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Almost done with the two sports bras I made up to go with the silver-and-red capri length exercise pants, the ones that are the result of that poll I posted ages ago.

It got super weird yesterday when I was attaching the zipper to the first bra, because I've also been watching Netflix's Ultraman anime adaptation, and somewhere around an inch of stitching the first half of the zipper down it occurred to me that a Color Timer addition would really be fairly minimal effort, especially if I just went for a really long zipper shield and used the Timer's bulk to hold it in place...

(I swear I hadn't been thinking of Ultraman or any form of adaptational cosplay when I started this sewing project but gods damn it now I am. I've still got a fair amount of both the silver fabric and shiny red nylon spandex and if the iridescent silver turns out to be too heavy to wear for actual workout gear I have the URLs of at least two New York City suppliers that primarily sell stretch fabrics. If neither Spandex House nor Spandex World has silver I will be VERY surprised.)

eta: well, I did get into stretch fabric sewing in general, and the silver fabric in specific, because I felt that sometimes I just wanted a superhero outfit. I just wasn't thinking of this one.

Okay, finished.

I tried on all three of my just finished sewing projects this morning. Putting the two sports bras and pair of exercise pants behind a cut. My apologies for any weird camera angles, I'm not good at taking selfies of just my upper torso. Also my apologies for cropping the images as closely as possible, but nobody needs to see how much weight I need to lose.

( First time working with metallic stretch fabric, too. )

I still have to figure out the adjustments to make to the upper cup near the armpit since it gets a little gappy there if I'm not careful, but this project was fundamentally the result of me saying "dammit, I want something stupidly shiny, iridescent, and overstated," and also of me wanting to work towards making my own superhero outfit, so... it's a start, yeah?

Bra pattern is Greenstyle Creations' Endurance sports bra. Leggings are Seamwork's Aires pattern. Silver fabric is from Joann, I think it was holo silver or electric silver; red fabric is shattered glass hologram red from Online Fabric Store. Zippers are molded plastic zippers from Wawak.

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....


just saw an ad on Instagram that said "order your free paint chips today"

brain went IMMEDIATELY to the PSA posters about paint-based lead poisoning in my pediatrician's office

I am now cursed with the image of shrieking contrarians who insist on their freedom to eat as many paint chips as they like because BIG MEDICINE is just trying to regulate their bodies