almost soured milk

I have talked about yogurt before here.  It is not hard to make.  Just, a lot does not get eaten here so I do not make a lot.  But I came back from camping to an almost gallon of milk close to being soured.  That was a lot of waste for me.  I made it into yogurt.

It was a very thin yogurt when it had fermented so I strained it a bit.  A lot of it is still very soft but some was much thicker.  That is how much yogurt I made.  You could tell consistency differences in the batch.  

I saved the whey that was strained out of it and have been using it the bread I have been making.  I will share that recipe tomorrow because it is quite good!  French like without being French.  

Life is quiet.  I am having a hard time finding things to write about because it is just my life.  I do kind of wish I had pigs for the milk but I do not.  I would have to live on the mountain for that full time.  Someday.

shirt from a dress

When Koda Bear was very small, I was wearing a lot of dress that had skirts to the floor.  I still love this length but there is a bit of impracticality about it.  Especially when there is a small boy you are trying to keep up with.  I kept tripping over the skirt of that style.

I have always liked the camp shirt style.  Very 1940's and 1950's.  I have also been watching the Dr. Blake Mysteries on Netflix.  The styles there are 1950's.  I love them.  Since I have a very old Folkwear pattern for the shirt I wanted to wear and a dress with enough yardage in it to make the shirt, especially since I was not wearing the dress, I thought why not!

This green print is quite old fashioned itself.  Very sublte.  I thought I had not cut the purple dress into something else but I was wrong and there was not enough fabric in the new dress to make a new shirt.  It is truly how I think.  I can I remake what I have into something I want.  Especially, if what I have I am not wearing.  Though the vertical storage of fabric in the closet is nice.

I still have not got the collar down quite right.  I need to reread the pattern a few more times to actually feel comfortable with the collar.  After making so many men's collars on shirts, it is a little counterintuitive.

The buttons were actually cut off another shirt.  It was a work shirt that had holes in it.  The thread was an eBay purchase.  Someone was trying to get rid of old thread.  It matched perfectly.

I really like this shirt.  I was pleased with how comfortable it was.  I was also pleased with the sizing.  When a pattern is that old, it is hard to tell if it will fit the way you think it should at the size it it.  The shirt is actually tucked up here because the picture was taken for the skirt.  I am double dipping.

I have worn this shirt a handful of times already.  It is already a go to in my closet.  I have a couple more dresses I could see myself making into shirts.  The red one I may keep long.  It is a nice traveling dress but it is a more of I will see when I get there.