Ugh. All the malefolk in the family had a head cold and I caught it last, starting on Thursday. Kind of putting a damper on Wonderful Husband's birthday on Friday. He will be getting a rain check for cake and nice dinner later this week. Last night I thought I actually felt human again - only to have that myth dispelled overnight. Ah well. Sleep is for the weak, or something.
I am still trying to get a functional braiding foot and connector set for my very basic low shank Singer sewing machine, so the second dress from the roses fabric remains on hold until that arrives. However, I did manage to cut out the gathered variant of that dress in a different fabric and spent pretty much all of yesterday sewing it.
The neckline of this dress is a touch wider than I like; I have to arrange it carefully on my Addy doll to keep her shoulder joints from showing. I might try making it again and stay-stitching the neck pieces first thing, so that handling them doesn't stretch the bias any. The pleats in the waistband make stitching it to the skirt a bit tricky, and I dislike the second row of gathering stitches in the skirt and bodice pieces being outside of the seam allowance. I know it's period, and that often the visible gathering stitches were left in (I've seen, memorably, a First Lady's dress that still had them in), but I don't like it, and taking them out after everything was sewn was annoying.
That said, the pattern went together well, and will probably go together faster the next time I make it. When I'm not 90% made of mucus. And I'm very happy that I live in a US state that isn't willfully stupid about science, because I've made our family appointments to get our flu and covid shots next weekend, to help minimize future illnesses.
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