Glorious autumn days

[green_martha]

My website had some trouble with the pictures I uploaded yesterday, but now I have them back.

Starting with some not very sewing related pictures.

We went back to check our wedding location on Wednesday, and had a small walk in the woods. The place is really, really beautiful, the room we rented is quite purrfect for us, and we have lots of mischievious decorating ideas.
Then on Sunday, again I went for a small walk up the hill that's overlooking our house with my brother and sister in law (the HG had to stay home, poor thing was sick the whole week !). Man, I just love the place we're living in !

Now for the sewing content !
I have until Sunday to have a completed mock-up for my Mom's jacket. Only yesterday did I get to make the alterations to the previous mock-up and transfer them onto paper. Here's how it looked yesterday. Not brilliant on Karringa, I know. I made the back in three parts and added a belt.

I feel a lot more motivated by my own stuff - although I wasn't as productive on it as I thought I'd be. That's what you get for being half-sick AND taking care of a sick Home Geek in your one week of vacation...

Please excuse the bad bad BAAAAD lighting, my digicam's batteries died with the last ray of natural light and left me with only the lightbulb after they had charged a bit. You can spot some handbound eyelets (for some weird reasons I quite enjoy making them... o_O), not so neat gussets, and binding in progress.

Comments

[quincy134.livejournal.com]

Your stays look really good! I love the stripey fabric.

[green-martha.livejournal.com]

The bad thing about the fabric is that it's linen, so the stripes tend to not stay very straight, and the metal threads are a bit weird on the skin (but I'll have a chemise under that, so that's not big deal). The good thing being its stripiness and sparkliness. The pictures give the fabric a really terrible color, I'll try to post some taken by daylight soon.

[anielmom.livejournal.com]

Your eyelets are so neat! I wish mine looked like that.

[green-martha.livejournal.com]

Thanks ! - I had quite a lot of practice on my 18th century stays, as they lace both in the front and in the back.

[girliegirl32786.livejournal.com]

That has to be the most fairytale like mushroom I've ever seen!
Looks like you made good progress despite being sick.

[green-martha.livejournal.com]

Thank you ! I'd have wanted to have the bodiced petticoat done wy the end of the week... I was probably a little over-ambitious about that, as usual.