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When we took these the sun had come out, and after we had had lunch we went to a very beautiful, small nature reserve, enjoying blooming meadows, a water fall, the view over the lake, and sunny weather.

This was the first time I wore my new Regency spencer, and it definitely looks better when you have the right type of underwear. But still, if you take many photos some are bound to come out good.



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On Wednesday before Rickard went to work I also got some phots of me wearign the spencer the way it was intended to: over my Regency ballgown, that I made in December last year.

The curls are fake clip-on bangs from eBay - I love them.


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Many photos and some more explanation about the outfit can be found on my costuming blog, here.

But here's a video, you need to click on it:

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I haven't been on a horse for 15 years, and it is over 30 years since I last did any actual riding. But I didn't slide off, despite having no saddle and sitting with both legs on one side of the horse.

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Last Saturday Vendela (younger twin) was going to go to the horse that she takes care of and take photos of me in my regency riding outfit. But the weather forecast said rain all day. It actually didn't rain all day, but we didn't know that beforehand.

But today we are finally going, so now I am going to dig out my clothes and get dressed. I also need to pack normal clothes, because I am walking home the 5 kilometres from her place to where we live afterwards. She's picking me up by car though, so that I can get dressed at home.
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 And a new cap that I made on Monday when I had some friends over. Still not the perfect underwear, since I'm using my 1790s-1800 stays and not my 1810-20s stays. They, however, are laced in the back and now I needed to be able to dress myself.


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 The hallux valgus surgery went well. I had a horrible first night, but since then it has been going very well. I am tired and sleep a lot and don't have the energy to work from home, which I thought that I would be able to do. Hopefully I will get better soon. And until then I mostly sit and hand sew and watch movies or listen to audio books and receive visits from friends 
Two days ago I started on a regency day dress which ought to be finished tomorrow.

I can't really sit in front of the computer much, sine I need my foot elevated and i couldn't get EllJay to work ion my tablet, so I'm not updating or reading much.
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 Anna and I had decided to make another late 18th-early 19th century outing to Gunnebo House. We invited other local empire style enthusiasts, but unfortunately no-one could make it this time. I had bought a cheap croquet set and made a bag for it to make it easier to carry on the bus.

We had a good time, though none of us turned out to be very good at croquet - Annas was definitely best of us two

The other visitors were very entertained by us and I'm sure we are in many people's cameras now. I got one of the persons who talked to us to take a photo of both of us in action:



After playing a few rounds we went to the cafe for tea and cake. It was very full, because they have open air theatre from Thursday to Sunday every week and lots of people order a meal before or after the show.

Having done this three times now we think that two hours is about as long as you want to hang out in the gardens and that we should plan our events accordingly.  And include a swim in the nearby lake afterwards  - it was lovely this time too.

More photos over here.

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 Today the various university departments here in Gothenburg had a chance to present themselves to high school students and I had been asked my my department, the Department of Historical Studies, to represent history - and to dress up for it. Since the archaeologist showed a 12th century skull we decided that it was better with another time period than medieval. So I put on one of my regency outfits. It was a bit tricky, since hubby wasn't at home to help me with the ties in the back of the gown. I managed, but couldn't really hide the ties properly by myself. Luckily I ran into hubby downtown who not only took a photo of me, but also helped my with the ties.
 
On my way out, channeling my inner Mrs Bennet.



Selfie outside our house, on my way to the tram.


The photo Rickard took outside a part of the university library.



 
After the presentation I met Valeria and when we got home I made hummus and then went to the gym for 45 minutes before getting back and making the rest of our dinner consisting of salad, hummus, bread and falafel.
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Taking advantage of working from home I got dressed and dragged Rickard outside to get some photos of my redingote and bonnet for my costuming blog.



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Interesting colours provided by the strong winter sun.

More photos here.
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My friend katarian came over for tea and sewign and since I didn't have any othre project to work on I cut out, and actually finished, a bonnet to wear with my wool redingote.



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I hope that I will be able to get some photos of me wearing them together this week, With better light, this is really harsh.
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Today i actually was well enough in my foot to take the tram downtown after I had been to the hospital, to get some sewing supplies for my redingote and the bonnet to go with it. I spent LOTS of money on various haberdashery, but I could do that since I got money from my mum as a birthday present.

The afternoon was spent making buttonholes by hand while watching Star Trek Next Generation, and making hummus and tabbouleh for dinner (we buy our falafels ready made). The redingote is now finished and as soon as the bonnet is made I will pose in it for my costuming blog.
I have not yet decided how it should look, but in the process of it I made two blog posts about winter bonnets, one for the period 1800-1809 and one 1810-1819.

I did start on my stretch velour skater style dress, but realized that I had too little fabric. Valeria goes to university close to the shop where I bought the fabric, so I have given her a sample so she can buy more for me next time she's there, on Wednesday.

So In continued with the regency chemisette I started on when Anna was over the other day, hemmed it, cut a collar, hemmed that, and made a small embroider on the collar tips. I have also started attaching it to the body of the chemisette, but since it's midnight now I'll go to bed, and continue tomorrow.


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The dolls are now sitting in the kitchen window and they are so adorable that I had to share another photo.



