still sneezy
Oct. 9th, 2019 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwAlthough I wasn't reliant on cold medicine for survival today, so yay. (I maintain my usual good immune system comes from a lifetime of nail-biting. My nurse friend backs me up on this.)
Still slightly too stupid to do fittings (maybe tomorrow?) so dragged the bag of Unfinished Horrible Chartreuse Dress back out of the UFO bin. I started it for last Gettysburg and didn't get very far - basic day bodice with sleeves sewn on the wrong way (note to self: fix those), and skirt panels sewn together. I still have a good couple yards of fabric left, so I figured I'd make a dinner bodice to go with it as well, because hey, why not? I in fact need a dinner bodice more than a new day bodice right now!
(I know the girls won't throw me out if I don't get a dinner dress done for Saturday night, but I'd like one! Plus...this is one of the things I could sew today that required low brainpower, so.)
All I actually got around to was making a hem facing (from some very attractively sun-faded pink cotton) and stitch it on about 2/3 of the way around the hem, but that's progress, right? And I can probably get the rest of that sewn on tomorrow if I don't let chatting with frendz online distract me!
OH I also got my chunk of antique lace in the mail, and it looks perfectly nice laid over my emerald silk, yay. And it is also VERY stinky. Just old-lady-house miasma, but damn. I'm going to have to let it air out for a while (and keep kitten claws AWAY FROM IT) before I want to work with it. Phew. Stanky.
Still slightly too stupid to do fittings (maybe tomorrow?) so dragged the bag of Unfinished Horrible Chartreuse Dress back out of the UFO bin. I started it for last Gettysburg and didn't get very far - basic day bodice with sleeves sewn on the wrong way (note to self: fix those), and skirt panels sewn together. I still have a good couple yards of fabric left, so I figured I'd make a dinner bodice to go with it as well, because hey, why not? I in fact need a dinner bodice more than a new day bodice right now!
(I know the girls won't throw me out if I don't get a dinner dress done for Saturday night, but I'd like one! Plus...this is one of the things I could sew today that required low brainpower, so.)
All I actually got around to was making a hem facing (from some very attractively sun-faded pink cotton) and stitch it on about 2/3 of the way around the hem, but that's progress, right? And I can probably get the rest of that sewn on tomorrow if I don't let chatting with frendz online distract me!
OH I also got my chunk of antique lace in the mail, and it looks perfectly nice laid over my emerald silk, yay. And it is also VERY stinky. Just old-lady-house miasma, but damn. I'm going to have to let it air out for a while (and keep kitten claws AWAY FROM IT) before I want to work with it. Phew. Stanky.
