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Pro tip: Gaylord Archival is having a sale this month for their 120th anniversary. If you use the discount code "GA120FS", everything(?) is 20% off and shipping is free if your purchase exceeds $120. Good time to stock up on tissue and boxes and stuff.

Anxiety all the time. My presentation for Saturday is all done bar one concluding slide I'm not sure of - I made it at work because my take is that I'm representing the museum at this event, even if I'm not talking about Silas Wright. Let's be real, I would be useless if I tried to actively ignore this hanging over me.

Sewin' Plans

Okay, so now that I have an accurate idea of my stock, I can figure out what I can make with it. Unfortunately, vintage Simplicity 1749 is the only pattern that I want to use that fits with any of it - 4.5 yards of a sea-green (poly/?)cotton broadcloth. I'm going to have to buy more fabric to remake Butterick 6018 and 5813 for the fall, which is the opposite of what I was hoping would happen ... damn my preference for full skirts. (I've become too thickwaisted for pencil skirts and wiggle dresses. :( ) I made 5813 two years ago and hated it, but I think that was a combination of not doing the FBA correctly, not understanding that the gathered seam is supposed to be fully under the bust, and the sleeves being way too tight.

Just ran through my presentation. It is crap. I'm hyperventilating slightly enough that every so often I have to take a deep sigh to empty my lungs, and also it's like 95% about before the war of 1812. So I'm going to try to revamp it and instead of explaining the progress of Neoclassicism, I'm going to remember that I'm talking to people who know nothing-to-little about fashion history and keep the background light and quick, and describe the layers, styles, etc. Not really happy about losing all that work, but I will probably feel a lot better about being there if I'm as tied into the actual WAR OF 1812 as possible. (internal screaming intensifies)