Random things make a post

[mme_hardy]

•  I am going to this class on making Regency jockey caps; I'm making the heavily-pleated one (in pale blue with bees) at the bottom.  I have cut out and hand-pleated the two main pieces; I've also made a couple of test cockades and may make more if I feel motivated.  My fabric is a lovely navy blue linen-silk blend that's lustrous but not as flashy as satin.
• I just cut a full-blown bloom of my favorite rose, Mme. Isaac Pereire.

Options for today:

• Unpick a dress binding that's just a tiny bit puckery.
• Watch Ep 2 of The Stuarts for mocking purposes.
• Work on fic (The Thick of It wingfic, don't ask).
• Watch The Bitter Tea of General Yen.
• Fiddle with bias fabric and make more cockades.

Non-options for today:

• Obsessively reload pages on Malaysian Airlines crash in Ukraine.

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

You can be eccentric! You just need to be brave enough to be eccentric...

As a fellow person who doesn't work well with wide brims, the choice of summer hats these days is very dispiriting. I was lucky enough a couple of years ago to acquire a nice straw one from M&S that has a small brim (cannot remember which sort of costume drama period is vaguely reminiscent of, probably some sort of 20s, but isn't a cloche), that works very nicely for town/city things when I won't need to take it off*, but that leaves all the other occasions, in which I just end up with battered linen lady explorer, and hope that everyone else looks even more crumped.


*My other hat problem is curly hair.

[mme_hardy]

My hat problems are (A) very wavy short hair and (B) round chin with no discernable cheekbones.