Friday, February 16, 2018

I've been making progress on my epic to-do list.

I've arranged to give some stuff away (hasn't happened yet, I need to pick up mailing supplies):

The Noro Spatwarmers, ends woven in, yarn used calculated so I could update the pattern page, and a new home found.
Silk fabric remnants to be turned into ribbon yarn will go to an art teacher.
Silk/rayon burnout sample and its unattached lining to be a scarf will go to a friend.
microfiber twill skirt needs closure, has a new home.
rust wool open hood, needs liripipe extension has new home.
3 pairs fighter pants are going to the group they were intended for, eight years ago.  (Only two pairs, it turns out)
Assortment of wool hose in various stages of completion will go to someone they will fit.
Silk appliques cut for a project that never happened have a new home.

I've also wrapped up some projects:

Silk shirt has been made into a cushion cover for a friend (It's a little overstuffed.  The pillow form is too large for the maximum square the shirt could take)
 


t-shirt shrug had a gusset added.  I'm still not tickled by the fit, it's very high across the shoulders, which I did on purpose, but am not sure about the effect.



One coif got strings replaced, another got assembly (but not pressing)
























Forehead cloth got linen lining and strings.  Technically, there's a gap in the stitching (where it was turned right-side out) but I completely forgot about it until this moment, and it shouldn't affect the wearing much.


















Unfortunately, I also found a few more projects I'd forgotten about:

Another wool hood, this one in need of buttons and some kind of edge finish (I was thinking tablet-woven trim, but now I'm not sure I'm going to be wearing it enough to warrant that much work.  Maybe I should let this one go, too.


Ugh, this burnout velvet dress.  This isn't *nice* burnout velvet, with rayon pile on a silk ground, this is *cheap* burnout velvet, with rayon pile and a nylon ground.  It SHIFTS.  It moves. The burn-out paste was printed off-grain, so I can either cut on grain, or I can match the pattern. I lined it with a silk charmeuse (because it was a good color match, and available) and it's more wiggly than the silk.  Horrible. At any rate, I don't remember what was so wrong with this one that I abandoned it and started over, because I also have a *completed* dress like this.  But something went wrong, very wrong. 



Tweed vest and blazer, times two.
This set looks good on my husband, but his proportions don't allow off-the-rack suits, or at least not the kind of suits you buy off the rack at Target, so I need to alter his to fit.  And then the fabric turned out to be a shockingly good match for a skirt I own, so I got a set for me, too.  I'm pretty much going to have to re-cut mine entirely.  It's okay, though; a friend of mine has started doing Tweed Rides, and they sound like fun, and this is a near-instant outfit I can wear.  ...once I get it altered.



Socks, half-knit, discovered in the back of the car.



Softest white wool, to be a coat.  (I forgot to allow for bulk *under* the coat, so I'm opening up all of the seams to the minimal seam allowance possible, maybe to be reinforced by embroidery over the seams?)  ...do I even want to keep this garment?



So.  Some work done, much left to do. 

Oh, that's better

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