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mandie_rwHello hello! Long time no post! I do still read (to, ahem, avoid doing other things I ought to be doing, mainly), but my daily minutiae boil down to go to school, go to Rutgers, go to work, make time for Imaginary Boyfriend shenanigans. Repeat repeat repeat.
But! This week I am on Rutgers spring break so I have time to do other things (haha not really. but I'm going to anyway), and I taught my first lesson this morning, so I'm in a good mood. (While definitely not brilliant, it wasn't irredeemably terrible either, so I take it as a win.) So you get a boring update!
In terms of sewing-related things...
- Brown linen transitional stays: still working on those back pieces. I got to the point in the semester where my in-between class time was WELL I NEED TO SKIM THIS READING I DIDN'T ACTUALLY DO, so those have mostly fallen by the wayside! I do still have them out, and sew a line or two when I really just need to hand sew for twenty minutes...but I doubt they'll be done for the picnic-if-it-still-happens. Which is fine! They were never a deadline project.
- Have cut out and started a couple of vintage dresses and skirts (and then wandered away, whoops). Main problem with that is that we've had about five different seasons over the past month, so when it was really cold I cut out a plaid flannel skirt, then it shot up to 70 and I made half of a polka-dot cotton broadcloth dress, and then it got cold but not very cold and I decided I should make a lightweight wool suiting skirt instead...you get the idea. I am super sick of all my school-appropriate winter clothes though, so I'd really like at least a nod to spring again in the weather!
- Related: I have accumulated a TON of fabric for modern dresses that I'm starting to admit I will probably never use. I mean, eventually, maybe? But not much of it is irreplaceable! Not to mention I keep buying rayon challis-type fabrics, and I hardly ever want to make dresses for which rayon challis is appropriate. So at some point I'm going to do a fairly ruthless stash cull and post it here (and maybe facebook later but I hate facebook so it might just get etsy-d at "pays for shipping supplies" prices)! Some more "historical" fabrics, too, although don't get too excited about silks or wools! Some silks...but you can't have my wools. I'm not going out of the hobby, so you can't have my wools! *clutches* ;) Probably not til May when the semester's over, unless I find myself with a chunk of time and nothing to do. (Haaaaaaaa.)
Other than that? Well, I should start a paper before work tonight, but dammit I want a nap...
But! This week I am on Rutgers spring break so I have time to do other things (haha not really. but I'm going to anyway), and I taught my first lesson this morning, so I'm in a good mood. (While definitely not brilliant, it wasn't irredeemably terrible either, so I take it as a win.) So you get a boring update!
In terms of sewing-related things...
- Brown linen transitional stays: still working on those back pieces. I got to the point in the semester where my in-between class time was WELL I NEED TO SKIM THIS READING I DIDN'T ACTUALLY DO, so those have mostly fallen by the wayside! I do still have them out, and sew a line or two when I really just need to hand sew for twenty minutes...but I doubt they'll be done for the picnic-if-it-still-happens. Which is fine! They were never a deadline project.
- Have cut out and started a couple of vintage dresses and skirts (and then wandered away, whoops). Main problem with that is that we've had about five different seasons over the past month, so when it was really cold I cut out a plaid flannel skirt, then it shot up to 70 and I made half of a polka-dot cotton broadcloth dress, and then it got cold but not very cold and I decided I should make a lightweight wool suiting skirt instead...you get the idea. I am super sick of all my school-appropriate winter clothes though, so I'd really like at least a nod to spring again in the weather!
- Related: I have accumulated a TON of fabric for modern dresses that I'm starting to admit I will probably never use. I mean, eventually, maybe? But not much of it is irreplaceable! Not to mention I keep buying rayon challis-type fabrics, and I hardly ever want to make dresses for which rayon challis is appropriate. So at some point I'm going to do a fairly ruthless stash cull and post it here (and maybe facebook later but I hate facebook so it might just get etsy-d at "pays for shipping supplies" prices)! Some more "historical" fabrics, too, although don't get too excited about silks or wools! Some silks...but you can't have my wools. I'm not going out of the hobby, so you can't have my wools! *clutches* ;) Probably not til May when the semester's over, unless I find myself with a chunk of time and nothing to do. (Haaaaaaaa.)
Other than that? Well, I should start a paper before work tonight, but dammit I want a nap...
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Date: 2018-03-22 03:05 am (UTC)I remember what that was like. But it's alright, at least you let us know you're still out there!
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