at least it's something
Jul. 30th, 2019 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwI stuck a big old rose on my hat today, and now I feel much better about it, so I declare it Done. I may or may not have worn it around the house today for a couple of hours, to test out exactly where it needed to be pinned to stay on my head...
What else? Uh...well, I did laundry and actually folded and put it all away? On the same day! (This is still a rare enough accomplishment to be noteworthy.) I also stabbed myself a whole bunch of times while trying to sew ribbon over the boning channels on the corset, which is why I got mad enough to sew crap to the hat instead. Sometimes your fingers are just not having it...
The Imaginary and I spent the day in Cape May yesterday, which while very fun and all that (we climbed both the WW2 tower and the lighthouse, so very excercise-y too) meant that I sewed zilch yesterday. I'll still count it as research for my eventual shore trip in costume. Assessment: while I do enjoy Cape May day tripping, it's very crowded, and very commercial, and while I still like to have stuff to do on a shore trip, I prefer someplace that feels less frenetic. I know all shore towns in Jersey are crawling with people in the summer, but some are a bit less crawl-y! Also some places you can still get a room for under $200/night...Cape May is not one of those places!
My sewing day progress on Sunday was mildly helpful - not really as much as I should have gotten done, but not too terrible. Except that I sewed trim on the jacket that, in retrospect, I don't like, so I'll have to pick that off. You'd think I'd have learned from the skirt... I used a narrower strip of silk on the jacket, and thought that would fix what I didn't like about the skirt trim, but it seems not. Oops. I didn't HATE it, it just felt...off. Narrow ribbon or braid will be better, I think. And honestly, after a decade and a half of costuming, I trust my instinct when something feels "off"! So, most likely no trim for the first wearing. Which is okay! I'd rather be untrimmed than be regretfully trimmed, LOL.
What else? Uh...well, I did laundry and actually folded and put it all away? On the same day! (This is still a rare enough accomplishment to be noteworthy.) I also stabbed myself a whole bunch of times while trying to sew ribbon over the boning channels on the corset, which is why I got mad enough to sew crap to the hat instead. Sometimes your fingers are just not having it...
The Imaginary and I spent the day in Cape May yesterday, which while very fun and all that (we climbed both the WW2 tower and the lighthouse, so very excercise-y too) meant that I sewed zilch yesterday. I'll still count it as research for my eventual shore trip in costume. Assessment: while I do enjoy Cape May day tripping, it's very crowded, and very commercial, and while I still like to have stuff to do on a shore trip, I prefer someplace that feels less frenetic. I know all shore towns in Jersey are crawling with people in the summer, but some are a bit less crawl-y! Also some places you can still get a room for under $200/night...Cape May is not one of those places!
My sewing day progress on Sunday was mildly helpful - not really as much as I should have gotten done, but not too terrible. Except that I sewed trim on the jacket that, in retrospect, I don't like, so I'll have to pick that off. You'd think I'd have learned from the skirt... I used a narrower strip of silk on the jacket, and thought that would fix what I didn't like about the skirt trim, but it seems not. Oops. I didn't HATE it, it just felt...off. Narrow ribbon or braid will be better, I think. And honestly, after a decade and a half of costuming, I trust my instinct when something feels "off"! So, most likely no trim for the first wearing. Which is okay! I'd rather be untrimmed than be regretfully trimmed, LOL.
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