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dragonlady7Today I had what I think might have been stomach flu. Things are still not entirely as they should be, but I made and ate and kept down some phenomenal, if I do say so myself, pork fried rice made from leftover pork grillins from Friday night.
So I called in to work, and figured I'd make the best of it by seeing if I could bang out the machine parts of another dress for Pennsic.
I'd dyed some raw silk on Friday, experimentally, and it turned out a really nice striking dark faintly-teal blue. (I mixed "Peacock", "Sapphire", and "Alpine" with "Sky" blue, all from Dharma.) I kept looking at it, and i"d measured that I had precisely enough (44" wide, 4 yards) to make myself one of those gored-skirt shaped-bodice kirtles like I usually wear for SCA stuff.
So I did. I cut it out and machined it, including trimming the hem and machine-finishing it and machine-finishing the insides of all the skirt seams, then went over to our house while the guys came to fix the gutter (still house-sitting at Z's mom's) and hand-sewed down the narrow facings I'd pieced from the hem trimmings. I decided to make it side-lacing instead of front-lacing, so I faced the openings that will have eyelets. Guess what? That's twice as many eyelets, approximately, as front-lacing. Bollocks.
But I even have sleeves on it. The only thing left to do is the eyelets, and hand-finishing the neckline, which I still have to decide what I want to do with. (Just turn under and stitch? Put in a facing? Do a decorative contrasting facing and turn it to the outside? What?)
And last night I finished most of the eyelets for the blue linen dress I started in 2009. This morning when stomach cramps woke me at 5, I rose and did the last few eyelets. It's now entirely complete and wearable as-is. I laced it with a bit of ribbon and tried it on, and it's great. I'd've taken a pic to post but I had no shift on underneath it and since it's front-lacing, that was a whole lot of boob, sideboob, underboob, frontboob. Don't think the Internet needs that. Well, it might, but I'm not in the habit of supplying it.
And now I'm exhausted again, despite my lazy day. I am glad I was able to eat; I was getting cranky, and very tired. As it is I wasn't as productive today as i ought to have been. But I *did* finish my tent walls, so at least I'll have someplace to sleep at Pennsic.
So I called in to work, and figured I'd make the best of it by seeing if I could bang out the machine parts of another dress for Pennsic.
I'd dyed some raw silk on Friday, experimentally, and it turned out a really nice striking dark faintly-teal blue. (I mixed "Peacock", "Sapphire", and "Alpine" with "Sky" blue, all from Dharma.) I kept looking at it, and i"d measured that I had precisely enough (44" wide, 4 yards) to make myself one of those gored-skirt shaped-bodice kirtles like I usually wear for SCA stuff.
So I did. I cut it out and machined it, including trimming the hem and machine-finishing it and machine-finishing the insides of all the skirt seams, then went over to our house while the guys came to fix the gutter (still house-sitting at Z's mom's) and hand-sewed down the narrow facings I'd pieced from the hem trimmings. I decided to make it side-lacing instead of front-lacing, so I faced the openings that will have eyelets. Guess what? That's twice as many eyelets, approximately, as front-lacing. Bollocks.
But I even have sleeves on it. The only thing left to do is the eyelets, and hand-finishing the neckline, which I still have to decide what I want to do with. (Just turn under and stitch? Put in a facing? Do a decorative contrasting facing and turn it to the outside? What?)
And last night I finished most of the eyelets for the blue linen dress I started in 2009. This morning when stomach cramps woke me at 5, I rose and did the last few eyelets. It's now entirely complete and wearable as-is. I laced it with a bit of ribbon and tried it on, and it's great. I'd've taken a pic to post but I had no shift on underneath it and since it's front-lacing, that was a whole lot of boob, sideboob, underboob, frontboob. Don't think the Internet needs that. Well, it might, but I'm not in the habit of supplying it.
And now I'm exhausted again, despite my lazy day. I am glad I was able to eat; I was getting cranky, and very tired. As it is I wasn't as productive today as i ought to have been. But I *did* finish my tent walls, so at least I'll have someplace to sleep at Pennsic.
