frualeydis | sewing and knitting (Reply)

I have decided that I shouldn't have more than three projects, including my knitting, but excluding the pavillion roof, going at the same time. I didn't start the victorian blouse until I had finished the green bliaut and I won't start the pink linen chainse for the bliaut until I have finished the 16th century corset. The corset should be finished some time next week. I have now sewn all the 40 boning channels on the front piece and boned it. I have also cut out the pieces for the back and will start by doing an overcast stitch around the pieces, to stop the silk from unraveling, tomorrow. If I get bored with the corset I might start on a pair of victorian drawers this weekend, but I will probably work on the corset and knit instead (which reminds me that I have to go to the hardware store to get some metal rings for the eyelets tomorrow. What I really want to do is start on my victorian corset, but since that will take some thinking and possibly a visit to a copy shop to size up the pattern pieces, it'll have to wait. I have a lot of thinking to do at work, since I think I need to redo parts of the chapter, so I think I will avoid heavy thinking at home :).
I have now used up one ball of yarn for my knitting and since it should take c. 4 balls that means I have done a quarter of it, though it doesn't look so.

At work I'm walking around in my victorian blouse and a wide green wool skirt that reaches to the lower calf, with a belt at the waist to keep the skirt there, and my cashmere shawl draped over my shoulders. I feel very pretty and victorian.