Petticoat sewing too urgent to wait for my beeswax to arrive

It's back down around -14° C again (about 7° F) and I want once again to wear wool skirts because they're so much more cozy and comfortable when it's so cold... and I DID finish fixing the gray skirt on Sunday, after a slight waistband modification!

Then yesterday I hemmed up the bottoms of the cut off flannel pj pants I've been temporarily using as bloomers, but I hate them. The pajamas in question were too narrow-legged, and they are difficult to pull up and down over the knee, but I want to be able to wear them either above it or below it. So I guess I have to try again with those, but they'll do temporarily.

I initially thought it would be pretty easy to finish a petticoat tonight, because it's just gathered squares and a waistband, but my task was complicated by choosing a lovely fabric from an embroidered sheet and the need to preserve as much of the embroidery as possible. That means it has to be tiered, with the top half of the petticoat narrower so the embroidery can go all the way around, and the bottom half will be a ruffle, but that means more ironing and more hemming so there's just no way I could finish tonight (when I didn't start until after 8 pm because errands, dinner, and bunny grooming). I should've put this fabric aside to make up later when I have more time and done something much simpler that I could easily have finished tonight, so that I could wear the sticky wool skirt tomorrow without it sticking to my knees!

I'll just have to wear the tartan skirt again if it's still cold.

I did try out inch-wide cotton twill ribbon as garters today, and it worked much better than the 1cm silk ribbon I tried last week. The silk ribbons had to be retied constantly, probably six or seven times just at work, where I am hardly walking around all the time. In contrast, I only had to retie a cotton ribbon once today and they stayed put through a long walk to the further store with Wax after work.

So tired of breasts. I don't want to have to think about whether my nipples are impolite

I compromised about replacing my mended merino tshirts by getting a couple of cheaper ones on sale from North Outdoor, a Finnish brand that's cheaper but somewhat lower quality than Icebreaker. Their stuff isn't itchy anymore now - the technology in spinning and knitting merino finely by machine really is advancing all the time and getting cheaper constantly, and it's great. Just three years ago theirs were itchy!

Anyway, the good news is I absolutely love my new 150-weight tshirt. It's so soft that it feels almost like bamboo. Wax didn't believe it was pure merino when she picked it up.

The bad news is it's so fine that it's a bit transparent. The shirt is pale yellow and the bra I wore today was malachite-colored, and it was definitely visible. But this isn't the only garment I own that works only when worn with similar tones underneath, so I guess I'll have to deal. I have a gray one that may work.

My 210-weight tshirt is less of a problem, but even though it's not itchy, it's also not as incredibly silky and smooth.