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Yesterday I cut two ~80" bias strips of the shot purple taffeta, sewed them together, started to iron the edges in, got to the seam and realized I was ironing them to the wrong side, started over. After a break, I pinned them on the black overskirt. So then today, while I caught up on Downton and Bake Off (the last season of which is on Netflix as "The Great British Baking Show" for reasons that completely elude me, because I'm pretty sure we have the idiom in American English, cook-off, etc. But anyway, if you want to try it, you should, also last season has the high drama of Iain's Baked Alaska) I slip-stitch basted it on, and it's stunning. I'm not doing *all* the trim the original has, but I've got to put a little bit on over the gathers in the sleeve ruffle, and I might put a thinner one along the seams in the peplum, maybe, we'll see. I have yet to formally put it all on and I'm a but worried about how the overskirt's going to work with the bodice, because the bodice's lower edge comes up on the high side. We'll see.

I made that apple shrub and it kind of tastes like ... sweet apple vinegar. I'm hoping that it will develop because I made three jars of it. The pretty faceted Ball jars, so I'm going to try to make some kind of preserves or jelly so I can use more of them.

Is it just me, or have casual bra manufacturers given up on sports bras? I finally decided to just get one of those instead of trying to make a substantial bandeau, and all they had at Walmart - seriously, the only choice - were these packs of three single-layer "bras" you're supposed to layer to get the amount of suppression you want.

Did an AMA today while RPing as Lucile - it was pretty fun, didn't appeal to many, but I liked writing about the Titanic from her perspective.