Tunglr, I feel like crap today. I went for a motorcycle ride with my spouse yesterday, stayed up too late, did sex too hard, and I still have a cold. (Not COVID, I did a test.) Blehhhhh.
I have a really hard time getting warm again once I get cold and it suuuucks.
Here are some (not very good) photos of me wearing it! I’ll have to get some better ones at my parents house later, because there is absolutely no good space to take photos in my apartment. I don’t have any other 1830’s things to go with it, and don’t currently have plans to make any. I just wanted this dressing gown specifically.
Anyways! There are 6,957 triangles, all sewn together by machine, but most of the actual garment construction is by hand. The unevenness from all the patchwork seam allowances made it very fussy, and the tailoring took at least twice as long as it would have in a normal fabric. The velvet was also a challenge, being the soft drapey wobbly kind, but I managed. I accidentally made my triangles a bit smaller than the ones on the original (C. 1835, Powerhouse Museum collection.) which means there are more triangles than there had to be, but that’s ok. I really enjoyed doing the patchwork, it’s the most wonderfully soothing brainless task ever and I will definitely make more patchwork things.
I’m very happy with how it turned out! It’s comfortable and fits pretty well, and is warm but not excessively so.
I kept timesheets for everything, and I haven’t added them up yet, but once I do I’ll know exactly how long all of this took.
I also filmed it, but the youtube video won’t be out for quite a while, because I still have to write and record some more stuff and then edit a very very very very large amount of clips.
I’ve been watching your progress on this for years and it’s amazing! You did such a beautiful job!
Don’t mind me, I’m just getting emotional about the way trans elder and renn faire musician Alexander James Adams conceptualizes his relationship to his pre-transition self, Heather Alexander:
“Heather was a changeling. In 2006 she was called back to faerieland and Alec, the child in whose place she had originally been left, was released after beating the faerie queen in a fiddling contest. Thus, Alec now carries on Heather’s musical legacy as her appointed heir.”
God…. good for him :’)
This tag is the highest honor I could ever receive.
Also OP congrats on choosing perhaps my FAVORITE picture ever to illustrate this perfect post, but please also look at these
If you look up “trans joy” in the dictionary you get these pictures of Alexander James Adams
(yes, these are the same picture but look again – no they are not! HE HAS AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT VESTS LIKE THIS, IS THIS NOT THE ICONIC BEHAVIOR OF ALL TIME )
@lavendroused Nah, it’s real sweet to have this post from 2021 suddenly explode to the point where it’s reaching the OG fans. So glad that y'all exist and are thriving and spend your energy loving and supporting this guy <3 Also I had no idea there was a post transition version of the Mushroom Song, so that’s a real treat!
ublock origin should still work, get firefox, tell your friends to get firefox, uninstall chromium browsers, do not support this by using google’s products, frankly
One thing that Firefox can’t do is allow me to access my telehealth therapy appointments. Three different platforms now have rejected my use of Firefox. I use Safari instead bc that’s what works and at least it isn’t chrome, but for folks who rightfully use Firefox, be aware that many, if not all, telehealth platforms will not work on Firefox (something about the encryption/security not being up to their standard, I believe; if there are hacks that Firefox gurus know to bypass this, please share with the class?).
Any reason the developers of those sites give that is not ‘we’re too lazy to check compatibility so we’re blocking Firefox’ is false.