Fantasy Costuming

In honor of my finishing all that cropping - taking the size of the folder down to 1.7 GB from 5.5 - and my wrist hurting less over the past few days (at least until I accidentally open a door with my left hand or twist it while washing up), I'm fantasizing about sewing white Regency dresses. I could see doing a bodice mock-up ... I'd like to finish that corset, but I have no idea where it is. I looked for it when I was down at Dad's, and it doesn't seem to be there, so I must have it somewhere here. But it probably wouldn't make enough of a difference to a mock-up, really.

Didn't end up working at Clermont on Friday, because it was rainy and I was told to stay home. They ended up jettisoning a few people and moving inside the building. There's some talk of a demo later, though!

Argh argh argh, the corset is completely unfindable. It must be at Dad's. The busk I bought on Etsy is with it, too. I'm looking at Sabine's short stays research (1, 2, 3 - also CorsetraDesigns' corset en x) because I really don't want to duplicate what I have half-done elsewhere. The third short stays post - the Utrecht stays - seems the most likely for me, because it's got a bit of stomach-dampening length, plus no lacing. (Later: paper pattern cut out, muslin to be cut in a bit. This is the weekend, after all.)

Last night, I made gnocchi with tomato sauce - the gnocchi came from a packet, and I think they need spices in them or something. Very bland, and the sauce didn't do it the way sauce does for, say, spaghetti. I wonder why? But I'll have to try making my own at some point to see if they can be more than just a potato vehicle. (I did have sweet potato gnocchi with a walnut cream sauce once that was delicious. Maybe I should try to do that?)

Update

Okay, sewed enough that I'm starting to feel it. I have the side seams done and nearly all of the gussets in. (Gussets are awful.) Very optimistic about this corset!

For a break, I went and picked a bow full of peas, and now I'm shelling them. I love our setup: Ron plants the garden and gets it going, Mom weeds it, I harvest and eat. Om nom. Neither of them are home frequently in the summer, they're usually down in Delhi, it's totally honest.

:|

I've written about three pages single-spaced on the lead-up of 1780s chemise gowns and the nitty-gritty of, seriously, 1797-1799 ... and it's starting to occur to me that I should do like what I did for my thesis and split it up into construction/embellishment, hair/headgear, outerwear sections because it is monstrously unwieldy the way I have it now and is only getting more unreadable.

:| indeed, though I'm glad I've decided this now rather than later, but how many more times can I write in detail about this period without crying??