Thanksgiving
Nov. 24th, 2016 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwHappy Thanksgiving to you all, from me and my somewhat-aggressively-autumnal-themed skirt!
Because I woke up considerably earlier than I needed to today, for no reason at all, and so decided to spend 3 hours or so making a very Thanksgiving-y skirt! Well...I guess it could have had turkeys on it, that would be even more Thanksgiving-y. But turkeys are ugly. (We have a pack of 6 that has lately started roaming the neighborhood, and they're hideous. And pesty. I hope someone got the fat one for dinner tonight...) It's another clearance quilting cotton print off the Joann's table that I bought earlier in the year and stashed (I need to stop doing that), and the stupid-simple "two panels of fabric gathered or pleated to a waistband" construction. This one's gathered because the pleats were being stupid.
Besides random pumpkin skirts, I took advantage of my day off and sewed all I could! I did take the mantle to our family holiday gathering, and got about a third of the marabou sewn on, so Not Bad on that front. And in between making the skirt and leaving for dinner, I got the New Castle bonnet pieces wired, bound, and sewed the blocked crown tip on. It's a little bit bumpy but I'm planning on pleating the silk for the tip over top anyway, so whatever. I might sew just a little bit more on the bonnet before bed, but jammies also sounds really nice, so....
Because I woke up considerably earlier than I needed to today, for no reason at all, and so decided to spend 3 hours or so making a very Thanksgiving-y skirt! Well...I guess it could have had turkeys on it, that would be even more Thanksgiving-y. But turkeys are ugly. (We have a pack of 6 that has lately started roaming the neighborhood, and they're hideous. And pesty. I hope someone got the fat one for dinner tonight...) It's another clearance quilting cotton print off the Joann's table that I bought earlier in the year and stashed (I need to stop doing that), and the stupid-simple "two panels of fabric gathered or pleated to a waistband" construction. This one's gathered because the pleats were being stupid.
Besides random pumpkin skirts, I took advantage of my day off and sewed all I could! I did take the mantle to our family holiday gathering, and got about a third of the marabou sewn on, so Not Bad on that front. And in between making the skirt and leaving for dinner, I got the New Castle bonnet pieces wired, bound, and sewed the blocked crown tip on. It's a little bit bumpy but I'm planning on pleating the silk for the tip over top anyway, so whatever. I might sew just a little bit more on the bonnet before bed, but jammies also sounds really nice, so....
