i love this weather

Went for a lovely long walk around the neighborhood tonight with mumsie...it's in the low 60s at the moment! It's forecast to jump back up to 90 this week so I'm going to enjoy the autumn weather while it's here.

The show at Longwood tomorrow night has, mercifully, been postponed to Sunday. Oh good, I get to dress nicely after all! And not get wet! Very important, that part is.

Iron-gall ink does in fact improve my bad attempt at quill writing. Still a lot of finessing to do (I need a knife I can sharpen to a finer edge than the one I currently have; preferably a, you know, pen-knife) but I think I'm not entirely hopeless!

Oh, and sewing stuff. Right. I did get pictures of the Peasanty 18thc Caps, and divvied them up among the Usual Suspects (I'm keeping the Unfortunate Biggins for myself). We have:
( Caps!  )

I also actually sewed something Gettysburg-relevant today (shocking I know). It does not look like much, but there's quite a few hours of work put into that thing! It's my short-hoop petticoat, done as much as I can be without actually finishing the hoop...just will need to be leveled and waistband-ed once said hoop is done (I'm putting off the corsetmaking.com order til finances have recovered a bit from buying schoolbooks).
( Boring petticoat picture and talking about boring petticoat )

So, since I'm off tomorrow with nothing to do, maybe I'll continue to sew productively! Ha ha ha, seems unlikely.

1860s sewing!

But not the rational dress or the starry night masquerade dress! Hahaha oops.

*looks very shifty*

Well, but I'm not feeling the rational dress at the moment, and since FFC just deigned to find my fabric and mail it to me (I only ordered it three weeks ago...), I can't do much on the masquerade dress either.

And I know I really shouldn't be adding to my bin of UFO's (I make no promises of finishing anything new once the semester starts, though of course I'm still going to try to), but dammit, I want to sew what I want to sew, and I don't actually NEED anything new for Gettysburg, when it really comes down to it. I have three cool-weather day dresses, a paletot, a fur-trimmed hood, a bonnet oh no shit I sold that, a wrapper, a hideously ugly nightgown, a ballgown that definitely fits, a ballgown that may or may not fit, and plenty of 18thc dresses if I want to go that route for the Friday night masquerade. Not to mention a stable of unders, shoes, and enough stockings to outfit everyone staying in the cabin with me! (I love modern stockings, and I love historical stockings, and I may have a slight stocking addiction, but I don't care.)

All that to say...if I wanna cut out the horrible chartreuse dress and sew the bodice together, I'm gonna. And I did. ;)