Sewing update

All my pattern pieces are cut out ready to sew. Cutting satin on the bias is like doing origami only it won't crease like paper and it tries to get away in every direction. I have to coax it very gently with much use of set squares and pins. Putting the skirt together is going to be a bit of a job so it's a good thing I'll be doing it under experienced supervision.

The satin I bought for the skirt was $2 per metre (thank you Geoff, and proprietors of other emporiums everywhere) and very nice except for being a sort of brownish colour which is very difficult to co-ordinate with anything; I got 5m to be on the safe side, since the skirt is going to be full and cut on the bias, but only needed 3. No idea what it's going to look like when it's finished since my dressmaker is spectacularly more talented at designing and sewing than at making concept sketches. The blouse, also bias-cut, is white and will look somthing like the right-hand one here or like this one, with the fluttery sleeves. And to avoid being too dull I'll have an orangey-red sash, which is the only bright colour I found that looks good with the brown.

Men have it easy. They can wear the same suit and be in fashion for at least the last century.