Threads and Wires

It seems quite appropriate that the yarn that I ordered on August 31st, takes two weeks to be delivered. While I got standard shipping, as I didn't need to rush the order, it seems a little extreme that 5–7 business days means two weeks, no? Though I can just picture the large yarn warehouse with sweet old ladies receiving the hand-written order slip, putting their wee kittens down, and walking down long isles to find your treasured wooly delights, only to return to their chair to find that their kitten has made a delightful disaster out of their own project. So, then, they spend the next three days re-rolling their skeins of yarn instead of putting yours in a box with a shipping label.

Though, my yarn should arrive tomorrow, just in time for a DMV trip for Ramon. As he is finishing his huge race-car building project, I have offered to go to the DMV to see if I can acquire temporary registration for his now insanely fast beast—at least, insanely fast once he finishes it on Tuesday, we hope (both for Tuesday, and that it is actually insanely fast). Ramon has been working on his huge project for a year and a half, and I am so proud, and excited for him to have the car on the track. I remember when he was just at the very beginning of his project, where I am now, and he spent hours pulling out parts, and developing a new wiring harness.

Well, wires now threads, I need to come up with a better plan of attack for my own project, and I think that I might need to bite the bullet and buy some good fabric, instead of just "test" fabric, to actually start making garments. I have my straight skirt pattern figured out, and I have been working on drafting my template bodice pattern, based on my measurements, but I have no good materials to work with after I am done with the drafting. So, what do I do? Wool at the Fabric Discount Warehouse in the city is really nice quality, and starts at about $25 a yard, but I feel bad for even buying a $2 cup of coffee on unemployment. I want to get some cheap wool-like fabric to test further, but then, am I just throwing money down the drain? What if I get the wool, go for it, and it comes out like crap, even though I have made muslins? I don't want to be wasteful ... but which route leaves the smallest financial and material footprint?

Maybe I will find my answers tomorrow at the DMV ... though, not likely. I think I may put off the DMV until after I receive my yarn, because at least then I will have something to work on while waiting my life away in the infamous line.