Shades of blue

I not feeling fit for public consumption today. The weekend was very productive, but ever so depressing in a few ways which turned out to be rather critical. Being all broke sucks. Especially when people don't take you seriously when you say "Gee, I'd love to do/attend that event but I'm broke and can't." At least it's all temporary, and will get better, it just doesn't make the weekends any easier to get through. Especially when everyone I know if off having a grand time at a ball and I'm stuck alone at home, freezing my butt off, and wishing that just once some facsimile of Prince Charming or my Fairy Godmother would swoop in and whisk me off to the ball. But instead, I fell asleep watching Buffy. Oh well.

All that aside, I did manage to get a decent amount of work done on the latest batch of Rainbow dresses, and the OES meeting on Friday went pretty well. Rainbow dresses scare me. I've been working with this organization for several years now, and I still do not understand the scary cotton print formals or the bizarre and freakish hairpieces. Oh well. One of the dresses I'm doing is a thing of absolute horror I am trying to not think about. Anaheim Angels logo fabric and toxic waste orange. 'Nuff said. The other one is actually rather pretty. It's also orange, but a nice burnt orange color, with gold contrasting fabric. Sounds awfully at first, but we're doing a modified version of the Simplicity Shakespeare in Love dress, and it actually looks quite nice. I've just got to cut out the over skirt tonight, flat line it, and toss it on a waistband this week.

I've heard some good things about this Simplicity pattern, and so far I've actually really liked it. The bodice went together very nicely, and fit the girl well right off. It seems to have an integral corset thing built in, which will give her enough of the right shape to get the idea across but isn't so dramatic that it will look strange to a modern eye. They even have you cartridge pleat! Yay! The bumroll is worn underneath the farthingale and mounted to a yoke support, which seems a little odd, but in thinking about it actually makes quite a bit of sense to me. Supporting the hoops with the bumroll would make some of the heavier dresses easier to manage. If I ever get around to doing my own Elizabethan gown again, I'm going to give their bumroll and farthingale pattern a shot.

In knitting news, I finished sock one this morning. I'll be able to start sock two on the bus ride home tonight. Yay! At the rate I'm going, I should have it done by the end of the week. Of course, it turns out I have twice as much of the yarn as I need, so I'll probably do a second pair and stick them in my gift stash. I have so much yarn for small projects right now (hats, mittens, gloves, scarves, that sort of thing) that I've decided to use my commute time working on gift projects. That way I use up the yarn stash, and have lots of nice things to give away if I need a gift and will be halfway done with my holiday shopping/knitting before the summer! Yay!

I did make a bit of progress on the housemate front, but more on that latter. I don't want to jinx anything.