[dollie] The wind beneath my wings

I'm in the midst of a project for another hobbyist, and I have to admit, it's stretching my skills in ways that I rarely experience when doing stuff solely for myself. I suppose I'm inherently lazy, and I like to stick to what I know. Yet when someone else asks me, "hey, could you make this?" my instinctive response is, "I dunno, let's find out!" And most of the time I can puzzle it out.

I'm mainly self-taught, with some help from others in the hobby who were kind enough to let me rider their coattails for a while. I'm sure that there are easier ways to do things than the methods I routinely use, but for me, part of the enjoyment of the hobby is the discovery process. Using my brain to figure out how to make the image in my imagination work on the small plastic body in front of me.

Corsets? Sure! Rolled "elven" collar? You betcha! Slashed sleeves? Bring it on!