It was a fun afternoon, but my stays...

Let's just say it was good to get out of them!

We only found out yesterday that Tunstall was holding a Jubilee Cavalcade today, with loads of folk in costume.  I made a couple of calls, and got us shoehorned in, and ravenrigan and I went and had fun!

( Parading up and down... )

I got busy too!

Having got up at stupid o'clock this morning (at least partly because the back of my head was warring with the pillow while the front was warring with my face!), I got on with some of the essential sewing until I was ready for breakfast - at about 6:30!  I then dithered about sewing on the occasional popper while answering emails and ( Read more... )

ravenrigan and I spent Saturday at Bluewater, at the Glow event halls, where there was a lovely mini version of the Knitting and Stitching show, complete with a display of Downton Abby costumes...

( I took a few photies... )

I wish I could sew them this well!  Ah, see, if I sewed nothing but buttonholes by hand for seven hours a day  for 20 years, I might get this good!

I recently got hold of the last uniform my father had.  It was hanging in the back of Mum's wardrobe, and had been since he died in 1982.  I think she just couldn't quite ever let it go.  Well, I can't ( Read more... )

What do you get when you pay £150 for a from frock to be 'made for you' off the internet?

You get one that fits like this!

( The Nightmare! )

Prom frocks!  I thought we'd never have to suffer this horrible American school habit, but we seem to have been infected with the School Prom Virus over the last few years.  And, this being Merry England, kids are trying to do it on the cheap.  So they look on the interwebs and find these cheap as chips jobs on supposedly American sites, and buy ( Read more... )

Today I get to ( Read more... )