Baking! Sewing!

I started working on my green wool garb. I thought it might be nice to get a head start on it. Last year I was unable to finish my garb until midnight the night before the Janesville faire. And for my new garb for Stronghold I didn't finish it until the morning of the faire. I'd like to avoid that this time!
So far I've cut out the skirt panels, sewn them together, sewed the edges on the front opening of the skirt, and started cartridge pleating. Cartridge pleating is easy, just time consuming. Especially when you mess it up multiple times, like I did. First, I started on the wrong end of the skirt. Oops! So I pulled out those stitches and put them where they should go. I finally got to the end of the row of stitches (the stitches are 1" apart on a 180" across skirt), and as I was tying it off a very sad thing happened... Apparently the knot on the other end of the skirt was not big enough, and half my stitches came undone. It was very, very sad. I did eventually finish the first row of stitches, but it was very frustrating! Now I need to do a second row of stitches just under that row. That row of stitches should be easier; I can just use the first row of stitches as a guide. On the first row I had to hold a tape measure while I was stitching to insure that each stitch was 1".
After I finish all of those rows of stitching I can finally put the skirt on the waistband.

As for baking...I made a loaf of whole wheat bread last night. It came out a little bit dry, though. I think there was a little too much flour, so I'll cut back on it next time. Other than that it was very nice. I took a picture before it was baked, but I forgot to take a picture of it once it had been baked.
Tonight I made oatmeal cookies. About two dozen are just plain oatmeal cookies, and another two dozen have walnuts.
Since we're going to be low on bread (because I made one loaf instead of two) I'll probably make white bread tomorrow. I might make a double batch (that will be 4 loaves) and freeze some.

Now I'm going to go wash some of the kitchen stuff (my apron, towels, wash cloths, oven mitts, etc) and go through fabric for some of the patterns I bought yesterday.






Oatmeal cookies.
This isn't all of them; there was still two batches being baked.

Whole wheat bread before it was baked.
I forgot to take a picture of it once it was baked.
I always braid my bread, I think it looks nice!