Odds and Ends

1. It finally stopped raining! We got about 10" of rain last night. All the schools are closed, the city and county offices and courts are closed, my husband's office is closed...We not only had a flash flood watch or warning, we got a flash flood emergency. Fortunately, our house is outside the 100-year flood plain so no problems for us (though somewhere west of us they've got water into what the news called 500-year flood plain - I'm not sure that even means anything since I don't think there's any data going back anything like that far). It still was not a nice night, storming from midnight until 8:00 AM. I doubt anyone got much sleep.

2. My husband went to the movies yesterday afternoon so I decided that meant I could goof off too. I finished my second 1916 petticoat so I am officially finished with underwear for the project! I'm going to try to get my husband to take pictures this evening so I can share.

3. I also worked on my miser's purse. The first set of shamrocks is finished. I'm thinking I should have gone with seven pattern repeats around instead of eight, but it will be fine. I originally thought the original had eight, but now I'm not sure why I thought that and have revised my opinion - I think it has only seven. I'm not ripping the whole thing out and starting over.

1916 Underwear Finished

I have finished 1916 underwear. Combinations, corset, two petticoats (one plain and one ruffled), stockings (nylon, but they're opaque and thigh high), and shoes. Now I just need a dress.

And now onto the pictures.

The corset:



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Now I'm starting to get excited about the 1916 dress again, which is good.