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May. 11th, 2021 08:57 amI've actually been low-key struggling with just... existing the last week or two. I seem to be on an upswing again, so that's good.
Tudor Summer
On Saturday I played around for a few hours with patterns. I appear to have lost my Simplicity ones (I don't remember if they were in the giant box of damaged ones or not) but I did find the copies of both early Tudor and Italian ren from Period Patterns that my late aunt had that I claimed out of her estate. I did decide to go more German, but I wasn't finding a lot in an admittedly casual search and I wasn't really sure what to look for. I'm on a discord server with some very diverse sewists so I asked them, and they confirmed some inklings I had.
V.1 was a straight copy of an Italian ren bodice, and I ended with V.3 which needs the waist raised slightly. I have all of my current wools (all from the same aunt's stash) piled on the end of the table. I'm just debating a "look" vs "accuracy". I have a soft tan-brown even weave that will likely be the underdress. There's a red-and-tan herringbone that I think wants to be pants, and two twills in dark green and teal. Dark colours appear to be more of an upper class thing, and thinking in terms of "days spent tilling fields and shucking corn and chasing chickens and hugging sheep" dark colours just don't feel right. I have some raw silks mostly in blues, and a couple of linens (one burgundy, a few greens). The outer dress might need to wait.
Then I pulled some threads and cut enough linen for a smocked high-neck hemd, and by then it was like 10pm. Since no good decisions are ever made after 10, I called it a night and haven't gotten back to it yet lol.
And y'all, bodies are weird. In between V.2 and V.3 I tried to draft a body block. My measurements were taken as accurately as I could (being alone all day), several times, and my block looked so puny. I compared it to the pattern pieces I'd modified and like, some of the block proportions seriously just didn't work.
Garden
Friday and Saturday were gross and cold. like a few degrees above freezing, with drizzling rain and a fair amount of wind. Late Saturday afternoon, my friend posted a picture of her "greenhouse", with all her seedlings in red Solo cups. Brilliant! I'd been stressing about getting my seedlings out of their little peat plugs, but it's still too cold to plant them outside (there was frost yesterday morning), but we have a TON of Solo and off-brand cups from a party just a week before shutdowns where there was much beer pong and many people in our house.
Sunday dawned sunny and clear and even slightly warm. I spent an hour preparing cups with holes and some kind of filler balls from IKEA, and then repotted my seedlings. Then I spent another hour hoe-ing up the front garden, where I terrorized a bunch of sow bugs (potato bugs or roly-polies), a couple spiders, and one little earthworm. I nearly dug up the lilies bc they were juuuust hiding under the top layer of dirt, but the hostas were safe, having broken above already. Then I tossed down a bunch of sunflower seeds. It was a very satisfying morning.
The downside now being I still need to figure out my container garden situation, because I have three pumpkins and six zucchinis, something like 8 or 9 pepper plants, and one tiny little catnip seedling. Plus I still want to try tomatoes. I really ought to take a drill out and deconstruct the floating deck. That area will be enough for my squashes. Oh, I was thinking of buying a set for a raised bed, but I can just use the floating deck components lol. This will be a next week project, I think.
Tudor Summer
On Saturday I played around for a few hours with patterns. I appear to have lost my Simplicity ones (I don't remember if they were in the giant box of damaged ones or not) but I did find the copies of both early Tudor and Italian ren from Period Patterns that my late aunt had that I claimed out of her estate. I did decide to go more German, but I wasn't finding a lot in an admittedly casual search and I wasn't really sure what to look for. I'm on a discord server with some very diverse sewists so I asked them, and they confirmed some inklings I had.
V.1 was a straight copy of an Italian ren bodice, and I ended with V.3 which needs the waist raised slightly. I have all of my current wools (all from the same aunt's stash) piled on the end of the table. I'm just debating a "look" vs "accuracy". I have a soft tan-brown even weave that will likely be the underdress. There's a red-and-tan herringbone that I think wants to be pants, and two twills in dark green and teal. Dark colours appear to be more of an upper class thing, and thinking in terms of "days spent tilling fields and shucking corn and chasing chickens and hugging sheep" dark colours just don't feel right. I have some raw silks mostly in blues, and a couple of linens (one burgundy, a few greens). The outer dress might need to wait.
Then I pulled some threads and cut enough linen for a smocked high-neck hemd, and by then it was like 10pm. Since no good decisions are ever made after 10, I called it a night and haven't gotten back to it yet lol.
And y'all, bodies are weird. In between V.2 and V.3 I tried to draft a body block. My measurements were taken as accurately as I could (being alone all day), several times, and my block looked so puny. I compared it to the pattern pieces I'd modified and like, some of the block proportions seriously just didn't work.
Garden
Friday and Saturday were gross and cold. like a few degrees above freezing, with drizzling rain and a fair amount of wind. Late Saturday afternoon, my friend posted a picture of her "greenhouse", with all her seedlings in red Solo cups. Brilliant! I'd been stressing about getting my seedlings out of their little peat plugs, but it's still too cold to plant them outside (there was frost yesterday morning), but we have a TON of Solo and off-brand cups from a party just a week before shutdowns where there was much beer pong and many people in our house.
Sunday dawned sunny and clear and even slightly warm. I spent an hour preparing cups with holes and some kind of filler balls from IKEA, and then repotted my seedlings. Then I spent another hour hoe-ing up the front garden, where I terrorized a bunch of sow bugs (potato bugs or roly-polies), a couple spiders, and one little earthworm. I nearly dug up the lilies bc they were juuuust hiding under the top layer of dirt, but the hostas were safe, having broken above already. Then I tossed down a bunch of sunflower seeds. It was a very satisfying morning.
The downside now being I still need to figure out my container garden situation, because I have three pumpkins and six zucchinis, something like 8 or 9 pepper plants, and one tiny little catnip seedling. Plus I still want to try tomatoes. I really ought to take a drill out and deconstruct the floating deck. That area will be enough for my squashes. Oh, I was thinking of buying a set for a raised bed, but I can just use the floating deck components lol. This will be a next week project, I think.
