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Like all new endeavors, this bonnet-making thing is taking far longer than I had anticipated.  I'm using a fairly fine straw braid from The Dressmakers Shop, and while it looks really nice, it's taking forEVER to sew together.  I have the crown part completed, but the brim is still only half sewn together and I need to have it done my tomorrow... I do realize that I have brought all this work upon myself for wanting an all-straw bonnet instead of one with a cloth crown, and then insisting on sewing it by hand.  I'm not normally a slow stitcher, but this bonnet is going so slowly.

On the bright side, I think it'll be terribly cute when it's finished.

On the dark side, it's already 2:30am, and tomorrow I need to make a chemise, paper the insides of my trunk, finish the bonnet, put my hair up in pin-curls, pack, and then drive six hours to Canada.