Snow, and Simplicity 2618 in progress

Look what I bought at Newark Airport. It's by Papyrus:


It snowed today! The white lines are the start of the snow (can you spot the squirrel in the tree?)


By night, the tree looked like this (different angle):


Here's a different tree:


And here's my Japanese maple, making a complicated, spaghetti kind of "web":


I've gotten the house mostly back in order, after a rather congested, cough-ridden morning. Finally my lungs and nose started to clear, so I decided to take a stab at Simplicity 2618. I had cut it out 3 weeks ago, so I just had to iron on some interfacing for the facings and hit the sewing machine. Here it is, in progress:

Somehow I was not accurate enough with the pleats, so the front facing is too short. Not a little too short, waaaay too short. (but if I match the tissue pattern facing to the tissue pattern front after folding on the pleat lines, it seems like it would work, so it's definitely my fault). So tomorrow I'll rip out the pleats and try again. Instead of marking the pleat lines with tailor's pencil, I will make a small snip with my scissors instead where each pleat line is. That method should be more accurate. Right now the pleats are not evenly spaced, which is annoying. But I will fix it tmw.


Well, you know, it's getting to the end of the year and I'm thinking about writing an introspective year-end lists for my sewing. Hopefully it won't disappoint.

Good night!