It was very nice for a few days, but it's back to LJ the world now...these dresses won't sew themselves, you know! Actually, I have been sewing for the past couple days. For the cruise, which the mater, sister and I leave for on Jan. 9. Because I love dresses and I must have more of them. Yes. Anyhow.
Went to evil Jo-ann's and got fabric for 4 dresses (and a couple patterns, because they were on sale, and I'm totally in love with 50s dresses right now) two days ago, because both my mother and sister got a couple new dresses for the formal dinners on the ship (because who are we kidding, I never miss an opportunity to play dress-up), and I am too much of a snob an individual to buy a formal in a store. So my mom was lovely enough to pay for the fabric for said couple of dresses. Well, yes, four is more than a couple. Shhh.
So I got fabric for two Nice Dresses for Formal Dinners on Cruises or Whatever (that 1935 Vintage Vogue pattern I mentioned before will be one of them), and two more casual dresses. I'll take pictures as I finish them. (no, really. Really.) Meant to sew on one of them today, but I was out most of the day today, so zero sewing progress so far.
Other Winter Break Sewing: For the gift exchange with my TCNJ peeps, I was lucky enough to get the one who told me that as soon as she has money from Christmas, I can start helping her get into 18th-century costuming. However, little does she know, since we took measurements for stays for her about a month ago, she's going to get a pair of stays as a gift. And because I, oddly, really really like to make stays, this works out well for everyone.
Other than cruise-dress-sewing and cutting out the pieces for M.'s stays, I haven't been doing much, just kind of puttering around to various projects, sewing a little, then wandeing off to something else.
Oh, I know, though, I did come home and pet my taffeta and it is lovely and makes me far happier than any totally sane person would be about the appearence of fabric. I also got a yard of silk/cotton voile in the order, because I have vague plans for 18thc kerchiefs/caps/what-have-you, but it is so very nice that it is putting evil, evil plans in my head. These will be discussed at a later date, because my eyes are tired of looking at the computer screen (it took a while to catch up on 3+ days of not reading my f-list!).
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