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[robinsnest]

I made some progress on the jacket today, I really want to finish it tomorrow so I have Friday to make a cloak. And it's COMPLETELY do-able. I got the shoulder straps sewn on one side, I need to try it on and that's not happening right now. I also did something a little out of order and started turning the edges into each other and whipping them down. The fabric was starting to fray like a mo-fo and I didn't want a big unravely mess. So I'm finishing the edges from the CF around the bottom and up to the other CF. Then I'll fit the shoulders finish the rest of neckline and add sleeves. I can 100% do that in one day. Then I'd have Friday to make myself some kind of little cap and a cloak. 

I also emailed a historic farmstead down the street from me. As I ponder what to do with myself a museum studies degree with a public history focus crossed my mind. And getting some hours volunteering will be satisfying AND get me out of the house. I'll probably have to make some new working class 18th century closes. But now that I have a working jacket pattern that hardly seems to bad. Plus I could always make a short gown in like an hour.

Comments

[fiofiorina.livejournal.com]

Sounds very good. Both plans - jacket and cloak.
And yes - volunteer hours may not look like much, but add a lot to a) your resumé, b) usually there comes a return for voluntary work. e.g. someone who you meet there knows somebody who has an appletree and suddenly the museums-girl has a large basked filled with apples, just because. and c) Not really paid work, but one has a coffee a day, some nice experience and yes, one is out of the house.

[madamekat.livejournal.com]

What fabric do you have for the cloak?

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

I have an olive wool and a plum wool, not positive which I'm going to use yet. Or how long it's going to be. I washed them both and they both fluffed up a lot.