Needles that are not for knitting

The last couple of evenings I actually managed to carve out a quarter hour for myself and, unbelievable though it may be, I did a little sewing. The fourth row of trim on my 1868 skirt is finished! Only one more row to go, but I strongly suspect it will be mid-September before I get the chance to do that.

In the meantime, I'm also plying the knitting needles and I'm halfway through the last hip gore on my corset. I've only got something like 150 rows left in the body, and a lot of those are short rows.

Isn't it great when you actually make progress?

Is it really August?

There's something wrong when it's too cool to dine on the patio in August.