There is an online video/post from a guy who teaches how to grow your on yeast. You could try that.
-----Original Message----- From: h-costume [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lavolta Press Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2020 2:27 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: [h-cost] What is everyone up to? It turns out sheltering in place is time consuming. Making masks. Making artisan bread (which is hard to buy now). Baguettes, bagels, pita, everything. It's become impossible to buy yeast and when the end of a two-pound bag I bought a year ago runs out, and if I still can't buy yeast, I'll have to switch to using sourdough starter for everything. But there's hope--we just found eggs for the first time in a month. Getting groceries requires placing two to three pickup orders a week at different stores and still not getting everything. Toilet paper, paper towels, facial tissues, and rubbing alcohol have disappeared altogether. I just finished all the masks I was going to make, so it's a perfect time to sew something else. Not that I'll be able to go out anywhere any time soon. Like, till there are almost no local cases and/or until there is a cure. Maybe a year or longer. Because even though I am healthy, just being over 60 puts me in a high risk group for death or long-term organ damage. I have a fair number of dyeing projects planned and my husband is eager to help. It means he can run the dye washer in the garage while sporadically cleaning up in there. I bought Gutermann thread charts from Wawack https://www.wawak.com/. So I can match threads to my fabric and order online, without going to a fabric store. This is the time to be thankful for your fabric stash, your button stash, your trim stash, and your elastic stash. I actually had enough elastic on hand for the masks. Fran Lavolta Press books on historic clothing www.lavoltapress.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
