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Yesterday I drafted a yoke, waistband, and placket for a petticoat, and
sewed most of it— just have to tack down the last waistband seam. I used
chambray underlined with muslin and linen scraps at the waistband and
placket.

P found a sturdier ironing board at Lehman’s, and they were still doing a
free shipping deal so I just ordered it. Our current board has always been
a bit tippy, and P’s managed to knock it variously over more than once
while I’ve been on vacation so... necessary.

I slept on a notions order from Farmhouse, and after going through their
entire collection of lace edgings decided to submit it unaltered.
Researched a few methods of making ribbon trim.

Been listening to music lately; Air: Premieres Symptomes is a favorite,
also Mal Blum’s 2013 Tempest in a Teacup.

Angry about a dude my sister is good friends with being an asshat about
abused women being weak. She’s treating the situation with a lot more grace
than I would. L has stepped in to be the voice of Fuck You, but he’s not
having it. Thus. Angry.

Yesterday I prototyped a denser pleat pattern, sketched some ideas for what
to do about the button placket to make it reversible, and did a bunch of
research on historical closures, pleats, linings, and petticoats. I
prototyped an edge-on hook, but managed to do it backwards. Practice ;)

We ran the dishwasher three times and almost made it through all the
thanksgiving dishes. P did some laundry. I’ve nearly finished the
Gladstone&c. Still fighting a looming headache behind the tops of my eyes
when I get too much screen time.

Epic dreams! We were living in a shuttle bus in my old neighborhood after
the house sold, and planning to just stay and get PO boxes. We were
sneaking around in a false ceiling in a building at MIT, and rescuing cats
and birds around campus. I wound up giving cha-cha lessons to A’s ex for
some reason?

Yesterday I washed the wool samples, with reasonable success— reasonable
enough to machine wash all the fabric. I drew up a design for a reversible
pocket, and dug around online for walking skirt designs. I found a couple
of references to fan pleats, which seemed interesting, and bought a digital
pattern basically for that one pattern piece. There’s another way to do it
that doesn’t involve a closure, so I might play around with it a bunch.

P tore a sock on an uppity nail the other day, so I started darning it.
There was another dangerously thin spot on the heel so it’s good I got to
it now.

Dinner, crossword, gbbo, and the Gladstone&c. I’m almost done with season
3, and will definitely continue with 4.