This weekend!
Dec. 21st, 2015 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI'm trying to remember what it was that I actually did on Saturday and Sunday. Um. Saturday I went to get a few more presents at the Traditional Arts in Upstate New York shop where I got all of the others - a pair of earrings for Melissa, a candle and hand lotion for Gramma - and then I came home and wrapped everything. I'd walked into the village to do shopping there (and at the health food store, where I realized that there are FODMAPs in all dried fruit and so got bananas and GF flour, to make banana bread instead of fruitcake), and then after lunch walked in the other direction to Price Chopper/Stewarts/Kinney's for other food things. Since that was about four and a half miles altogether, I felt okay about not doing anything else the rest of the day.
Then Sunday I made yoghurt (it came out this time! I think I was incubating it just a little too cool), did some more walking errands, and then more of nothing useful. There must have been more, but I have no clue. My weekends are so scintillating.
But today! Usually on the weeks where I've worked Friday night and have Saturday off, by Monday I'm ready to be productive, and productive I was. I was going to bring my January challenge project with me for Christmas, but it's a pain; I'd rather bring my cardigan (which I haven't touched since May). Instead, I worked on the January challenge today. And I got so much done. I moved the skirt about 1.5" up the bodice in front, gathered the back of the skirt and the bodice and sewed them together, sewed up the back of the skirt, hemmed it, and hemmed the sleeves. So basically done, apart from the neckline and back opening finishes (well, the bodice is done there but not the skirt) and the fastenings, and the pintucks at the wrists. Which is all very good for finishing it after Christmas, I think. If it doesn't fit properly I'm going to be very annoyed.
I might really be able to do the HSM next year! Although I'm already backing off the idea of an 1860s traveling costume. I'll probably make a traveling hat/bonnet instead because IDK if you remember but the one I made last year sucked.
Then Sunday I made yoghurt (it came out this time! I think I was incubating it just a little too cool), did some more walking errands, and then more of nothing useful. There must have been more, but I have no clue. My weekends are so scintillating.
But today! Usually on the weeks where I've worked Friday night and have Saturday off, by Monday I'm ready to be productive, and productive I was. I was going to bring my January challenge project with me for Christmas, but it's a pain; I'd rather bring my cardigan (which I haven't touched since May). Instead, I worked on the January challenge today. And I got so much done. I moved the skirt about 1.5" up the bodice in front, gathered the back of the skirt and the bodice and sewed them together, sewed up the back of the skirt, hemmed it, and hemmed the sleeves. So basically done, apart from the neckline and back opening finishes (well, the bodice is done there but not the skirt) and the fastenings, and the pintucks at the wrists. Which is all very good for finishing it after Christmas, I think. If it doesn't fit properly I'm going to be very annoyed.
I might really be able to do the HSM next year! Although I'm already backing off the idea of an 1860s traveling costume. I'll probably make a traveling hat/bonnet instead because IDK if you remember but the one I made last year sucked.
