My friend Lavena (newest Companion of the Velvet Owl – huzzah!), just finished her Pumpkin Dress in time for Kingdom A&S.  (She swears there’s a list of these dresses named after vegetables – I told her to let me know when she gets to Asparagus.)  It’s actually a copy of a dress in a Lorenzo Lotto painting.

Doesn’t she look wonderful!!  Here it is full length:

She says she has 70 hours in the dress.  I believe it.  I frequently put at least that many hours into my projects – but I don’t keep track of them.  Learning to Weave suggests getting an electric clock and plugging it in when you’re working to count hours – which is a good idea, but wouldn’t work for someone who handcrafts at stoplights.