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Jun. 6th, 2015 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotDid something very daring - bought a secondhand 1860s gown on FB for the weekend event in July. Because I'm just not working on the one I half-started, and I really, really want to dress for it. I don't think I'm saving any money at all this month, what with the car insurance and so on (plus I still need to buy the cage). Bad me! But I have a lot of other sewing to do and am tired of castigating myself for not working on this. I feel so good about this decision, seriously - not only do I need to be dressed up to be taken seriously as a fashion history lady, if there are minuscule fit issues I won't be beating myself up for not doing a muslin/not adequately fitting the muslin.
It's not like this means no sewing at all, anyway. I'll have to bring up the waist to fit me. And I might have to let out the side seams of the bodice a leetle, leetle bit.
Oh! So I was going back and forth on that sewing machine, and when I went to the town festival today I ended up getting put in contact with a woman who collects antique machines. She's moving and said she'd talk to me more on the phone this evening to figure out which one of her 1950s Singers she could give me. For free. AWESOME! She told me she had a couple of Featherlights, too, and Mom asked me to ask her if she's looking to get rid of one. So that's some money saved.
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Haul from the book sale:
- Books 2, 3, and 6 of the Royal Spyness mystery series, I looooooove them, sometimes a little light but every series can't be Benjamin January
- Several Tasha Alexander books; they're all trade paperbacks with Victorian paintings on the cover and look to avoid the tropes I hate, concentrating instead on suspense plots
- The Mind of America: 1820-1860, Rush Welter; not new, but the reviews I can find online are good
- a book of fancy dessert recipes
- two books for Etsy, 1910ish
It's not like this means no sewing at all, anyway. I'll have to bring up the waist to fit me. And I might have to let out the side seams of the bodice a leetle, leetle bit.
Oh! So I was going back and forth on that sewing machine, and when I went to the town festival today I ended up getting put in contact with a woman who collects antique machines. She's moving and said she'd talk to me more on the phone this evening to figure out which one of her 1950s Singers she could give me. For free. AWESOME! She told me she had a couple of Featherlights, too, and Mom asked me to ask her if she's looking to get rid of one. So that's some money saved.
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Haul from the book sale:
- Books 2, 3, and 6 of the Royal Spyness mystery series, I looooooove them, sometimes a little light but every series can't be Benjamin January
- Several Tasha Alexander books; they're all trade paperbacks with Victorian paintings on the cover and look to avoid the tropes I hate, concentrating instead on suspense plots
- The Mind of America: 1820-1860, Rush Welter; not new, but the reviews I can find online are good
- a book of fancy dessert recipes
- two books for Etsy, 1910ish
