Movement at the station...

I started a new frock yesterday.
I want more comfy stuff for Festy, and the yellow frock is comfy, so I'm building another. Only this will be a little less 'sheepgirl' and a little more 'wealthy farmer's wife'.
It will have a gapped opening where the lacing shows. It's a part of a theoory I have at the moment about me, my boobs, fitting and comfort. I'm not building sleeves for it either, though if I ever get the urge I could always whip some on.
I was considering a really dark brown wool with black trim, but then I found some navy tabby stuff that had never left its Fine Wools bag. It burns like cotton, smells like wool when wet, and has stretch one way. It's almost black in sunlight. It drapes beautifully. Not quite the warm colour I'd had in my head, but that's ok - the brown will make a delicious coat one day.
I'm running the stretch up and down on the bodice, because it might help me when I'm turning the neckline over. And I'll run the stretch crossways on the skirt, so it doesn't fall oddly. No one need ever know.
It's washed (glad I did - it's roughed up a little, and looks great) and the bodice is cut, side seams together. Boning chanels in, and need to remember to stiffen the front edge as I finish it, and straight grain the shoulders. I always forget that.
I'm going to make adjustments to the shoulders/waist etc. as I go, because I can. And I'll decide later about the kind of trim, because it's not intergral to the building stages. I'm leaning towards simple black velveteen, a few mil off the bodice edge. But it could also look awesome with hot orange.