And I took trips to New Ulm, Duluth (twice) and Bristol for Ren Fests and bvacations/b. All of which is time away from the sewing machine. So when September rolled around, I found myself with all of the jewelry done, the corsets, shifts, partletts, and farthingales b..../b The jewelry is all complete, the veil was done by bMarti/b Potter, and the partlett is done. Various options for ruffs have been tried. Unfortunately Ms. Potter came down with H1N1 and was not able to join us. ...