the joys of hand sewing

As you know I don't mind hand sewing, I actually like it. But there are drawbacks. Like when you realize that you have turned the lining of your long hanging sleeve the wrong way and have to unpick it. the you wish that you at least had used only running stitch, which goes fast to unpick, but no, of course you had to use a variation that takes a back stitch and then as many running stitches you can get on the needle and then a back stitch again.
But I have almost finished sewing the lining together again.

Royal Mail must have outdone themselves!

Yesterday when I got home there was a note that I had a package to pick up at the post office. I just picked it up and it was my jacket that Bess sent just a few days ago.
Thank you Bess!

Where can I get reeds?

Where do people buy reeds for their corsets? That sell to people outside the US? myladyswardrobe, could you ask Ninya where she got hers? It would be marvellous to find a place in the EU that sells them. The Sillysisters say that their reeds are european so apparently they're manufactured here.
I want to make a new effigy-style corset, since the old is too big. First I thought I should use plastic whalebone, but the fabric is such a lovely sturdy handwoven linen (inherited from my grandmother, probably woven by her mother) that I feel it needs period boning.

Maja has a temperature and is quite cranky, but oh so cute.