Back up, HOORAY, and a book meme
Yep, Divinebird.com is back up and running again! Hooray!! To celebrate, here's a fun little meme from the always-entertaining jaggedapple:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five friends to do the same!
After the hem and tuck have been stitched, press them well on the wrong side. The hem and tuck finished are shown at No. 9. Sometimes the perforations will mark the fold line of the tuck, in which case follow the directions on the label.
If the tucks are not provided in the pattern they must be allowed for in cutting, and experiment in pinning them in place must determine their position, depth and the space between. Both sides of the skirt should be traced at once with tailors' tacks, as explained. After the stitches are cut and the two sides separated, fold each tuck along the line of the tracing thread and baste. Now measure from the under side of the tuck, toward the bottom of the skirt, the allowed width of the tuck.
From Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques, edited by Kristina Harris.
I tag drakonlily, kling_to_me, duskydawn, esotaria, and skullx. I admit this is technically the THIRD book I grabbed, as the first one was a book of sock knitting patterns with no real sentences on that page, and the other was a collection of Belle Epoque illustrations of women with NO text.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five friends to do the same!
After the hem and tuck have been stitched, press them well on the wrong side. The hem and tuck finished are shown at No. 9. Sometimes the perforations will mark the fold line of the tuck, in which case follow the directions on the label.
If the tucks are not provided in the pattern they must be allowed for in cutting, and experiment in pinning them in place must determine their position, depth and the space between. Both sides of the skirt should be traced at once with tailors' tacks, as explained. After the stitches are cut and the two sides separated, fold each tuck along the line of the tracing thread and baste. Now measure from the under side of the tuck, toward the bottom of the skirt, the allowed width of the tuck.
From Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques, edited by Kristina Harris.
I tag drakonlily, kling_to_me, duskydawn, esotaria, and skullx. I admit this is technically the THIRD book I grabbed, as the first one was a book of sock knitting patterns with no real sentences on that page, and the other was a collection of Belle Epoque illustrations of women with NO text.