Mistress of Disguise

Stopped at the fabric store after work for provisions to finish the crinoline. Two packs of buttons, a 3-yard roll of twill tape, a roll of elastic, and some hooks and eyes cost me $30. Ugh. This has never been a cheap hobby, but damn.

Came home and made tacos. While I chopped toppings, M told me the CEO of Capital One announced that everyone will be required to go back to the office in September, which has, expectedly, caused much unhappiness across the company. M's entire department was hired on with the promise that they would be remote (literally all but 2 of them were hired in the last 8 months, and those two are fully remote from Louisiana). The president of their division, thankfully, had a talk with the CEO, and their department was given the okay to stay remote indefinitely. But not before M spent 20 minutes talking about having to find a new job (the campus is a 2-hour drive from us, so there's no way we could have made it work) and me thinking about how this would seriously mess up our lives. Thankfully, all is well, and our lives have not been blown up.

After the latest episode of Gentleman Jack, I finished flat felling all the crinoline seams, sewed on the front opening placket, and started adding boning channels. But, I'd had a late start again, so that was all I managed before it was 10:30 and I had to call it a night. I feel like I could have pushed it and finished adding the rest of the boning channels (I made the mistake of having a soda with dinner, so I was pretty wired), but eh, it's fine, I guess. At this rate, the crinoline will still probably take tonight and tomorrow night to finish, which means the weekend will be 100% petticoat making time. I had hope to do the corset mockup this weekend, but that doesn't seem likely now.

What I may be able to do, though, is cut out the base to the skirt this weekend, and get that started. Realistically, the petticoat shouldn't take more than a day, so I could get started on the actual gown skirt on Sunday. Then the nights after work could be spent making ruffles.