Home, home on the suburbs

Well we made it safely home from the Parents. Very uneventful drive. Mostly I slept and Rob drove. He's a good man.

I keep waking up thinking I'm late for work, I over slept, my alarm didn't go off..but then there's no where to be.  At least I'm up, and when I finish this I shall shower and force myself to start working on the day. 

I order the book brickhousewench recommended, found it for super cheap on half.com (I like to write in books, libraries always seem to frown on that habit of mine) it was less than $5.00 shipped so I didn't feel bad about the expense.

I'm also sending in a check today for our local harvest festival. It's only $15.00 a space, I did it last year with the upstairs neighbor. I didn't make a ton, but I made some. And heck at this point it's something to keep me busy and bring in a few bucks right?  

I never got around to ordering fabric for my 18th century jacket so now I'm not positive what to do. blackcat452 has offered me some of her gorgeous fabric, but I feel like I'm becoming a fabric mooch!!  I swung through my local Jomar last week and found na-da and I know Joann's hasn't got a thing. I have some wools I could use, but a solid wool on top and a solid wool on the bottom sounds so boring. I know it's perfectly period, but it just sounds bland. I need some pizzaz! I do still have blue taffeta from my aunt that finally arrived, am I nuts to think about making a polonaise gown? yeah I know I'm nuts..someone smack me...

Germantown Jacket

So the pondering continues on my 18th century jacket for Germantown. 

I had completely forgotten that I had this fabric in my stash. It's a remnant I bought at Joanns back when they owned my soul. I have almost 3 yards. It was original...wait for it...$120.00 for this much! I paid $18.00 for it. I've got it laid out in my sewing room and I'm kind of digging it. I know it's not perfect, hell it's probably polyester. But it may well be cold enough that I appreciate that! Plus it's free and I'm unemployed so that fits my budget marvelously well.



Brown isn't the best color on me, but with a white fichu next to my face I don't think it'll matter too much. Thoughts?

And what you should REALLY be impressed by (and I do mean REALLY) is that I found the pattern I drafted up out of Costume Close Up in 2008! Yup in less than 5 min, and exactly where it should have been. What are the odds of that?!? Now I just need to add a little extra room for my *ahem* growth spurt and I should be good to go.