mandie_rw | (no subject)

As predicted, I now regret my depressing post, and we shall pretend it never happened, ok? Ok.

I managed to haul my butt out of bed early enough this morning to sew a nice bit of stuff...actually, it was a very windy thunderstorm, knocking things over that went THUNK very loudly, throughout the house. Well, that works as well as an alarm!

So I finished trimming my bonnet, which naturally means the chance of rain will instantly go up to 80%, because that's just how this year works for events. Also I sewed the bodice and skirt of the dress together. Oh, right, did I mention I decided to make a dress? I decided to make a dress. Not out of my nice printed cotton (duvet cover, 'hem), because I decided this on Sunday night and a LOT of this dress is machined. I had a little over 4 yards of mint green lawn (which you may remember from my 1920s summer dress a few years ago) that sounded like it would make a nice summer dress. The shade of green is maaaaaybe a little dubious (from my limited survey of 1830s, green doesn't seem to be terribly popular, and I haven't seen this shade at all), but it looks nice with a peachy pink bonnet, plus it's thin cotton (hello, June), so I don't care. :D

Day dresses with short sleeves aren't very common by the 1830s, but Adrienne was collecting a few examples for Alice, when she was considering short sleeves, and a very few of them pop up. I really liked the idea of this one, with sheer gloves (or mitts? I think they're gloves but I very much like mitts). It's probably not your standard "day dress" (no hat), but I see steps and bushes, so she's definitely outside! Eh, enough justification for me. And then I get to make long mitts!

...Plus, with 4 yards, there's no way I could have had long sleeves anyway! Well, maybe if I took out the half-width of fabric from the skirt (it's 2.5 panels of 58" wide), but I would consider that too narrow for a sheer.