Thanksgiving break recap
Nov. 29th, 2020 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwI did not do much, reader.
This is entirely fine, as I Needed A Break! I'm...sort of...looking forward to going back to school, although I think it's probably because I can count down the three weeks to Christmas break pretty easily. ;)
But! I did sew a couple of things! Apparently I remained in a Regency sort of mood, as I did find those Redthreaded short stays pretty easily, and worked on them a bit. Not to completion or anything. I did sew all the main seams except the bust gussets - and in my defense, doing them by hand through a ton of layers of drill and sometimes cording is not particularly easy on the hands! I could do finish two seams a day (that's the initial seam, the stitching-the-seam-flat seam, and the covering-the-seam-allowances-with-twill-tape seams) without putting my hands and wrists totally out of commission, so that's what I did. Took pictures, am too lazy to upload and post them. Sad trombone.
(Sometime.)
Also made most of a Regency cap, because I still felt like hand sewing when I wasn't stay-making (just not like hand sewing through six layers of tightly woven fabric!), as I realized I don't actually have a Regency cap to go with this squiggle print dress, and it very much feels like a cap kind of dress. I used one of my Country Wives patterns (British Regency caps), one of the plainer versions. Fear not, it's still got a ruffle! Just have to finish the seams on that.
Also! Buying stuff! Because it's un-American not to shop on Black Friday, right? Online, I hasten to add. Not going out. American Duchess - couple of pairs of 1930s/40s shoes; Orchard Corset - two styles of waist trainers to wear for everyday/work (my posture is rapidly going downhill and it's harder to overeat in a corset!); Yankee Candle - because I like nicely smelly things and it actually knocks out all my second-tier Gifts I Need For People That I Have To Buy For But I Don't Know Intimately Enough To Get a Really Thoughtful Gift.
And (not really Black Friday-related; the date was incidental) I also finally broke down and bought the Persian lamb coat I've been eyeballing on ebay, to use for Furry Warm Things for our winter Edwardian stroll in January. It's a cutter with really awful pictures so I can't tell exactly how damaged it is, but provided it's not actively disintegrating I don't care! Hoping to get a little shoulder capelet and muff out of it, so it's getting hacked up anyway. At absolute worst I'll change up my dress design plans and use it for trim...
This is entirely fine, as I Needed A Break! I'm...sort of...looking forward to going back to school, although I think it's probably because I can count down the three weeks to Christmas break pretty easily. ;)
But! I did sew a couple of things! Apparently I remained in a Regency sort of mood, as I did find those Redthreaded short stays pretty easily, and worked on them a bit. Not to completion or anything. I did sew all the main seams except the bust gussets - and in my defense, doing them by hand through a ton of layers of drill and sometimes cording is not particularly easy on the hands! I could do finish two seams a day (that's the initial seam, the stitching-the-seam-flat seam, and the covering-the-seam-allowances-with-twill-tape seams) without putting my hands and wrists totally out of commission, so that's what I did. Took pictures, am too lazy to upload and post them. Sad trombone.
(Sometime.)
Also made most of a Regency cap, because I still felt like hand sewing when I wasn't stay-making (just not like hand sewing through six layers of tightly woven fabric!), as I realized I don't actually have a Regency cap to go with this squiggle print dress, and it very much feels like a cap kind of dress. I used one of my Country Wives patterns (British Regency caps), one of the plainer versions. Fear not, it's still got a ruffle! Just have to finish the seams on that.
Also! Buying stuff! Because it's un-American not to shop on Black Friday, right? Online, I hasten to add. Not going out. American Duchess - couple of pairs of 1930s/40s shoes; Orchard Corset - two styles of waist trainers to wear for everyday/work (my posture is rapidly going downhill and it's harder to overeat in a corset!); Yankee Candle - because I like nicely smelly things and it actually knocks out all my second-tier Gifts I Need For People That I Have To Buy For But I Don't Know Intimately Enough To Get a Really Thoughtful Gift.
And (not really Black Friday-related; the date was incidental) I also finally broke down and bought the Persian lamb coat I've been eyeballing on ebay, to use for Furry Warm Things for our winter Edwardian stroll in January. It's a cutter with really awful pictures so I can't tell exactly how damaged it is, but provided it's not actively disintegrating I don't care! Hoping to get a little shoulder capelet and muff out of it, so it's getting hacked up anyway. At absolute worst I'll change up my dress design plans and use it for trim...
