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robinsnest) wrote2019-10-09 11:17 am
robinsnest) wrote2019-10-09 11:17 am
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finally knitting weather
it's beautiful and breezy in the 60s here. I have all the windows open and am enjoying a cup of tea and a cozy blanket. It's DIVINE. It's perfect knitting weather, which means I shall now never sew anything for Gettysburg but Amanda will have a shawl. And I have a knitting stretch goal of knit undersleeves. I've been admiring a pair Prior Attire sells and I think I can make my own...maybe. I'm probably 1/3 of the way done with the body of the shawl? I should measure how big I'm actually going to make it and math.
So instead of sewing lets talk about my outfit plans....
Thursday- we arrive, wear civvies. Possible I'll sit around in my wrapper if I"m REALLY motivated or Amanda does it and I wanna be cool.
Friday Day- Some form of day dress. There's a few options. My black velvet bodice with my orange check ballgown skirt, The blue plaid dress I'm kidding myself that I'm going to make...
Friday Night- ballgown. I have ZERO inspiration for this one. I could retrim my orange check ballgown but I really wasn't loving it last year so I think I'd like to make a solid ballgown bodice? maybe? I just felt meh in my last one and I'm honestly toying with my alphabet dress because I just LIKE It more. I dunno. someone inspire me.
Saturday day- Rational dress. This is actually started, barely. I mocked up and cut out the dress portion and have cut out the pants. I'm planning to sew pants first as they sound hardest.
Saturday night- Dinner outfit. I WANT to make a bodice to go with my plaid dayskirt that I've worn the last few years. I also could make sleeves for the orange ballgown bodice and make that a dinner outfit, I've seen at least 3 or 4 examples of that.
I was pondering something like this but with a low square neckline? it's a similar proportion to my plaid and I could add some skirt decoration in this mythical world where I get 10x the amount done. OR i make it like this and wear it on Friday and do the ballgown/bodice version for dinner. That may be more realistic than making a new blue dress, not that the skirt is the part that's hard...
I think I might need to take one or two PTO days in November to plan to give myself some sewing time, because bare minimum I need rational dress, a dinner bodice, and giant ballgown question mark....for now I'm enjoying sitting on the couch knitting.
So instead of sewing lets talk about my outfit plans....
Thursday- we arrive, wear civvies. Possible I'll sit around in my wrapper if I"m REALLY motivated or Amanda does it and I wanna be cool.
Friday Day- Some form of day dress. There's a few options. My black velvet bodice with my orange check ballgown skirt, The blue plaid dress I'm kidding myself that I'm going to make...
Friday Night- ballgown. I have ZERO inspiration for this one. I could retrim my orange check ballgown but I really wasn't loving it last year so I think I'd like to make a solid ballgown bodice? maybe? I just felt meh in my last one and I'm honestly toying with my alphabet dress because I just LIKE It more. I dunno. someone inspire me.
Saturday day- Rational dress. This is actually started, barely. I mocked up and cut out the dress portion and have cut out the pants. I'm planning to sew pants first as they sound hardest.
Saturday night- Dinner outfit. I WANT to make a bodice to go with my plaid dayskirt that I've worn the last few years. I also could make sleeves for the orange ballgown bodice and make that a dinner outfit, I've seen at least 3 or 4 examples of that.
I was pondering something like this but with a low square neckline? it's a similar proportion to my plaid and I could add some skirt decoration in this mythical world where I get 10x the amount done. OR i make it like this and wear it on Friday and do the ballgown/bodice version for dinner. That may be more realistic than making a new blue dress, not that the skirt is the part that's hard...
I think I might need to take one or two PTO days in November to plan to give myself some sewing time, because bare minimum I need rational dress, a dinner bodice, and giant ballgown question mark....for now I'm enjoying sitting on the couch knitting.