Not Starting Tonight

[atherleisure]

I bought cotton broadcloth in that classic Victorian lining color to line a brown wool gauze dress with this morning. I had forgotten just how sheer my wool gauze is - it's really sheer - and while it had a cool iridescent sort of look, it was very definitely not Victorian looking. I'll have to go back and get a very dark brown cotton instead. And so I'm not starting that dress tonight.

As a consolation prize, I threw some light brown linen in the washing machine. I bought the Wearing History automobiling hat pattern this morning since it was on sale, and the pattern mentions an original of light brown linen in Lauren Meringola's collection. I guess I'm suffering a bit from costume ADD because going through the box to pull out the wool gauze, I was contemplating several of the things that I want to make with the fabric in that bin. So I might let myself do the hat, but I really should just get the right lining tomorrow and start on the dress that I've been planning and that the dummy is wearing the underwear for.

So tonight will be another night of knitting.

Comments

[marianme]

Nice reminder about the Wearing History pattern sale.

That brown wool gauze sounds amazing. Do you have an outfit planned for the automobiling hat?

[atherleisure]

I thought the hat would go well with a 1907 sweater and skirt I have. The hat is a sporty kind of thing, and I thought it would go with the sporty sweater and skirt.

[hharris]

I'll be very interested to hear about the wool gauze Victorian. I've got some sheer wool which I kept trying to use for other, less appropriate projects. The last time I pulled the yardage out I told myself to just be sensible and make a bustle dress!

[atherleisure]

I'm planning to make this dress at the Met: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/80094220?rpp=20&pg=2&ft=1874+dress&pos=23. If you look at the ruffles at the sleeve hems, you can see that it's a fairly sheer wool.

[mala_14]

Wool gauze sounds lovely! But yes, the costuming ADD is strong. And it seems worse when there's no occasion to be making something for.

[atherleisure]

Having no occasions to sew for is definitely a double-edged sword. I like being able to go wherever the whim takes me, but it also means that I've gotten all excited planning something and by the time I finish whatever I was working on, my attention has wandered, and I start something entirely different.

[mala_14]

Yes, exactly!