Accomplished

I had a great studio day yesterday. After dropping off the repair to my silversmith friend, I had a really nice breakfast at the Highland Grill and then went home and started work. I was determined to work on my cloak. I laid out the template (it takes the largest open floor space that I have in the house) and then grabbed my fabric. Laying out my fabric, I realized that it was 45" wide instead of the 60" wide that I had thought. That meant that I didn't have enough fabric for the cloak. AACCKKK. So, I grabbed the car and went back to the fabric store. Amazingly enough, even though it was a wool fabric and it is now summer, they still had a bit more than four yards left of the fabric. Call me happy. I bought all of the remaining cloak fabric and chose 7 yards of a new lining fabric since I knew I wouldn't have enough of the lining fabric either. The lining is a slightly different shade than I had originally chosen, but it will still be very attractive - just slightly more blue than the original teal I had picked.

Then I grabbed the groceries that I needed on the way home and continued work. While turning the corner into the den/sewing room, my skirt caught and pulled down a shelf component that my DH has had stacked for more than a year . I pulled it down directly onto the bridge of my foot and probably cracked the bones. I taped it up and continued work - I was determined to at least have the main cape sewn by the end of the day. So, in spite of the fact that by the end of the day I was relying on a walking stick to move and that everything took 5X longer to do because of the pain, I did succeed and my cloak is now hanging on my mannequin. I hope to get the lining finished on Sunday, but Sundays are always questionable based on what DH wants to do. I'm happy though, the cloak will shake itself out and I can determine the length and get the hem marked within the next day or so. Then I can start working on the neckline/collar. Just call me happy - I'm one step closer :-)