- 2023-03-28 (30 minutes) decided where on the skirt to cut the second leg, cut off the first of the serged seams that cross that leg, and mostly sewed it back together with flat felled seams.
- 2023-03-27 (30 minutes) based the white/blue leg to the black fabric and cut out the leg from the skirt during the morning phone call as Keldor drove to work
- 2023-03-26 (1 or 2 hours?) While Keldor read aloud to me (Huset vid Plommonån), I finished cutting apart the black skirt, ironed it, decided where on the skirt to cut the first leg, cut off the serged seams that cross that leg, and sewed them back together with flat felled seams.
- 2023-03-25 (1 or 2 hours?) I felt inspired to finally cut the fabric for a much lighter weight pair of Thorsberg trousers. I have a really light weight white cotton fabric, with a blue print that looks rather 12th Century in motief, that we found at a second hand store ages ago, and I thought at the time it would make some lovely Thorsberg trousers for wearing under a split-skirt bliaut, but I hadn’t gotten around to doing anything with it. Because the fabric is so thin I wanted to line at least the square but panel and crotch rectangle with another fabric, but I didn’t have anything in my stash that was an appropriate weight. So I looked in the mending pile, and saw an old light weight black cotton skirt that has been languishing waiting for someone to sew shut the rip in the fabric for ages, and saw that it was exactly the same weight as the blue printed white cotton fabric. Having survived for months without the skirt, I decided that it would make a great lining, so, since the party was just in the kitchen at that time, I claimed the living room floor for fabric cutting (and was able to cut out all the pieces without help from the cats, who were still keeping to the bedroom for reasons of people, and probably especially, dogs, in the house). I got the pieces cut, and, since the fabric piece wasn’t, quite, long enough to go from waist to ankle, but was wide enough to have extra fabric over in the middle after removing the butt and crotch pieces, I added an extra wide waist band. That chunk of extra fabric was wide enough to line up the pattern exactly, so at any distance at all, one won’t see that there is even a seam there. So I started sewing the first waist band to the first leg, and left the other pieces spread out over the floor, so I wouldn’t loose track of which side was up for the other leg and waist extension, and took my sewing to the next room to be sociable again. Of course, this was around the time that some people were deciding to head home, so instead of joining folk in the kitchen, I stood, stitching in hand, talking in the entry area, as they got ready to go (and shouted twice “don’t step on the sewing project on the floor!” to Keldor and the guy he was showing off all of the swords, spears, and axes that line the living room wall with. (Really, with no one, not even cats, in the room at all, it had felt safe to leave it spread out during the short time I sewed those two pieces together. Nope.) I got the first two bits sewed together during the time we were doing goodbyes with the first group departing, and started the next set as we hung out with the last couple of folk.