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May. 5th, 2016 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotAhhh, more fabric arrived today! It's always a nice surprise when you get a package from Fashion Fabrics Club, because it takes so long that you've forgotten what you ordered by the time it gets there. I got another very light cotton with a kind of shamrock print on it (B5708?), a solid turquoise and a solid green in a slightly heavier weight (a bit more like sheeting), a terrible floral print knit I got to make underwears from but it's not the right kind of knit so I guess it will be a t-shirt?, a broadcloth with a kind of tall grass print, and something with a bit more body in another floral print. Washed them all in the tub, along with my cotton voile (definitely silky enough for a slip) and pimatex, and then machine-dried them to preshrink them. Which unfortunately was a waste of $1, because most of them didn't fully dry and therefore probably didn't really do any preshrinking. Sigh.
Work on the exhibition is going well! I found glass plate negatives of two of the houses on the block, plus a few portraits of people who lived there. It's a weirdly undocumented street, but I've got some illustrations now. I wish I could have a dressed mannequin to go with it, but there's just nowhere to put one.
Work on the exhibition is going well! I found glass plate negatives of two of the houses on the block, plus a few portraits of people who lived there. It's a weirdly undocumented street, but I've got some illustrations now. I wish I could have a dressed mannequin to go with it, but there's just nowhere to put one.
