Well, downstairs is massively cleaner due to the efforts of Wonderful Husband, I have baked banana bread and a lemon meringue pie for dinner at my parents' tonight, taken the measurements of and started discussing options with Wonderful Husband's coworker whom I'm making a wedding dress for, and gotten most of my scrap muslin folded as opposed to shoved into crumpled heaps. Amazing how it's taking up about half the space this way. So I guess today counts as kind of productive.

Have received word that Costume College is sold out for next year, which means, alas, I'm going it alone again with none of my IRL friends. Ah well. I guess I should see about finding roommates among other attendees.

The neckline of my new surcoat has been pleated and sewn; I've decided to use self-fabric to bind the neck and armholes, and am taking advantage of the stripes in a straight cut. This also has the advantage of meaning the neck and armholes will stretch very little since I'm not using a bias cut for the binding. Go me! Now I just need to finish the two armholes and I can actually work on, like, the sides and hem and stuff. ^^;; And a dress to go under this since I only have the dark blue one and the Princess Ovelia dress. Ovelia would actually go nicely, but the collar's all wrong for 13th century. I suppose a t-tunic is next on my list, since that's what's under this surcoat in the image I'm basing it on. [John Peacock's Costume 1066-1990s, which I know is suspect, being redrawings, but I like the outfit.]

Okay, off to parents' for kottbullar (Swedish meatballs)!