A Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Tonight I am NOT sewing like a madwoman! This is a change from the last two nights. Mary's all delivered and set up, as of this afternoon. I did two blog posts, one on a few construction details and one with finished pics, so I won't write out a whole post here. I'll just note down a few, er, not-as-polished things I didn't put on the blog!

Like the fact that I still had six eyelets to sew on the jacket when I got up this morning. I mean, if I couldn't finish six eyelets in three hours I shouldn't have been making this outfit anyway...but still. Six eyelets. But at least I wasn't up (unreasonably) late sewing either of the last two nights, so that's progress!

And Mary's jacket's a bit "lived-in" already...I dropped a strawberry on a sleeve last night and then dripped tea on the front of the skirts this morning. OOPS. (You can't really see either of them, I wouldn't really give someone a stained jacket...but this is why foods and drinks are dangerous while sewing! But then, so are cats, and that didn't stop me.)



And yeah, it might actually kill me to take a not off-centered photo.

And now I finally have a deadline for Mary. This Friday.

AW YEAH DEADLINES

Striped linen dress: Right sleeve is partially sewn on, and left sleeve is sewn together. Didn't have much sewing time today (cleaning) or yesterday (went to the ballet, didn't get home til 11. Stravinsky concerto and Carmina Burana, and AWESOME).

And I got most of my fabric for Mary's outfit in the mail today - now I'm just waiting on the jacket fabric. And the quilted petticoat fabric, but that I'll get at work.

Checked linen for fichu, natural linen for jacket lining, cotton/linen blend for shift, and striped brown linen for petticoat.