I retired the end of August, so days aren't much different, but I'm finding it hard to settle down to sewing. I have finished a reticule and have a chemisette cut out. I went through my stash and sent all my 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2 inch elastic to one mask maker and all my extra wide double fold bias tape to another. The Costume Society of America's symposium is cancelled. I was going to present some of my privateer research.
I guess we are lucky,supply chain wise. We are in the Washington, DC, area. I was able to find flour at a Dollar Tree. Once was at Wegman's just as a shipment of Caboo toilet paper came in--it is made from bamboo and sugarcane. I will not be switching for good. Now, our Wegman's is fully stocked with their own brand. We are all now required to be masked to go into a store in Maryland, so I am going with the bandanna train robber look. We have quite a collection so I can match outfits. Ann Wass -----Original Message----- From: Lavolta Press <[email protected]> To: Historical Costume <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Apr 19, 2020 5:27 pm 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
