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My FFC order came yesterday. That light blue check is just too thin and smooth and cold for a winter dress, but should still work for the intended pattern - I might save it for the spring. Or actually it might be better with this, since it's so thin. I'm kind of afraid of that pattern because I made it once and despite what Julie said, it was seriously dowdy. The black pinstriped wool is a bit less thin and cold; I might use it for my actual vintage shirtdress pattern that I'm afraid to grade up. But I really lucked out with the tan twill wool, which is actually soft and warm! It's so hard to get exactly what you want out of FFC, and most of their wools seem to be lightweight suitings in my experience. (Don't remember at all what I bought it for. I have enough for a third version of the dolman-sleeve dress, but I kind of hate both of last winter's versions and the seams are always splitting under the arm.)

I am getting mesmerized by pens. Friday I read a ton of fountain pen intros and columns and stuff, and when I anxiety-woke up in the middle of the night (anxious because of having to catch the garage before they operated on my car), as I predicted, I couldn't stop thinking about fountain pens, as I expected. I can see how the addiction creeps up on people, although I think I'm fairly safe. If I didn't already have a mad hobby for obsessives, though, I could see myself dropping $100 on a pen. I have to admit that I'd even kind of like a nice vintage pen to go with my nice vintage-style clothes, but I'm pretty safe as I don't like the look of 99% of the vintage pens I've seen.