@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