Since Mother Eve in the Garden long ago

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh

2022-04-04T00:21:44Z

On Wednesday I caught a cold from the registrar at lunch (she was buying us all pizza :( I knew I shouldn't sit next to her when her mask was off but pizza :( ), on Thursday afternoon I was coughing and it hurt my throat, woke up on Friday and decided I would work from home, sensibly went to the grocery store and farmer's market yesterday for supplies and made chicken soup with matzoh balls. Feel like ass today, went through a quarter of a box of tissues. I got them body aches and it sucks.

Trying to write a blog post for Jane Austen's World about Regency dueling. It's so hard, I can't think. But we've now hit the first stretch goal for the Kickstarter!

I was also preparing to post the second chapter of the OC/OC fic but it needs massive rewrites. I started out thinking I would just add a new section at the beginning to describe the lead-up from Rose's perspective and then tweak the rest, but "the rest" was definitely written to go through the motions to get me to The Good Stuff, and I don't know if I'd say it's Crap, Actually, but I suspect it needs more than tweaks. I copied and pasted it all into another doc for memorializing so I can feel free to really bash the main chapter into shape - cut whole sections out and so on.

THE KITTENS ARE SNUGGLINGGGGGGG. For the moment.

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Again?!

2014-05-24T01:29:18Z

Yes, once again I spent the night at Dad's and once again I ate lunch there before going off to pattern and once again I had a nasty stomachache and a bit of a temperature. (Of course it's hard to estimate your own temperature, but I looked in the bathroom mirror before I left and noticed that my cheeks were prettily pink instead of flat pale. And I felt fairly hot.) I'm not sure what to do about this. It's so handy to be able to stay near Albany so I can knock off a chunk of driving. Nothing that I'm eating is spoiled, or the same two visits in a row, or even meat.

Patterning went well. (You get preview pictures if you follow on Twitter!) Two white cotton dresses yesterday, wonderful examples of how different those can be - one with a very gathered bodice and short puffed sleeves, the other a little later, with long sleeves, and with a bodice shaped very slightly like this, hard to describe but I can tell it would slant off and give the "divorce" look. Then today was all about the Pingat, which was in great shape as it's faille. IRL it's more salmony than that picture; also, not shown is a weird organdy/bobbinet/tulle chemisette with satin rouleaux on it in vertical stripes to be worn under the bodice for non-ball wear, which was a surprise. I'm still not solid on the date, because the trouble with the transition from elliptical hoop to bustle is that the skirt was cut the same while the underpinnings changed. So there's no clue there. But looking at fashion plates, it'd be highly unlikely for a couturier to make a gown after 1868 without an overskirt, so 1865-1868 at a loose estimate. I'm going to compare the construction details with ones in books tomorrow. Interesting fact: much of the bodice is machine-sewn.

In other news, my wrist and knee still hurt, but you knew that.

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bother

2013-12-02T01:57:28Z

I'm so used to 18th century sewing that I've put the sleeves of this bodice in wrong. The sleeve seam should be close to the bottom of the armscye, not so the curve of the arm reaches out. BOTHER

Well, I'll just leave the other one basted for now, finish the bottom edges of both pieces (skirt and top), put on cuffs and hooks/eyes, and then go back and fix that.

Watching Emily of New Moon on YouTube. It's not very good, is it? Emily's much more shouty than in the books, and I don't think Teddy was so creepy, either. But I really want to see a visual representation of that series, so. Maybe I'll reread it at some point.

Ilse is impressively rageful, though.

Apparently I have a sinus infection. On Saturday I suddenly started smelling/tasting weirdness in the back of my throat ... Mom has a lot of experience with nose stuff and told me to drink a lot of water. I'm just glad it's not phantom smells, that's a fairly serious neurological thing.

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