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[atherleisure]

I've been doing a lot more reading than sewing the past couple of weeks, mostly rereading things more or less at random off my shelves. My justification in keeping all these books is that I thought I'd like to reread them someday so someday seems to be now, at least for a handful of them. I've also been slowly working my way through Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV, which isn't really what I thought it was. I thought it would be mostly about the fashions in the prints, but it turns out to be a series of essays on the prints, the first half of which, at least, are about the prints' context in society rather than the fashions depicted in them. The one I'm on right now is by someone who clearly wants to show that he has a large vocabulary and knows how to use it.

Last night I did iron a piece of voile and trace the embroidery pattern on one skirt panel for a late 1790's dress. I had an all-day headache and really didn't have any more in me than that. Hopefully I'll start the embroidery tonight. I'm really not sure how long this project will take, but I would like to think it will be done by the end of June.