@CadeJohnson If engineers have taught me anything it's that Everything Leaks - maybe not now, but eventually, and one should prepare for the eventuality.

I'm just idly wondering how many people would jump on the chance if there were no roadblocks and nothing stopping them. Some boats are the most adorable and cosy things ever, and there's a certain poetry to drifting on the waters and not staying in one place... But it's also apparently quite rough, and a peculiar way of life for someone not familiar with it, and can be horrendously expensive.

Me, I'd probably be too neurotic about the constant weather and dropping things overboard, but it might be nice for a holiday. And I do not trust the sea!

Random curiosity poll, boat edition!

If you could do your job perfectly fine while living on it, there was a place to sail and put it, and you were given a perfectly functional and decent or even nice house boat with only a little bit but still enough space for you and your loved ones... All the conveniences and amenities, heck let's make it solar powered too, with a little garden... Would you live in one?
Would you live on boat, if given opportunity?

@NilaJones Not only does it look nice, it's also extremely helpful when getting dressed in the morning and not quite awake - you notice if you've offset the buttons very fast compared to when they're even and you have to do the whole thing again since you only noticed when you got to the hem...

I have finished the blouse! I managed to find a couple more buttons (there were some under my keyboard, I choose to blame the cats) and now it has all the buttons, as well as a couple of hooks and bars, slightly adjustable.
A better full view photo in above thread, currently have cat on lap so no new photo like that!

#Sewing #Linen

I've managed to make some six buttonholes, and who knows how many I still need to do, I mostly eyeballed the locations on. I also couldn't have gotten all the buttons on today, as I ran out of my favourite ones... So my brain went "Not going to be completed today? Might as well not work on it, then!" and I've had much trouble concentrating. Ah well.

I've left the buttons for last because I need to concentrate enough to figure out which side of the cuff the button goes on, and decide how I want to space the buttons, and which buttons... Which means a bit of brain, and then just a whole bunch of leisurely and rote fine work that I could do in my sleep, albeit much better while awake.
Anyway. Mostly a blouse, good job me.

I have put on the sleeves! Finished the inside seam with just the overlock stitch on my normal sewing machine, as I'm going to do the buttonholes and buttons by hand, and only have so much elbow. Looks like a blouse, now. The circa 1905 sleeves are so nice. I tried it on and it felt like wearing a cloud, also!

#Sewing #HistoryBounding #Linen

@valhalla Needing a hand-sewing project more than needing another shirt is very relatable. I'm almost full up on shirts I can have and will still wear! Thankfully my coverage of every shape and style of underthing is still slightly sparse...

I've hemmed almost half of the ruffle, already. How I've managed that, while also doing laundry and taking breaks, I do not know.

I'm making the much simpler, jankier and "we've got Edwardian blouses at home" version of this shirtwaist from the MET... More inspired than actually following along, but what's relevant here is that it has that front ruffle bit, and I've just determined I might want to hem the linen strip by hand, actually. And I can't really tell myself not to!

#Sewing #HistoricalFashion

@Sewenth_heaven Oh, that's madness in the best possible way! Fantastic. The silhouette is so good, too!

Bonus points for how absolutely confused and perhaps offended Henry would have seen to have some Norwegian woman wearing his rad outfit, home made, hundreds of years later...

I choose to maintain that modern cars mostly look like fucking trash and are also huge and rubbish. And that we could as a society pivot to tiny and beautiful and interesting electric cars of every single shape and design when they're going to mostly drive slowly between two close destinations, or sit in traffic between two close destinations. Me? I'd choose taxis exclusively of the hauntingly looming in foggy darkness type, as displayed here! I'd pay more for them!

Look. I do wish there was absolutely any call to wear something like this today. Imagine this with an enormous hat like here, but also with sunglasses and a mask, and just being all: "You wish to perceive me? Absolutely the fuck not!"

#Millinery #Edwardian #HistoricalFashion

@valhalla Related but not: Last night, instead of sleeping, I was thinking about making a new corset. A lighter, underbust one, maybe out of linen twill...

Random curiosity poll! Do you know any Finnish people? Defined here as people of Finnish lineage regardless of where they live, and people who live in Finland and consider it home, regardless of their lineage!

Boost to reduce bias of everyone answering knowing me at least, should it please you.

The thing about petticoats is that you can easily wear one for ten years and it's nice, and another ten if you don't care about it being a bit banged up, and it's underwear so you don't... But heck does it take bloody forever to make a cute one!
Here pictured: Me thinking I did this to myself.

#Sewing #HistoryBounding

Oh heck yes, an entirely fresh new tin of glass-headed sewing pins, all sharp and not at all bent! What luxury!

#Sewing

Someone in 1898: Let's illustrate these new swimwear patterns we have released
Me, in 2025, sagely nodding: Lesbian polycule on a beach outing

#Ephemera #HistoricalFashion #LGBTmemes

@caity (Not me defending the 1980s, I may need more coffee)

@caity Like. I mean. A lot of the eighties stuff is sort of a look? Sure, they look strange to the modern eye when removed from context, but I swear to the gods some of the stuff the youths today choose to be seen in...

Part of the problem I think, was that not only was it excessive and joyful, but also made from the worst possible fabrics known to man at the time! And any photo taken with cameras and film at the time has serious issues with faithful colour reproduction. So even if it might have looked quite nice in person, it felt terrible and looks strange in photos!