My day today was saved by wonderweb.

I was sewing a banner for The Missability Radio Show – this one is on silk velvet – and when I tried to put eyelets in, the whole thing kind of disintegrated and the eyelet just fell out of a large hole. Wonderweb allowed me to patch the area and put an eyelet into that. The wonderweb also means the seam I destroyed trying to put in the eyelet won’t tear all the way along the banner.

I wonder about this banner… the red silk velvet does look amazing, but I have sewn polycotton with an image transfer on it ONTO the red silk velvet, and all the different fabric styles seem to pull the material in every way you can imagine. If I can’t live with the puckering and the odd drape of the fabric, I will just pin my amazing Missability Radio Show badges all over it to cover the fact.

The velvet banner has a sort of punk DIY meets showbiz cheese feel about it, which I guess reflects overall the flavour of the show. I have the dottiest studio in the universe after this evening’s sewing; every surface is covered in some kind of polka-dotted fabric. I shall take photos tomorrow.

…and in other news, the technical side of The Missability Radio Show appears to be coming together really well. I did some tests today with Mark re: using a livefeed from a webcam and we decided the resolution is too low. Sometimes lo-fi is just crap.

Here I am testing out the webcam. You can see the stick, you can see the shadow of the stick, but the webcam image doesn’t show the stick!! Which would be a disaster being as the whole purpose of projecting an image is to bombard everyone who walks into The Drama Studio with extremely amazing, totally designed walking sticks.

So we have redesigned the lighting and live-feed plans to now include a high quality camera pointing directly down onto the middle of the polka-dot table where walking stick with cosies shall be placed and examined and discussed and considered by the talented and wondrous Oxford Bluestockings.

An overhead camera pointing directly down onto the working-area/walking-stick will be so much more Blue-Peter and a bit less shopping channel.