Autumn Zebra

The other day I felt like making bread. I made some bread rolls, that as usual did not rise as much as they should have, even though it was a warm day. How is one supposed to make bread, how is one supposed to find somewhere warm enough to make it rise? Also, I believe they cheated somehow with the ones in the book to make them all golden looking. We ate them with corn and plantain soup, as for some reason the supermarkets have started selling small plantains.

I made some felt flowers for myself in a different style to the last ones; I like this style better. Here's a nice picture of the first three: And a poor picture of those 3 plus the next two. They all sort of represent focuses or whatever for the year. I wanted to make some of these flowers for myself anyway, so I thought I'd combine them into a tangible form of these focuses, as writing lists on bits of paper gets boring. The orange one with the circles is juggling, and the blue one is 18th century clothing.

I'm making a 91 piece (minus the waist and hem binding fabric) skirt. It's primarily triangle pieces of scrap fabric, with the biggest pieces in an orange fabric I got several metres of very cheaply. I've just done the first 3 seams, yay! Here are the remaining pieces of these sizes.... And the rest of the pieces... Not pictured are the large orange pieces - which are kind of the base of the skirt, and would make an 8-gore skirt if just sewn together without the other pieces, which I guess are essentially pieced godets? The idea is based on a dress from Northern Pakistan in the "Dress in Detail from Around the World" book (p. 166) which has 524 pieces in the skirt, apparently, and seems to be all one colour, not multiple. See part 2 here .