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The 1890's teagown is continuing along very slowly. The body of the teagown is now fully assembled - it's lightweight wool on the outer, flatlined with cotton sateen. I've also assembled the pleated neckline yoke section, which is a decorative yoke made of one flat strip pleated to fit the neckline. 

But once I got there, I reached an issue. And that's basically that Joanns sucks. I went there looking for 1/8" braided trim (or literally any 1/8" trim, or even 1/4" trim if that failed), and didn't find anything. I found one braided trim that was probably more like 3/8", and that's all they had. They also failed on buttons - no buttons at all that were anything like what I was looking for (7/8"-1", ideally blue, and not plasticky-looking). 

So anyway, I have now ordered three potential trims from Amazon - two 3/16" wide velvet ribbons (one in medium blue and one in navy), and and a 1/8" navy trim that looks braided. Naturally, the braided one is not set to arrive until next Wednesday, and I wanted to finish this this week... The others should be here today, so I guess I'll see if either will work, and if not, I'll return them and have to be patient. And I wound up getting 7/8" cover button kits, even though it's way more work, and they always wind up breaking. So now I have to make 32 covered buttons. *Sigh*

Yesterday, though, I mocked up the collar, and it came out pretty close to what I wanted, so I should be able to make the small adjustments in the actual collar, and make that up today. Ideally, I'd love to make the buttons today, too. I'm not sure yet if I can do the facings/buttonholes/attaching buttons before the trim gets here, or if the trim needs to go into the facings. I'm hoping it's the former, because then I can ideally finish the entire dress besides the trim, and then just add the trim on and take final pictures on a sort of tight deadline, but still get the video out on it on time (since I have a week leeway with my vlogs). Obviously, I still need to do sleeves and the hem, too. 

Once I finish the teagown, it will be on to the Daniel Deronda riding habit, but I'm also still kind of scared of it, since I don't know tailoring...