
I am taking it with me when I go over to Kennwick tomorrow so Mom can help me with the hem, hems are really hard to do by yourself in the mirror.

Last night I hauled my fabric stash out and inventoried it as well as organized it by color family. Then I worked out the fabric schemes for my next project. Most of my fabric stash up to this point has not been purchased with an eye towards what colors co-ordinate together, its more like, "Ooooh.... Pretty fabric, good price, MINE!" Needless to say, this creates an interesting selection of fabric that may or may not go together. So now I have the fabric set out for two doublets, one out of light green silk, one of out grey (maybe dyed black) tweed wool, and a black wool and silver duponi dress.

However before I can start a new project, I have to finish the Enn's dress and my sister's dress.

I drafted the bodice pattern for my sister's dress this afternoon, I followed the bodice pattern in Alcega, or generally anyway. My sister is not a big fan of the arched bodice, she looks really good in square necked bodice, so I changed the neckline. I am going to be working on that while I am over there, I hope to be super productive and get the body of the dress done and fitted on her person while I am over there, then there will just be the decoritive elements to put on over here.

Interviews up the ying/yang

The interviews on Friday went really well, I am really glad that I had them on the same day, made for a great compare and contrast between the two managers and positions.

The first one was the second interview for the first position and it was a good interview, and they are going to make me an offer.... But there is still travel involved, and its a completley new field for me.

The second interview went ABSOLUTLY FABULEOUS!!!! I have never had such a good interview, we laughed and had a great time over the hour and a half that I was there. I am going back for a second interview on Thursday with one of the head Traders from the Trading Desk. They have hired a lot of new people lately and he is afraid that they will hire another 'personality' on the floor. A couple of the questions she asked me were "Have you ever lost your temper?" Rarely and then I just get real quiet and leave the room. " Are you a screamer?" No.

On trading floors, 'Personality' is key word for difficult person with a high strung temper who can fly off the handle and yell, they tend to be extremely brilliant but can be difficult to manage and deal with. Fortunatly, I have several family members like this, so I know how to handle these kinds, plus I have worked around these guys for years. I am anticipating that this second interview will be a piece of cake, hopefully it will be. The job is a combo of routine and creative work, which sounds like a nice combo to me.

Hopefully I will start over there in the beginning of July.

Off to bed for me, got to get up and be lucid for a 7:15 am call from Matt.