Nothing exciting
It occurs to me that I haven't posted in a while. I don't have much going on. Mostly just trying to keep on top of ridiculous amounts of readings for class and doing house things like the dishes and cooking. I have a pork roast marinating in the fridge right now and planning on making a pulled pork out of it to eat with an apple chutney that I'll make tomorrow. Other nice meals made lately include a broccoli soup and chicken liver pate. (Also chocolate chip cookies, but those were mostly for taking to school.)
Some really intermittent and minute sewing and knitting. My corset cover now has facings at the fronts and bias facings around the neck and one arm. I realized that one of the bias strips I cut just isn't long enough, but I don't have the fabric here, so I have to wait until I'm back home to actually finish it off. But I'm going to get the rest of it done. I managed to motivate myself enough to put on my corset and fit the corset cover, so the darts are marked. I noticed, however, that my bodice pattern for this era is slightly too short waisted, like maybe 5/8", so the corset cover won't fit perfectly, but it'll work. I'll lengthen my pattern a bit before I make any more bodices from it.
My 1864 shawl continues. The rows are getting really long and tough to keep on the needles, but I don't feel like trying to obtain the appropriate circular needles, so it just gets squished onto the needles. I'm looking forward to starting the stripes soon. It's also cool that I'll be using up all the yarn of this maroon DK (maybe like 10 one-oz balls of yarn). It was part of a huge stash of vintage yarns I got from an old lady who was moving out of her apartment whose son knew someone who knew my mom, which is how we got hooked up with the yarn.
No pictures because I decided to leave my camera at home. I got tired to taking it back and forth between the apartment and home. I don't have the software on the laptop and knew I wouldn't feel motivated enough to install it, so I wouldn't be doing any pictures out here. Just seemed easier to leave it at home. I'll take pictures of things when I'm back home for Reading Week.
Some really intermittent and minute sewing and knitting. My corset cover now has facings at the fronts and bias facings around the neck and one arm. I realized that one of the bias strips I cut just isn't long enough, but I don't have the fabric here, so I have to wait until I'm back home to actually finish it off. But I'm going to get the rest of it done. I managed to motivate myself enough to put on my corset and fit the corset cover, so the darts are marked. I noticed, however, that my bodice pattern for this era is slightly too short waisted, like maybe 5/8", so the corset cover won't fit perfectly, but it'll work. I'll lengthen my pattern a bit before I make any more bodices from it.
My 1864 shawl continues. The rows are getting really long and tough to keep on the needles, but I don't feel like trying to obtain the appropriate circular needles, so it just gets squished onto the needles. I'm looking forward to starting the stripes soon. It's also cool that I'll be using up all the yarn of this maroon DK (maybe like 10 one-oz balls of yarn). It was part of a huge stash of vintage yarns I got from an old lady who was moving out of her apartment whose son knew someone who knew my mom, which is how we got hooked up with the yarn.
No pictures because I decided to leave my camera at home. I got tired to taking it back and forth between the apartment and home. I don't have the software on the laptop and knew I wouldn't feel motivated enough to install it, so I wouldn't be doing any pictures out here. Just seemed easier to leave it at home. I'll take pictures of things when I'm back home for Reading Week.