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[totchipanda]

I solved my costume dilemma! Yay! Whilst browsing the internets today for 18th century jackets (as you do), I found a post on a Belgian painter who did "common" scenes. Delightful! Look at all those mismatched outfits! The Interior of a Forge was particularly intriguing because she's wearing a dark green jacket and light-coloured petticoat. Excellent! Then I thought about some fabric I have, 2m of a wool-look polyester that I call "cream" but is really closer to "butter" that I've had my eye on for petticoats since I bought it and had just never picked which era I wanted to make it in. I may need to look at dulling the colour a bit, I recall it being quite bright (it also wouldn't match anything I currently have in the works). I even touched it this past weekend, but as the organization of my apartment is going to be a very slow, ongoing process that may take me all year, it's still in a box, and that box is at the bottom of a pile that I'm unwilling to dig out tonight. Soon. I'm still going to catch up on my HSF'13 challenges, and it will fit nicely into one of them :) I'm a little worried it will look out of place with a green linen jacket, but I will go ahead with it anyway. I could use a wool-like under-petticoat for something else, and keep my eye out for a more appropriate "matching" fabric to make a jacket/dress out of too.

Now to make a decision about this linen/cotton fabric, and decide what I want to work on Nicole's this Sunday.