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*grins* Poolside at FC was pretty neat. The weather was just cool enough for folks in suit to be able to relax and get into their characters... Hopefully, with less of the usual over-heated miseries. :p I was with Kani and we were on the way out (had to prep for the loooong drive back) and he spotted these two enjoying the day. :) Forgive me, but I don't know who the pair are, but they look awesome!
Category Photography / Fursuit
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 1280 x 853px
File Size 800.8 kB
Well, those are easily acquired at any craft or quilting store. If you want to hand-sew a tail, expect it to take about eight hours to do. if you know how to use a sewing machine- it might take you about five, if you're slow at it, like me. My one piece of advice- please, please, do NOT make a "torpedo" tail. Those things are lifeless. Make your pieces with a very strong curve to them and you should get a nice, curvy tail out of it. I think I have some pics of pattern-pieces laid out- I should post them to give folks the idea of what I mean.
The trusty blanket stitch can work wonders! You stitch as normal, but bringing the thread over your needle to form a loop - go through the loop and pull it closed, stitch, loop, repeat. It forms a linked stitch that looks kind of like this along the edge of your material: l_l_l_l I use it pretty much all the time for most small items, especially if the fabric frays a lot. Also, giving your piece enough of a seam allowance really helps in it staying together- I use about a 1/4 of an inch wide for most of mine.
It was so much fun to run around, wearing my tail and head, hanging out with over FIVE HUNDRED other suiters! O_____O Kani had a grand time, too- he got to wear his dragon head for a while (after it dried, that is)... I'm still waiting for Monoceros Studios to post their archive for this year's FC to their web-site- they have seventeen pics of my Kani and me in our heads and tails.
They seem to be going to the land of "push the envelope" in dangerous, potentially bigoted ways. I know it's satire, poking fun at the North American sense of entitlement, our thoughtless bigotry and ignorance and generally stupid decisions, but it goes too far, on occasion. I have to admit, I do get a guilty laugh out of the show, most nights I watch it.
A bit drizzly for part of the weekend, but nice and cool the entire time, so wearing suits outside wasn't quite the swelter-fest it might have been. I still cooked, though, especially in the fursuit parade. Cover my head with anything, and I'll overheat, most days. Puts a crimp in my love for hats, I tell you- most of my collection only gets worn once or twice a year.
Indeed! My Mate keeps saying that it's becasue of my weight (I'm podgy, like most people), but I keep replying- "I've always been like that- I overheated even when I was a skinny kid. I'm from up North- I go out in a t-shirt when it's only 40 or 50F!" But, yeah- full-on costumes, fursuits, the biggest, weirdest most fun things, and I have to melt inside 'em whenever I wanna wear them. Heh.
Well, I admit that the t-shirt thing is only when it's sunny and I'm in the sunny patch. As soon as I hit shade, I'll want long sleeves. *grins* I have taken quick jaunts out to toss the garbage in bare feet and t-shirt when it's 28F or even colder- but that's only for a few seconds. But it sure wakes me up, going through snow in bare paws! Drives my former roomie crazy when I do stuff like that- "Where the frak are yer shoes?" I'm a Canadian, transplanted to southern California, so I'm still learning the fahrenheit system- I know that 32F is 0C and so that 28F is about -5C... I've gone out barefoot in colder weather than that (again, only for a few seconds).
I try to make my outfits fairly light for the reason that I want to be able to run around while wearing them. *grins*
I try to make my outfits fairly light for the reason that I want to be able to run around while wearing them. *grins*
I have a friend in Missouri who does that...except in the negative (that's negative on the Fahrenheit) temperatures. He has no problem with it at all (except maybe his family and friends telling him he is nuts).
I am guessing you live in a desert like environment, since I know in desert areas going from sun to shade can cause the temperature to drop noticeably.
I am guessing you live in a desert like environment, since I know in desert areas going from sun to shade can cause the temperature to drop noticeably.
I have heard California has a very fine climate. How close is Manitoba to Detroit? I spent three years in a suburb of Detroit and remember it hitting some ungodly cold temperatures. I also seem to remember 100+ degree temperatures in the summer, which was miserable with the constant rain. Did it rain a lot in Manitoba?
Wow, dude, you need to look over a map! O___o
[nerd moment] Ok, Manitoba is a province (kind of like a state, only a bit bigger)- Winnipeg is the city I'm from. Your border hits the bottom of my home province- North and South Dakota are right underneath, with Minnesota right beside them to the east. Now keep going on through Wisconsin, then south-east through Illinois (there's a lake in the way, so you actually have to go through an extra state to get to Michigan)- Detroit is under one of the Great Lakes (can't remember which one- it's under the middle biggest)... Um, basically, Detroit is almost nine hundred miles away, man... Their climate is actually going to be a tad more mild than ours because of that ginormous body of water only a hundred or so miles away.
