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Sewing derailed
Mar. 11th, 2015 04:42 pmEven though I'm technically "done" school since I got my thesis and defense finished, I still have a lot going on. I still need to edit the thesis and submit it, plus get it printed. I have my regular research assistant position and I picked up another really cool research assistant job with a different professor. She is working on putting together an exhibit on 19th century books for the blind with all sort of cool interactive aspects to it, particularly so it will be accessible to visually-disabled people. I'm also working on a short presentation for a symposium that one of our grad students has put together. My talk will be on the Wars of the Roses, Game of Thrones, and Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series. I also need to prepare a conference paper for a conference that I will be attending in April. And that's just the school stuff!
As you've seen, I've been working on my CoCo sewing pretty diligently. The reason is that I wanted to get a bunch of stuff done before getting to work on something else. In this case, it's some nursery things for my friend who is expecting her first baby in mid-April. So I'm trying to get that done this week before getting back to 1880s stuff. I made a crib sheet yesterday. Today I want to do the blanket. And tomorrow little quilted pads for the changing pad. She picked a sort of woodland theme and one fabric is birch trees with foxes and the other is a beige and white stylized woodgrain pattern. Cute and different from the standard nursery stuff. I'll have to figure out another baby gift for later in the year. I just found out that another friend is expecting for late August. I guess we're just at that time of life. So many babies!
I'm thinking I should be able to make the bust padding and the skirt for my print polonaise outfit done this month. Hopefully in April I can get the polonaise itself done and the skirt for my Little Mermaid ballgown. Bonus if I can get the train done too, but if not then it will be train and bodice for May. That should leave June and July for Regency stuff... in theory, but we'll see.
As you've seen, I've been working on my CoCo sewing pretty diligently. The reason is that I wanted to get a bunch of stuff done before getting to work on something else. In this case, it's some nursery things for my friend who is expecting her first baby in mid-April. So I'm trying to get that done this week before getting back to 1880s stuff. I made a crib sheet yesterday. Today I want to do the blanket. And tomorrow little quilted pads for the changing pad. She picked a sort of woodland theme and one fabric is birch trees with foxes and the other is a beige and white stylized woodgrain pattern. Cute and different from the standard nursery stuff. I'll have to figure out another baby gift for later in the year. I just found out that another friend is expecting for late August. I guess we're just at that time of life. So many babies!
I'm thinking I should be able to make the bust padding and the skirt for my print polonaise outfit done this month. Hopefully in April I can get the polonaise itself done and the skirt for my Little Mermaid ballgown. Bonus if I can get the train done too, but if not then it will be train and bodice for May. That should leave June and July for Regency stuff... in theory, but we'll see.
