I make a thing

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I am.  Right now I'm working on the mockup.  I sewed my first four darts ever (to my remembrance) and certainly the first four that I actually added to a pattern I drew from another similar article of clothing and made changes to in order to make it fit better.  Right now it's not in a 'try onable" state, because it's FULL OF STRAIGHT PINS... But before, I slouched it over my shoulders just to see how the various parts would hit, and it looks like it's working so far. Right now I'm just basting it together, so before I actually do that all the way around, I think I'm going to baste all the sides together just so I can see for real how it's going to lie.  I don't want to wait until after I"ve already enclosed everything because the sides are normally the LAST thing you sew, and I don't want to do all that work just to find out that I need to undo everything and make adjustments..  if it works, I might just sew it regular instead of basting it, because that would allow the mockup to become an actual THING, because it would mean my pattern is already correct and I can just continue on to the project. But since I cut all this fabric and it's not awful either (even though it was bought to waste on trying out the pattern and tweaking it if necessary) I wouldn't be mad if this ended up being a thing too. Lol

ETA:  I meant to also say that I wrapped some more presents before I started fooling with this thing again.  So I'm caught up with that again. Until the next things arrive. Lol