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 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. 

 Okay mandie_rw and koshka_the_cat get in here. We need to have a come to Jesus moment. I haven't started a rational dress. It's two weeks Katherine hasn't either and amanda is making bailing noises. The only reason I'm stressing to make one for Gettysburg is group costume fun. If y'all aren't gonna I'm just gonna make a nice easy red wool bodice to go with the skirt I wore last year. Much less stress. But I don't want to let the group down...so are we are are we not. 

 I got home and managed to trace a pattern off the muslin I fitted yesterday. the adjustments were so minor I didn't feel the need to make another. I just added 1/2" to the bottom edge of one and added 1" to the CB where it didn't quite close. 

Now I'm trying to motivate myself to pick up the hem of the alphabet dress...It's been 1/3 hemmed for days...

I forgot to post yesterday. WHOOPS. I was off yesterday but had a hard time getting started. I did eventually get some traction....


( drumroll please )Yes yes I will put it over a shorter hoop. I ordered this exact one again and I'm going to just move the bottom one UP to the final length but I'm not positive what that will be. So I'm doing it over the long one at the moment.
I did not manage to get the waistband on...but I put in a real placket (that never happens). And tonight I got the grommets set for the corset (remember that one...) and pinned on the waistband...currently I don't want to go upstairs and sew it on. 

Aunt flo came today. so I feel disgusting. 

I cut out the skirt pieces for the alphabet dress yesterday. All 52 of them. Which are getting sewn together with french seams. So 104 seams total. or something like that. Possible I mis-mathed. I'm tired.



(I'm greatly amused that it looks like I'm about to make a hoop skirt out of fabric scraps...or neck ties...)

I decided the best way to sew them together was going to be in pairs, then I'd sew the pairs together, etc etc. somehow that made sense. Last night before I left the sewing room I got all 26 initial pairs pinned together.

Then today was my long 12 hour day with the really difficult doctor. oh and did I mention we're currently short a nurse? But my resolution it to sew a tiny amount every day till Gettysburg...I told myself I had to sew 5 seams today. That was all...

I sewed 26! then got four of them ironed, trimmed and pinned for french seams before my shoulder was angry.

I'm either actually inspired by this dress, need stress relief from work, or am panicked about the deadline....
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Well I guess I never did get to a big write up...Amanda did a nice one go read hers...

( All of my pictures...it's a lot...not really )



( Rob took a few at the ball...mostly blurry.. )

And I even did a blog post about it

Vacation is rapidly coming to a close. In fact I spent last night doing homework due on Wednesday and tomorrow I have to be at work stupidly early.

But I used my time watching hw videos to keep mindlessly knitting on my petticoat. I've reached the point where it's all simple knitting and purling so no brain power is required.

Tonight I finished the first skein of orange, I grabbed a second from the basket and discovered there are in fact 7 more...Orange things for everyone!


(12" tiles for scale)



LOOK I made some lacy thing! And some checky thing! I haz a proud