1860s sewing!

[mandie_rw]

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. ;)