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*chuckles*
[nerd moment] Ok, Manitoba is a province (kind of like a state, only a bit bigger)- Winnipeg is the city I'm from. Your border hits the bottom of my home province- North and South Dakota are right underneath, with Minnesota right beside them to the east. Now keep going on through Wisconsin, then south-east through Illinois (there's a lake in the way, so you actually have to go through an extra state to get to Michigan)- Detroit is under one of the Great Lakes (can't remember which one- it's under the middle biggest)... Um, basically, Detroit is almost nine hundred miles away, man... Their climate is actually going to be a tad more mild than ours because of that ginormous body of water only a hundred or so miles away.
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*chuckles*
Ok, so geography never was my strong suit. Thank you for explaining it so very well. And be glad you are 900 miles from Detroit...its make the phrase "when Hell freezes over" more than mildly ironic, lets just say. I am not sure its more mild, its more predictable since the lake is a regulating factor but it makes the humidity miserable. Its really quite unpleasant since in the summer the heat stick to you like glue and in the winter the cold does the same. Also there are loads of lakes around the city which didn't help neither did the rain every night (something I truly miss living in Texas).
Ugh, I know about high humidity and heat/cold. Oh yes- my joints let me know quite well... We get some pretty crazy extremes, temp wise, though. I've known days where it started out sweltering and the temp dropped to near-freezing in one afternoon- then WHAM! the biggest thunderstorm I ever saw. Scared the crap out of people and wrecked a lot of stuff, mostly people's windows. O___O Got to see St. Elmo's Fire (it's an eerie green), which was pretty neat. Lightening-shows on the Plains are pretty amazing, too- shots of eye-searing light zipping between piled-high clouds and the colours: purples, greys, orange...
We can hit -40 F in winter and +110F in summer, not always dry, either, though it usually is. Can be wonderful or it can be miserable. The wet cold you talk about from around the Lakes? Yeah, i'd be eating painkillers like fuggin' candy, 'cuz my joints react badly to cold dampness... Argh.
We can hit -40 F in winter and +110F in summer, not always dry, either, though it usually is. Can be wonderful or it can be miserable. The wet cold you talk about from around the Lakes? Yeah, i'd be eating painkillers like fuggin' candy, 'cuz my joints react badly to cold dampness... Argh.
Sounds like Michigan weather too. We had one day that you literally could have cut the air with a knife and there wasn't a breeze to be felt for miles. You could smell the storm building despite the clear blue skies. I spent the night in the basement that night (I, unlike my family, have a healthy respect for the power of storms), it was one hell of a storm, went on for hours. It was that icky damp sort of cold afterwards. Don't think there was an St. Elmo's fire but lots and lots of purple lightening.
Storms on the plains sound like storms in the New Mexico desert. You can see for 20 miles easy and there is lightening all around. You can't do the "count between the lightening and thunder" trick, the lightening flashes are all on top of each other so the thunder is really hard to keep track of. The colors and shadows off the mesas are incredible. And the rain is warm and fun to go play in.
I think I am familiar with that particular problem though not to extent you describe. I like the dry atmosphere myself, like when I was visiting New Mexico. Wet cold gets into the bones and doesn't come out. What's bad is that in Texas we get wet cold but without the insulation that is so common place up north so it stays in the houses too.
Storms on the plains sound like storms in the New Mexico desert. You can see for 20 miles easy and there is lightening all around. You can't do the "count between the lightening and thunder" trick, the lightening flashes are all on top of each other so the thunder is really hard to keep track of. The colors and shadows off the mesas are incredible. And the rain is warm and fun to go play in.
I think I am familiar with that particular problem though not to extent you describe. I like the dry atmosphere myself, like when I was visiting New Mexico. Wet cold gets into the bones and doesn't come out. What's bad is that in Texas we get wet cold but without the insulation that is so common place up north so it stays in the houses too.
The plains get some pretty spectacular storms. The last several summers have been really huge blowouts. You talk about the lightening going pretty much constantly? Very similar to back home, too- must have something to do with there being nothing in the way of the wind to slow down the air masses. Imagine the sky growling at you for literally hours... O___o It was neat and disconcerting, all at the same time...
Damp cold is what messes me up, and yeah, if the house isn't insulated well, it's miserable and once you get chilled, nothing seems to warm you back up but a hot shower.
Damp cold is what messes me up, and yeah, if the house isn't insulated well, it's miserable and once you get chilled, nothing seems to warm you back up but a hot shower.
Sounds like the storm we just had last night. Lightening flash on top of lightening flash, with a little hail thrown in for good measure. It was extremely disconcerting because of one building feature that houses in Austin Texas lack, namely a basement...or the utter lack there of. Texas gets tornadoes and the best place to dive is the spice/food closet but its no place to sleep.
Warm bath, personally but a shower works well too. When my family lives in Michigan, we went one better, the previous owner had had a sauna built into the house...that should have been my first warning.
Warm bath, personally but a shower works well too. When my family lives in Michigan, we went one better, the previous owner had had a sauna built into the house...that should have been my first warning.
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