I made boxer shorts!

I finished the first project I attempted out of Sew Everything Workshop, the Foxy Boxer shorts! Here's me in my new underwear. Couture lingerie, ooh la la.

A while ago I thrifted a whole lot of this coarse woven fabric, white with tiny blue boxes. I'm not sure what it is, but it's a little rough and a little ravelly. I thought it would be a good fit for this project.

I made a lot of mistakes. I must have done something backwards, because one half of the shorts is made with the inside of the fabric out, and the fly placket ended up on the wrong side. I also put the elastic in wrong, because I sewed the placket all the way up into where the casing should be, so I couldn't connect the elastic's two ends, they're just sewed to the fabric, which probably isn't all that secure. But my stitches are neat, especially on the placket, and I lined the pattern pieces up pretty well, which is good since I made these for practice rather than because I wanted to wear them. Good thing, too, since I probably should have picked a thinner elastic so it would stretch a little easier, and the coarseness of the fabric isn't the most comfortable against the skin.

Update on "The Late Mrs. Chadwick" production!

I now have some more concrete information on the upcoming production of my play, The Late Mrs. Chadwick.

The dates of performance will be at 4pm on Sunday, September 30th and 8pm on Saturday, October 6th at the Atlantis Playmakers at 380 Cambridge Street in Burlington. It will be part of a block of short pieces of various types. Tickets will be available for purchase soon, but the website is not updated yet. I will let you know as soon as all the info goes live.

Also, I have assembled a cast and crew! Lenny Somervell and Frances Kimpel will be taking on the roles of Arthur Chadwick and Edwin Shrewsbury respectively, because I think they'd be super-funny cross-cast as stuffy, poncy little Englishmen in tweed suits with moustaches painted on them. The role of Matilda Chadwick, the obnoxious shrieking ghost, will be played by HTP up-and-comer Sam LeVangie, recently seen as Warwick in Margaret and Lavinia in Titus Andronicus. Technical assistance will be provided by Bernie Gabin and Carolyn Daitch. We don't have a lot of tech to be operated at the theater, but we do only have a fifteen-minute slot and as written the play involves a lot of props and a lot of mess. Their job will be to help me figure out how to stage it to keep the spirit of the action while keeping it possible to set up and tear down in those five extra minutes.

I'm really excited. We're all going to be meeting together this Sunday for lunch and talk about logistics. I think this will be a lot of fun, and the end result will be a really funny piece.