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Jan. 16th, 2018 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotYesterday I roughly filled up the spindle, then plied the wool; after work I wound it and rinsed it and hung it up to dry. I have no idea what I'm going to do with this, probably I'll need to finish spinning the entire bag in order to have enough, but I like doing it.
After work I also stopped in at the new bakery and bought a strawberry cream puff and two macarons for a very reasonable price. Could see stopping in again.
I decided today that I should actually get into the local SCA in order to have something going on socially IRL, apart from chorus which always makes me irritated. So now I'm really going to make a fitted cote as I have been thinking vaguely of doing for years! This light blue cassimere would be nice for it, I think. Tonight I worked on draping a pattern ... it is very, very hard to do this on yourself. The back and sides are pretty easy to do, actually, but the front is proving impossible past a certain point. :/ The angle is just all wrong. I'm hoping that once I run the back and side seams under the machine, somehow the pinning in front will become simpler. (It's particularly tricky because nobody with a a dress diary on one of these seems to have a body shape like mine - everyone's smaller or larger.)
After work I also stopped in at the new bakery and bought a strawberry cream puff and two macarons for a very reasonable price. Could see stopping in again.
I decided today that I should actually get into the local SCA in order to have something going on socially IRL, apart from chorus which always makes me irritated. So now I'm really going to make a fitted cote as I have been thinking vaguely of doing for years! This light blue cassimere would be nice for it, I think. Tonight I worked on draping a pattern ... it is very, very hard to do this on yourself. The back and sides are pretty easy to do, actually, but the front is proving impossible past a certain point. :/ The angle is just all wrong. I'm hoping that once I run the back and side seams under the machine, somehow the pinning in front will become simpler. (It's particularly tricky because nobody with a a dress diary on one of these seems to have a body shape like mine - everyone's smaller or larger.)