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At work

Nov. 29th, 2017 01:41 pm
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My ankle still hurts a lot if I walk on it too much, so I am using my crutches more again. Today I had to get to the university since I teach a class, but I relaxed at home before lunch, working on my soon finished regency redingote, and listening to an audio book together with Rickard.

I look forward to going home and finish the very last hand sewing. Or at least the hand sewing that I can finish, I need to get either buttons or some other closure for it, but my foot is not well enough to get me down town to buy supplies.

So, next project ought to be one of these:

* Santa skater dress from stretch velour for me

* regency dresses for the dolls

* Winter bonnet to match the redingote. This will require some notions to finish, but I think that I could start it with what I have at home.

A group that I've never met has this meet up in 19th century clothing to go to the Christmas market at the nearby (extremely nearby, I see it from my kitchen window) amusement park on Sunday the 10th, and I'm hoping that I will be well enough for that by then, but then I would like to have a bonnet. And actually I wouldn't mind having a wool dress to wear under the redingote too, though so many layers of linen and cotton (shift, stays, petticoat, gown) may be warm enough.


 


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 It can be found here, with lots more photos.


I love this photo, but I'm very pretty in many of them, very good for my self esteem.




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I started on them yesterday, and finished them today, after Anna and Mattias had left. Anna was beign wonderful, helping Mattias with his bliaut, while I sat and rested, sewed a little on these, and finished a scroll that I have to mail to the princess of Nordmark tomorrow. The evening was spent watching "Thin Blue Line" on DVD with hubby and finishing the petticoats. They close with tiny metal snaps, because I couldn't find any velcro at home. I have to get that later this week, since I plan for velcro closure with ornamental buttons only, on the actual dresses. Not tomorrow, since I think getting to work and being there is about all that I should ask of my injured foot.

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I will write a page about in my costuming blog, but not right now, because I am very tired and don't have the energy to sit much by the computer. I also have visitors, and I've already spent too much time beign distracted by the computer.


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My ankle is better now, I have even tried taking a few steps without crutches, and can careful put some weight on my right foot. Still better and easier with crutches though, so I try to remember to use them. I am very tired however, probably due to sleeping badly, with my foot elevated, but I hope that that will get better too.

I thought that I was going to be really excited about making things for the doll when they came, and I am, but I realize that I would even more like to have all the things made, than actually making them ;) I also had a hard time deciding which period they should wear. But I decided to start with regency. So yesterday I made shifts for them, and I have now started to cut out petticoats (with bodices) for them and will hopefully have the energy to start on those tonight.

My girls. I am going to re-paint the faces, but I need to have daylight, and a clearer head for that.

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On the other hand I want to make myself a regency wool pelisse/redingote too.

Not to mention that I wanted to be able to go out and catch pokémon and raid this weekend, but that is of course out of the question with my foot.

Tomorrow Mattias, a new guy from the medieval group will come over and Anna and I will help him with his orange silk bliaut, lined in pink. I will also try to finish a scroll that needs to be sent to their highnesses for a n event that takes place next weekend.
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 Anna had to sew all the night before (she stopped at 5 am, slept three hours and continued sewing), but her dress got finished except for trimming. I made small chicken pies and bought fruit and almond biscuits for uss, which was very nice to eat on the lawn outside the beautiful 1796 summer house of Gunnebo.

I've put lots of photos over at my costuming blog, including a photo of me not wearing anything ;) After the picnic Anna and I walked through a lake and had a swim before going home.

I won't clog up this post with lots of photos, since you can find them here, but here's two. 



 



Tomorrow I will re-make another modern skirt, so that I have something to wear to work now that term has started again.

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It needs ties and trimming, but otherwise it's pretty nice and will work well with my velvet spencer I think. It's from raspberry pink silk shantung. I had hoped that there would be enough velvet for a hat, but there was only small scraps left when I had finsihed the new collar.

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 I finished the velvet spencer on Tuesday, but I was not happy with how the collar looked. I had scooped out the neck too much in the back. So yesterday I ripped off the collar and started on a new version. It won't solve the whole issue, but hopefully it will look better.  It is now past 8 am, so I think that I can safely start sewing it. And then work, of course, but since I only work part time I can arrive rather late at work.

Anna has finished her transitional stays and they look amazing on her, and yesterday we worked on a toile for the bodice of her gown, which means that she will be finished with her outfit for the picnic on Saturday. I will make the picnic food for both of us, so that she can sew the whole Saturday morning too.
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 Well, actually I love velvet, but not sewing it, my entire kitchen is covered with raspberry pink lint.

Apart from making lint I am going to make a spencer for Saturday's picnic. Just to ensure that the weather stays nice and warm. 

I really want to start on it now, but since I'm using the sewing machine for htis and live in a flat I think I ought to wait until after 8 am.
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 Well, it appears that this is by far my most popular post on my costuming blog - can't see why ;) 



In other news I started on a spencer from velvet remnants yesterday. I was disappointed to find that there wasn't enough for long sleeves, but accepted this as you must accept what can't be changed.
The I found some more scraps of the same velvet and now I have to decide whether I should piece the sleeves at elbow length to make them full length or not.

That decision will probably be postponed to this evening though, since I have my first lecture this semester today and has stuff to do at work before that. Yesterday I suffered from quite a lot of anxiety about this, but now I feel much better, despite the fact that the department just moved and I don't exactly know where I am to teach.

Oh, and Anna loved her blue silk bonnet.


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