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I've checked LJ, Facebook, my email, DeviantArt, fanfiction.net (then Facebook and LJ again) and various inspiring costumey websites, and I STILL have two hours until class and nothing to do but kill time in the computer lab.  It almost makes me miss the days when I only had to walk into the art building to be presented with any number of things to work on. 

I suppose I could write a new artist statement.  A month and a half ahead of time.

Or if I was REALLY motivated I could re-vamp my "real" website.

As it is, I badly want to head straight home and finish my spencer  (sleeves and buttons and done!).  The urge to sew is never so strong as when I am stuck in the computer lab.  It certainly doesn't help that I was watching Wives and Daughters again last night which refueled my desire to make an 1830 dress; which, happily, is the next item on the agenda, and as soon as the spencer is squared away I'll be able to start work on that. 

My main inspiriation for the 1830 dress comes, surprise surprise, from one of Molly's dresses in Wives and Daughters.  This one, to be precise:

I've got a really pretty striped fabric that bauhausfrau sent me over a year ago which I'm planning on using for this project.  The color is hard to pin down as it's sort of blue/lavendar/slate, but I think it'll suit the style very well.  I still have to purchase wide lace/swiss embroidery for the collar, but I still haven't found any that particularly calls out to me.  Farmhouse Fabrics has some that will work, but I'm not completely sold on any of them.  I'm open to suggestions!