yay, progress

the anglaise is in a perfectly wearable state, as long as i want to go for period accuracy and use pins to close it! if i have time i might do the hooks and eyes later, and it looks like i might since i did the mockup of clare's frock coat yesterday and hopefully my bit will be finished by tonight.
so yay, good progress!
oh and i forgot to add on to my list of things to do... a friend in the village has asked me to make her wedding dress! a corset and skirt in navy blue, so not very typical, but it's my first commision so i'm very excited!

feeling very sheepish

well, my good resolutions of yesterday all kinda went up in smoke, the only one i'm managing to keep is to go to bed as early as i can, to whit i'm typing this in bed...at 9:16pm!!!
i wanted to get up early and take roly for a walk before we took clare to work, finally dragged my but out of bed at 8:45, so puppy didn't get his walk till we got back from shopping. i wanted to finish making the frock coat today, but have so far only cut the peices out and ironed on the interfacing, i HATE cutting out! my back was killing me so i had to stop.
i realised as i got into bed that i haven't finished an xmas present i need to for tomorrow (an indoor smores kit), so will have to do that as well as bake something yummy, take roly for a walk, get as much as is humanly possible done on the coat, wash my hair, do the washing and a hundred other things i can't even think of!
the main problem today was that we went to dunelm, i only needed interfacing, i came away with giant eyelets for a handbag (cos they were in the sale) white fabric with gold stars embroidered on it for a handbag (it was a remnant) cream and chocolate HUGE spotty fabric (ditto!!) and, and this was my downfall, some polly stuff that looks like slubbed silk in a gorgeous pale cream with an embroidered pattern of trailing folliage in pinks and browns, i found a remnant, 1 1/2 metres, which i thought would make a perfect 18th century jacket, and would go over the quilted petticoat i'm going to make and the petticoat for the cream sacque back, great i thought, then mummy persuaded me to get some more, as there was another remnant on the bolt, and the 2 remnants plus 1 metre would make another anglaise, and for £24 i couldn't resist, the fabric is soooo pretty! when i got home, i brought the bolt of cream fabric out to see how the colours went...perfectly! then i realised what an absolutely wonderful sacque it would make, with a plain underskirt and ruffles, so i spent a while pinning it to my dress form to see what it'll look like, and to show you guys! i think i'll just have enough, i only have 1 piece long enough to do the back pleats, but i figure i can make my 2 drops by having two side back seams instead of one centre back seam, in fact, since the fronts would only be half a drop anyway, i think i won't need side seams either, we'll see, so 1 day in and i've already added something to the list, looks like i'll be wearing a sacque back to the ball next year!!
oh well, off to the land of nod for me!
good night all!