Zoinks! I just found out that Cartoon Network is making a new TV series: Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated!
I’m psyched. I adore Scooby-Doo. For CJ’s first Halloween, I dressed us all up as characters from Scooby Doo.
Let’s see if I can get anything done today. I’m hoping to get a little sewing done…maybe work on my bustle. Let’s see if I get distracted by the Scooby Doo marathons…
(Update 12:05am) I got a little over half way done with the bustle. I had the pattern drawn up on graph paper, but not to scale. So I had to scale up the pattern, (which I had already modified from the original, to make it 1/3 again larger plus shorter) on a paper pattern, then cut it out of the fabric (a cotton twill) I had bought today. Then I cut one piece (the only piece to be cut on the fold) backwards. So I re-cut it out, then realized after I marked it all, that the top section where the two top most bones cross, had to be drawn in differently. So I fixed that. Then I sewed the boning channels in. I then made up gathered ruffles (with serged edges) to go over the top two, out of some checked fabric from my stash, and for the bottom, I made a tube, with the cotton check, lined with the twill, that I pressed flat and I’m using for the bottom ruffle, which is actually a row of knife pleats, with one box at the center. I sewed those in, and serged the rest of the pattern pieces.
So I need to sew the pieces together, add grommets for the inside CB lacing. Add a waistband, add the boning in (I made sure to leave the channels open), and finish it off. It should go pretty quickly as long as the little one stays out of the way…yeah.
I’m bummed because tomorrow is Thursday, and there’s no gaming. 
But I’m hoping Friday will go longer so we can get to the next “chapter”. I really want to get them out of Rome by the end of next session…I hope I can do it in an interesting way. I hope to get some “divine” help…
Costume Word of the Week – Buckram
Buckram may have been used in the 16th century as a stiffener for the fronts of bodices along with reed and whalebone, as well as in hats. In the modern day costumer’s workshop, it’s used primarily for millinery purposes such as making the foundations for stiffened hats like the spanish Toque, and fabric covered hats. 
A lot of people now substitute plastic canvas for buckram, but you can’t get the kind of detail and sculptural quality out of plastic canvas. Not to mention, buckram, you can sew through on a sewing machine.
CWotW – Bustle
The bustle was the evolution from the full bell skirt to a more streamlined, narrower skirt that was pulled up and to the back during the late 19th century. Where the bell hoop skirt was taken to extremes with it’s diameter at the hem, so did bustles with their radius at the butt.
Bustle Pads:
