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Right - new blog post. Yesterday was Trinity Sunday, and a five-hour rehearsal which I was unfortunately unable to be at. Because I was busy working. From what I've heard it was very productive - well done y'all.

Anyway, I also used yesterday to give out some costumes that need to be finished. I feel a bit mean getting people to do it, but I don't think everyone understands how long things take to make. For example, those simple pink leotards take about an hour for an experienced, skilled sewer to do. And that's without cutting or measuring. For me, they take closer to two hours. And thats the quick and easy stuff. So you see I'm spending several hours night doing this. And that's the reason I wasn't at school on Friday - I took a whole day off to sew. Of course, my Mum is helping a lot, as she is a lot quicker with the machine, and knows a lot of handy tricks. However, all the designs, pattern collation and fabric selection was done by me. Fortunately, most of the difficult stuff is over with now, and I just have to work on simpler things. The only hard part is adjusting patterns to fit people who are very different from the sizes I have access to.

So that was just an update on the kind of stuff I'm doing. I know I don't do much at rehearsals except for watching and thinking, but there's a lot of stuff I'm getting done at home.

And now you've seen a few of the costumes. I've checked most of them, and they all seem to fit (although there are like twenty more that need to be made), which is insanely good for me as I don't really have enough fabric to re-do anything. However, if anyone has any MAJOR problems please approach me, I'd rather know than have you sulking about something. But please please please don't make any changes to ANYTHING without talking to me about it, okay?


Anyway, that's all I have time for! See you guys later!

EDIT:: Memo to self. Look up role of costume designer in theatre, also role of costumes in expressionism, for presentation.