Rejoicing with the Truth

My new arrived today! With Friday off work, I should have a nice new styled wig for the Georgian picnic.

I'm still undecided on what to wear. The weather is similar to last year, though it may be sunny. The red polonaise would be fun, and probably not any colder than the pink wool dress that I wore last year. I'll be wearing the blue cloak and Taylor bonnet and fur muff again. And probably fleece-lined tights. ;)

I dug out the mitts that I began last year, using the Larkin & Smith pattern. They should be done in time, which will help a lot with the 18th century "Winter" look.  They're off white light wool flannel, with point facing and embroidery in light blue silk.

I'm a bit disgruntled, though, because I just spent 30 minutes looking for the sponge brushes so I can make buckles for my wig. I bought a pack of four back in July and I have NO idea where they've ended up. I would have liked to get the buckles out of the way tonight. They're messy and kind of tedious, and have to dry so they're not a day-of thing. Hmph.

Oh, well. I can sew the wig form and put in some clips, and do the initial brush-out of the wig. And do a lot more on the mitts, too. I can stop at Joann for more brushes on the way to choir or something tomorrow.

Still. Hmph!

Yesterday I somehow just kept working on the blue cloak. It's now completely assembled, and the ginormous hood I made looks gorgeous. I still need to cut a neck strip out of silk, and then do all the pressing on both silk pieces and cut the arm slits. Then there's just the sewing to put the silk in and the ribbons on. Yay!

Today I got up and opened all the windows in the house, because it started below 70 degrees. No breeze, which is unusual, but it's still been very pleasant. The sewing room has about hit 86, though, which is the a/c setting, so I need to close everything up now. (The sewing room unfortunately has pretty bad circulation. I'd really like to fix that someday... though it will be hard. Still, made it to 1 pm!  This is fall!

So I've gotten the mitts all ready to sew. Fitted the pattern - the size small fits just about perfect - and cut it out of lightweight cream wool flannel. Same stuff as for my stays, actually. And like the stays, it'll be trimmed with light blue: the point lining, and the embroidery. I did all the pressing and stuff so they're ready to take to the reenactment.

I also wrapped one of Bro. No. 2's birthday presents in brown paper. His birthday is Monday, so I'm pretty sure we'll do a few presents and Dutch oven cobbler out at the event.

Then I got started on the divided bum, like Aubry's. I'm doing mine out of a rather coarse-feeling mediumweight white linen. I had more than I expected to have, so it should do well. My pattern is slightly sized up from Aubry's, because she's petite and I'm... not, and my hips are already quite substantial.  For padding I used wool batting from Felted Sky on etsy.  It came super fast! Also, it's not combed into layers like a blanket batt, so it's better for stuffing things.  I LOVE working with wool. Wool batting is soft and elastic and pulls apart like cotton candy; it can compress into a very small space but will always expand to fill the area, so it really doesn't get all matted.  No wonder wool fabric is so awesome!

Anyway, I got the pillows put together, and I'm pleating the under-petticoat now. Except it's time to make lunch. :)