Winterthur & Cosprop

I am ashamed; I haven’t yet posted anything about my trip to Winterthur and the Fashion and Film exhibit! I have sat down to do it a few times this week and managed to get distracted by other things. Bad Jenny!

Our day was wonderful! It ended up just being B and I but that was fun. A sister day - yay! I was a bit skeptical about making it a day trip but not having the means to stay overnight that was our plan. It turned out just fine, about 3 hours each way but we had plenty of time to have a relaxing day and still see all we wanted to. We even stopped for a sit down meal and a bit of Twelfth Night shopping on the way home. :> B and I talked, giggled and sang to my Christmas CDs the whole way. Fun! The drive was pretty and simple, we managed to avoid all the traffic and were only delayed by B’s small speeding ticket. :P

( Winterthur: house & grounds )

( the frocks )

If you have the opportunity to go see the exhibit do it – it was well worth the day. My only complaint was the price, a bit pricey if you ask me. To do the exhibit and the house was $20 and from Va we paid about $15 in tolls plus gas. I hate toll roads I really do. Still I wouldn’t have missed it for anything!

PS Many thanks to padawansguide for collecting images from the exhibit (where pics were allowed) in one place. Also many thanks to those who shared their pics with Maggie and us all!! It was a bummer not be able to photographs myself but knowing I could come home and find some anyway was wonderful!

blue dye & the new washer

Thanks for the dyeing advice earlier this week - I appreciate it. So I will break down and take the waistband off. I don't mind doing the pleating really, I rather enjoy pleating. it the re-doing the waist band thing. The WB came out so beautifully on this petticoat. Really it is a work of art. :>

But then it occurred to me that the petticoat was too long anyway, maybe I can just shorten it from the top. Oh wait pocket slits... umm maybe not. I went out and bought the dye today, one bottle royal blue and one packet teal, should work. If I can figure out the new washer that is. Our dryer blew up earlier this week so we now have a front loading washer and dryer, not sure how that works with dyeing stuff...

Should I leave the ruffle cream (and trim the jacket in self cream) do you think? Ummm...

While at Jo-Anns getting dye I saw they had some decent looking poly taffedas 40% off. I'm going to run by tonight with my ballgown and pick something out for a new petticoat (since I'm dyeing the cream one). Yes poly but hey the dress is poly! Shhh! Someday I want gold silk satin for it but I can't find any at the moment and if I did I really can't afford it so this is a temporay measure.

Oh just got my hair cut too. I waited WAY too long… it feels so much better now. I decided I was bored so I got 2“ off the length and lots of short layers. Haven't had it like that in years. Should be easy to do 1780s big hair now anyway! :>