Songs_and_Sabers

Hey, y'all. I'm Songs_and_Sabers, but feel free to shorten that to Songs. I'm a beginner-intermediate seamstress and hopeful future member of Outpost 42 down in New Zealand; I'll say I'm from Wrea, since ours is a mostly water-based community surrounded by an asteroid belt of archipelagos not too far from the Tatooine of Earth (that would be Australia: almost entirely desert, probably a penal community originally, and everything native wants to kill you). Tomorrow, with any luck, I will be purchasing the deep-red linen necessary to start on Visas Marr's underdress. I'm planning to do the 'Unseen, Unheard' version rather than the KotOR version, purely because I don't have a gathering foot on my sewing machine and darned if I'm willingly signing myself up for two poufy fitted sleeves worth of hand-stitching gathers.... I love Star Wars, I love costuming, I love story-telling and acting, and this is somewhere I can use what I'm good at to do real good in the world. I've wanted to join the 501st since I first learned of it when I was ten or eleven, but I thought the 501st was limited to the UK and USA so I wouldn't ever be able to. I learned better last week, so I'm keen to get involved.