Countdown aka I'm Stumped

With only 24 days until Dances of Vice, you would think by now that the corset and combination would be done, and I would be swimming in yards pink silk, ready to finish stitching up the pieces.

Yeah right.

This week has been a week where I think inanimate objects are smarter than me.

Examples:
Monday - outsmarted by a hole puncher. Seriously.
Tuesday - let's not get into Tuesday.
Today?

Outsmarted by Past Patterns. Saundra Ros Altman, I think I might be a bit of an idiot. Can you please host a sewing workshop on the East Coast please? I actually have a headache, and my mantra, "You're in grad school" is not working.

On the plus side ... despite a slight panic in my stomach because Dances of Vice is 24 DAYS AWAY ... I realized that I do have quite a bit of fabric cut out for the dress. The long-sleeved dress. The dress I was going to make at the tender age of 15, in a midnight blue.

Guess what I'm going with now? I'll be making the sleeves shorter, that's for sure. And I'll be wearing the green feathered headband.

Will my gold eyeliner still go with these colours?

Today is July 11th...

...though I thought today was July 10th. Oops.
My package from Fabric.com came today! Tomorrow will be washing and ironing the fabric... and by tomorrow night? Hopefully cutting out my Edwardian combination.

White lawn

I found two websites that sell white lawn, which is what I need for my Edwardian combination. I cut out the pattern today and am itching to start sewing. However, no fabric ... and still at a standstill with the corset.

Fabric.com has a gorgeous white lawn, "suitable for lingerie" for 7.98 a yard, 2.95 shipping for first-time buyers, and 48 hour shipping.

However, Denver Fabrics also offers white lawn, but for 4.95 a yard. Unsure of shipping, but it's appropriate for blouses. I emailed the nice people in customer service about that particular fabric's appropriate-ness for lingerie.

Edit: I just heard back from Denver Fabrics. Since they do not have ready access to the fabrics, they invited me to send for 1/8th of a yard. Since their shipping time is about 10 days, and Fabric.com has two to three day shipping (if I remember correctly) ... I'm going to go with Fabric.com.

Finally!

VICTORY!

I found the pattern ...The skirt I wore when I was a tour guide at Deepwells ...
Patterns for my 1860s clothes...What was *once* a wearable 1860s dress...
and what I believe is vintage silk.