And the heat continues.
As predicted, it got up to 97 yesterday and that made for another hibernation day.
Craig and I walk the dogs around 9:00 every morning. Normally we don't run into too many people at that time and have the neighborhood park to ourselves. But with this heat, lots of people are exercising their dogs or walking and jogging earlier than usual.
Yesterday morning we ran into our next door neighbor, Nan, down at the pavilion watching a pair of Great Egrets who were fishing in the lake.
Nan and Bob love the dogs and even come out of their home to pet them when they see the dogs out in our back yard. Tammo loves them right back and has been known to ignore our calls and gallop over to their home when he sees them appear. Needless to say, he was delighted to see Nan at the park!
Hibernation due to the heat means I am getting a lot of sewing for the Feast completed.
Last week I got a new, updated pattern for pinner aprons that better reflects current historical research. I love how it stitched up.
18th century bib aprons did not tie around the neck like modern aprons; they were pinned to the bodice with steel straight pins at each top corner of the bib.
After selling 18th century block prints for 30 years, Leslie's supplier in India knows her well and once in a while sends her something new that he is trying.
In July he sent her this new block print fabric to try. Leslie passed the fabric on to me and I am working on a men's voyageur shirt to see how it looks when made into a garment. So far I really like how it is turning out.
After this shirt, I need to make one more men's shirt and then I will move on to new shirts for Ian and Lukas. They've grown enough that their original shirts from two years ago are getting a little small.
Lukas doesn't really care about fit - he loves his voyageur shirt so much that he wears it to church and to school.
I hope he likes the next one just as much. (I may use the elephant block print for his shirt.)
There are just 39 days until Feast. I waffle between feeling like I am in good shape and then feeling overwhelmed with all I want to accomplish. Timeline-wise, I should have the men's shirts, boys shirt, and two bed gowns completed by September 14. I'd like to make Mila a new dress, too, which puts me at September 18.
That's two weeks before set-up on the grounds begin, so I should be okay sewing-wise. Then, there's finding time for the 100 blackened beeswax ornaments I need to make...
Yeesh!! Time is flying!
