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chocolatepotI'm so tired, but it's been a good day. It took me a while to get going, but I went to Price Chopper for a few things, and when I checked out the 1/2-price-dated-today bakery cart it transpired that they overstocked for the Fourth* and I got a ~6" chocolate cake with fudge between the layers, chocolate frosting, and chocolate chips on the sides for $5. Came home and had lunch, then cleaned the cutting board, which had unfortunately got a little moldy because I often put a dish towel over it for wet dishes to dry on. I used the rest of the bleach solution on the sink and it's SO CLEAN, just amazing.
After lunch I went out and got my bagels and a couple of things at the health food store, taking my knitting so I could sit in the park afterward and work. Only got a few rows done, but more than I did on the train. It was the perfect temperature today, about 73, so it was very nice to be in the park. When I got home I was finally able to get down to work, put in the zipper on my cute little floral dress and tried it on properly - the bodice doesn't fit as well as I'd like, I'm going to take an informal little dart under each arm, but next time I use this I really should change the angle of the straps so I don't get the neckline and armscye gapping anymore. It should also be a tad longer, because while the frumpy dress isn't supposed to gather all the way under the bust, this one is, and it's not snug to my underbust. Although I said "next time" when I made it the first time, so ...
After dinner, I pinned up the hem to finish tomorrow, and then got down to some necessary trying on. I put on my corset and then the dress I bought on FB - IT FITS PERFECTLY. I think the seller may have blocked me after I was vocally annoyed at the Confederate obnoxiousness because I went to send her a bad mirror photo of me in it and could not. Oh dear. But I don't need to raise the waistline - I probably could like half an inch, but that's not enough to make me actually do it. And then I put on bustle, petticoat, and bustle skirt, which all works pretty well - I'd like to make the bustle tip back a little bit because it's tipping forward, and I'm not sure what to do about that - it doesn't need another petticoat because the skirt is flatlined and heavy - and the muslin for the bodice fits perfectly over it. YESSSSSS. I need to add a very little bit on the front edges before I cut out the silk, but I think I can get on with that now.
* You know, it's interesting to compare to Hannaford - this Price Chopper is way smaller than Greenwich's Hannaford, probably because we're closer to Potsdam and Ogdensburg than G-town is to Saratoga, so it's not totally comparable, but - because the cake case here is tiny, they must waste so much less cake every day. At H, you could spend hours just filling up what had had to be taken out that morning; at this PC it must take up so much less time. They told me they make their cakes from scratch, which possibly makes them less inclined to toss so many.
After lunch I went out and got my bagels and a couple of things at the health food store, taking my knitting so I could sit in the park afterward and work. Only got a few rows done, but more than I did on the train. It was the perfect temperature today, about 73, so it was very nice to be in the park. When I got home I was finally able to get down to work, put in the zipper on my cute little floral dress and tried it on properly - the bodice doesn't fit as well as I'd like, I'm going to take an informal little dart under each arm, but next time I use this I really should change the angle of the straps so I don't get the neckline and armscye gapping anymore. It should also be a tad longer, because while the frumpy dress isn't supposed to gather all the way under the bust, this one is, and it's not snug to my underbust. Although I said "next time" when I made it the first time, so ...
After dinner, I pinned up the hem to finish tomorrow, and then got down to some necessary trying on. I put on my corset and then the dress I bought on FB - IT FITS PERFECTLY. I think the seller may have blocked me after I was vocally annoyed at the Confederate obnoxiousness because I went to send her a bad mirror photo of me in it and could not. Oh dear. But I don't need to raise the waistline - I probably could like half an inch, but that's not enough to make me actually do it. And then I put on bustle, petticoat, and bustle skirt, which all works pretty well - I'd like to make the bustle tip back a little bit because it's tipping forward, and I'm not sure what to do about that - it doesn't need another petticoat because the skirt is flatlined and heavy - and the muslin for the bodice fits perfectly over it. YESSSSSS. I need to add a very little bit on the front edges before I cut out the silk, but I think I can get on with that now.
* You know, it's interesting to compare to Hannaford - this Price Chopper is way smaller than Greenwich's Hannaford, probably because we're closer to Potsdam and Ogdensburg than G-town is to Saratoga, so it's not totally comparable, but - because the cake case here is tiny, they must waste so much less cake every day. At H, you could spend hours just filling up what had had to be taken out that morning; at this PC it must take up so much less time. They told me they make their cakes from scratch, which possibly makes them less inclined to toss so many.
