IM AWAKE! Starting Marie Antoinette

So apparently taking a whole imitrex in the afternoon leaves me wired for the rest of the night. I feel like I’m on drugs or something. Taking a a partial one makes me feel a kind-of cool anticipation feeling in my chest… this is that x10.

So. I started Marie Antoinette. I haven’t taken any pics yet. I’ll try to take some tomorrow. I’m using Simplicity 3635 and 3637, with help from Jean Hunnisett’s Period Costumes for Stage and Screen. I’ve never done well at following pattern directions, I find them hard to understand (visual learner. too many words, not enough pictures.), so having two sets of directions for the basically the same thing is extremely helpful – basically if I don’t understand something on one, I can look at the other for a different explanation.
I got the corset started – I picked up a cute striped blue cotton for it. I’ve got all the pieces made and finished putting the boning in tonight. It was a freaking lot of boning. Tomorrow I’ll be putting the pieces together.

I also got the panniers going – I ended up buying this cute embroidered white cotton, it was on sale and I wanted it LOL They’re put together, got all the casings for the hoops in but one. I need to put in a waistband and finish edges, and figure out how to cut my hooping.

going to try to sleep again now…