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Apr. 29th, 2016 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotFinally had a few breakthroughs with the exhibition - someone showed me where the grantor/grantee indexes for the county are online, which helped me to connect a few of the property owners in 1900 (the census I'm using for the exhib), when they were just listed, with those around in 1930, when there are reliable house numbers written on the page. Unfortunately, I can only see the actual deeds up to 1899 online and will have to go in to the County Clerk to see the ones that I've jotted down, and that helps zero with the renters - but I've finally put together a map of the street with relatively little conjecture, and it paints an interesting picture of wealthier owners on the east side of the street and poorer renters on the west, along the river. There are a couple of families that seem to be basically undocumented except for that single census, but others make up for it with obituary anecdotes and wide paper trails. I'm going to have to write a blog post about it, because it's giving me so many feels.
I stayed off Facebook today, which was awesome. Can't argue if I don't see it!
Last night I scaled up the tap pants from the computer screen, and cut up my worst pair of the underwears I like for a pattern. They were so stretched out that the result is not symmetrical, which is a problem, but easily solved. And then today I finally remembered to print out the scale rulers and the base pattern for the slip! Having the butcher paper to draw patterns on is so good, I've been a chump for using newspaper for so long. It was like $25 for this huge roll! I'm still going to have to tape two pieces together for the front of the slip, since it has a flared skirt and is fitted with a waist dart, but the back pieces should be fine.
I stayed off Facebook today, which was awesome. Can't argue if I don't see it!
Last night I scaled up the tap pants from the computer screen, and cut up my worst pair of the underwears I like for a pattern. They were so stretched out that the result is not symmetrical, which is a problem, but easily solved. And then today I finally remembered to print out the scale rulers and the base pattern for the slip! Having the butcher paper to draw patterns on is so good, I've been a chump for using newspaper for so long. It was like $25 for this huge roll! I'm still going to have to tape two pieces together for the front of the slip, since it has a flared skirt and is fitted with a waist dart, but the back pieces should be fine.
