Another kirtle

Valeria's birthday kirtle is finished (she got the fabric as a birthday present from us when we were in Visby). It needs black sleves (reversible, lined in red) and a black partlet. Hopefully there will be enough black wool left to make a jacket too; she could probaby use it as mundane clothing too then.
It's from a lovely blue-grey wool twill.

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New furniture

Today we bought a new couch and two armchairs from IKEA (one of the cheapest ones, but also one of those I liked best) and I feel so established; I mean: actually buying new furniture. When we bought our bed some years ago (also IKEA) it felt big, but this is bigger. It feels weird that we actually can afford it, but we can, despite the fact that my husband is a clerk at a supermarket (not a well paid job in Sweden either) and I'm mostly on a sick pension. Of course it means that almost all our savings are gone, but the old couch and armchairs were falling apart and we couldn't fix them anymore.
It feels exciting.