Plans!

I'm feeling all inspired and stuff :D (ok and a little procrastinate-y too, because making lists distracts from committing to decisions!)

Short term:

• ruffle on white petticoat
  
• quilted petticoat from much more reasonable fabric than my currently uncompleted one (what am I supposed to do with quilted denim?!)
  
• riding habit skirt (erm, where did my fabric run off to?)
  
• habit shirt (must discover how much I can salvage of the old one)
  
• Costume Close Up apron with the duvet cover fabric (omgsopretty)
  

Medium term:

• the rest of the riding habit
  
• a gown for the Regency ball in September (that I'm not sure that I am going to?)
  
• skirt and jacket (or maybe a round gown) with my shiny Williamsburg fabric that's coming home soon :D
  
• long Regency stays. M convinced me to try the busk.
  

Long term:

• spoon busk corset (the de Gracieuse?)
  
• hats hats hats
  
• seriously hats. Can I adapt buckram frame techniques to plastic mesh? LET'S FIND OUT.
  
• a pair of sacques. Do I start with the cotton one before tackling the silk one? Probably. I'll be less sad if I mess up the cotton one (free fabric from mum's stash) vs silk ($50 US cuz it was on sale and I can't just pop back into the store to get more >.>)
  

Enough procrastinating. Let's get stitching!

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I ripped the panels for the white petti. I was wrong, the fabric is NOT the same. The extra metre I bought is stretchy taffeta :/ But the sheen and hand is virtually identical, so I proceeded ahead. It didn't rip evenly. The cut ends were off grain, so two ripped ones ended up at 10" and 9" wide, and the cut ones varied from 9" to 11". I discovered this after having done 2 panels (one oddball and the 10"). So I ripped the rest to the 9" width and carried on! The top part of the ruffle is more of a small triangle rather that a curve, and I suspect that the original had a perfect 1" curved pinking tool used rather than modern pinking shears (no shit, right? lol). My hand was pretty sore when I was done. Then I got really lazy and took a nap and didn't get back to sewing it today.

I decided what to do with the purple striped silk! I want to make this redingote. (hearts everywhere!) I thought I could MAYBE squeeeeeze it out 4 yards of 45" wide, but it turns out the fabric is just shy of 55", which will be a lot easier to work with. Of course, i've never made a redingote and I'm not 100% sure where to start (with a mock up, naturally), but I'm excited to tackle it. I can see why people prefer working with silk, it has a beautiful hand and sounds delicious. I shake my fist at you, Canadian suppliers.

I cast on mitts this evening. I enjoyed the sewn ones so much, but knitted ones will be more useful to me :) I picked up a cape, I need arm warmers!