I haven't checked in lately, but I have been busy! I've done more sewing on the inside seams of the blue wool gowne, but in the meantime, I machine sewed 5 silk blend curtains for my bedroom and washed them so they're ready to hang. I wanted the silk for other things, but when it arrived, the tag had "/rayon blend" added by hand after the words 100% silk, so I had no use for it. I didn't want to send it back as postage is expensive for fabric, so now I have 5 drops of 2.4 metre curtains in white was-supposed-to-be-silk.
I've patterned and cut the lining and brocade for a friend's re-enactment jacket- a Polish Kontusz which was fiddley as he didn't fit the paper pattern
The most exciting thing for me at the moment, is that yesterday I picked up a second hand rocking horse to repaint and refurbish. It's not the curved rockers type, but the rocking mechanism on a base type. The original paintwork was pretty ordinary, so a complete overhaul is in order. It's not an antique, so painting it and redoing all of it won't be ruining an original special thing.
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I've patterned and cut the lining and brocade for a friend's re-enactment jacket- a Polish Kontusz which was fiddley as he didn't fit the paper pattern
The most exciting thing for me at the moment, is that yesterday I picked up a second hand rocking horse to repaint and refurbish. It's not the curved rockers type, but the rocking mechanism on a base type. The original paintwork was pretty ordinary, so a complete overhaul is in order. It's not an antique, so painting it and redoing all of it won't be ruining an original special thing.