the second 45

Success!

But first we had to go to the zoo:

It’s payback time for slogging through 150 days of summer. On January 5, it was about 75 degrees and sunny in San Antonio.

So, the sewing project. You hardly expected me to model it, I hope:

This is the second iteration. It fits me as well as anything I can buy, and further generations will only improve. Yes it’s rather boring and white; that’s just the kind of pure virtuous cheapskate I am—would you waste the good stuff before you knew it would fit? I’m saving the leather and chains for later.

The plainest bra that I can buy, looking much like this, fitting nearly as well as this one would set me back $45. Add a few scraps of lace and satin and it might be $75. Takes me about three hours now that I have the procedure down, taking my own sweet time. It’s fussy sewing but each step is soon done.

This has been a major sewing goal for quite some time. Not this one bra right here, but the one I’m going to have soon. And all the ones after that.

Ow. Think I may have sprained my elbow there, patting myself on the back.