PSA: If you've ever thought about maybe wanting to upgrading your Flickr account to unlimited (I know a lot of costumers used it in the past), they're having a 25% off sale for the next few days here. Essentially, they're saying the site is still losing money at an alarming rate, and they're trying to keep it alive. I hate to be flouncy and ( Read more... )

*snif snuf snuffle sneezy* Not the worst cold I've ever had, but still bad enough to be drippy-nosed and definitely more wool-gathering in the brain than usual!

At least it waited to show up til after I was done with school! I handed my classes over to a very nice young guy, fresh out of his teaching program and totally ready to tackle 120+ ( Read more... )

So I did find that motivation to try the damn thing on again yesterday! I ended up taking out an awkward wedge from the front of the shoulder strap, rather than adding a CF seam. Not overly attractive, but oh well, I can live with it. And after I fixed that, all I had to do was finish sewing in the lining and hem the skirt. And just like that, not ( Read more... )

I'm too lazy to take off the green thread that's on my machine right now for the stays, wind a bobbin and rethread in the pinkish color I need for  the kirtle, and then rethread with the green to finish off the machine sewing for the stays...so I decided to bone the fronts and sew the stays together this afternoon, so I don't need the green thread ( Read more... )

I did a couple of muslin mockups of a hood today (let's be real, I mean I cut out a couple of rectangles lol) and I think I figured out what I want to do...but I want to read and mull over a couple more people's research before I decide to do what I'm doing. I'm seeing that a simply wired veil/hood edge is probably not actually How It Was Done, and ( Read more... )

Nor is it 1860s-related, although I am quite sure I'm going to keep pushing off Gettysburg sewing til, like, the end of September because it's "so far away!"

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For reasons convoluted and somewhat related to that potential summer job at the Old Barracks in Trenton that I mentioned (that I don't think is really on the table because I've heard nothing ( Read more... )