mandie_rw: (1860sgburg)
mandie_rw ([personal profile] mandie_rw) wrote2013-11-02 11:33 pm

1860s, all the time

That's what it had BETTER be for the next three weeks; I haven't got the time to be wandering off into anything else!

Yesterday I did manage to tack down the facing (or tack up, really), pin the third stripe on, and cut out the buckram pieces for a bonnet. Bonnet? Yes. [livejournal.com profile] hiraimi, [livejournal.com profile] dragoneyes19, and I are doing an exchange of skills. I'm making 1860s bonnets for both of them for Gettysburg, and Robin's knitting me an 1860s sontag, while Alice makes me a fancypants Regency reticule (not for Gettysburg!).

What do you think the odds are that I still don't actually trim my own bonnet...

And back to the paletot; tonight I sewed on the third stripe, and am currently working on the fourth, which I am determined to finish before I go to bed!