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So, there's been a change of costuming plans. I'm putting my fem Fifth Doctor on the shelf for the time being and focusing on a new challenge. I've got a Kwik Sew coverall pattern on order from Amazon (men's shapeless coveralls - it's going to be interesting to see how I can adapt this just to fit my height/weight proportions, let alone adapt it to have the look I want) and about six yards of muslin on order from Joann's. Time to get to work mocking up a usable pattern. Note to self: I probably also need to buy a bunch of tracing paper. Oh, and I also ordered a sample of a clothing grade vinyl that might do for the fabric. I'm not feeling a hundred percent confident that I'll ever see that though, since I never got an email confirmation of my order. I did write down the order conf. number, so I'll have to give them a call tomorrow and make sure nothing went wrong with my request - I probably just entered my email wrong, but you never know.

Things I learned this weekend:

* Simplicity costume patterns are very strong on fantasy and period outfits, not so much on scifi.

* Finding patterns for coveralls in general is difficult. Finding patterns for women's coveralls is nearly impossible. And the one place I did find a women's pattern, didn't have online purchasing. I'd have to leave a message on their answering machine with all my info. Yeah, I don't feel real comfy with that.

* Some people's ideas of practicality amaze me. I came across a thread on a sewing forum, with a woman asking for a coverall pattern. Another woman chimed in with her desire to take such a pattern and make herself a coverall for when she did her barn chores. Seems perfectly reasonable until she said she wanted to make it in silk organza. I'm guessing denim and other such fabrics would be far too rough on her milky white, buttery soft skin. And I'm also guessing that when she says doing barn chores, she means supervising someone else doing barn chores.

The continuing adventures of the Doctor and Peri

Can I vote for Revelation of the Daleks as the worst episode of all time? It's rambling and mostly incoherent, there are characters that make no sense, the Doctor and Peri are both at their worst/most annoying and the cliffhanger at the end of the first episode is the Doctor being crushed by a mortuary statue of himself. And the cliches! A body snatcher complaining that he's "a doctor, not a miracle worker," and the Doctor declaring, "I'm not dead yet!" The costumes and make-up are the eighties at their very worst, although I do rather like the Doctor's blue mourning cape and Kara's whole outfit. The Doctor and others are routinely felled by the slightest of touches.

It's so awful it's almost entertaining for its awfulness alone. Which, coming directly after Timelash, does make me wonder what exactly the show producers had in mind during this particular run of episodes. Were they purposefully making the show as ridiculous as possible?