Totally Not Starting Yet Another Project...
Yeah, that about sets the tone for this blog.
I was thinking recently that it would be nice to have an organized place to keep track of projects and blether about life, and then I started counting projects, and...well...there are a lot of them. A lot a lot. This many:
• My sister V's RenFest outfit:blouse
(lacking only the neck hemming, which must wait until I can fit it on
her), skirt, sash, and decoration (probably jingly bits on the sash,
chain stitch on the skirt, and some shisha work on the blouse)
• My RenFest outfit: blouse and sash, with similar decorative bits
• A full 12th-century suit for K: bliaut, shirt, braies, and hose. Ideally that'll involve some embroidery or beading too, although he might just have to be plain for a while
• A full late Turkish ensemble for Liz in Texas: shirt, pants, coat, veil, and hat. Buttons!! I've been waiting for a reason to do buttons.
• Another work dress (for me!) in the blue linen I recently found after thinking I'd hallucinated it
• A (relatively) simple yellow wool bliaut for me—I think this one's going to get a heavily beaded collar
• The blue and red silk bliaut (aaaaaah. It's tremendously gorgeous silk and I'm a bit nervous about cutting the pieces since I have a habit of cutting reasonably close and fudging or correcting things as I sew)
• The ostentatious green and peach silk bliaut—both of the silk bliauts are going to need lots of embroidery and pearlwork. Probably some tablet-woven belts in my future, too. (And as a side note, my calculations for this one suggest that the skirt hem will be something like 209 inches long. Almost six yards. I am unspeakably delighted about that right now, and I will be unspeakably whiny about it while I'm hemming)
• I have fabrics for four or five modern dresses/skirts/blouses, whenever I get around to deciding what exactly I want to make them into. Those should be pretty easy.
• Researching and practicing tablet weaving for my entry to Queen's Prize in the fall. I want to try a replication of this belt, which looks like it might be brocaded tablet weaving with more stitchwork or gems added on top? Clearly the research needs to happen still.I also need to learn how to tablet weave in the first place, but let's pretend that's not on the list.
• Shoes! I'm borrowing shoes still, as I have been for over a year now, and I finally have leather to use for my own.
There's lots and lots more, but I think that's enough to be getting on with. The knitting projects are all long-term, spinning is always a background activity, and there are things like more chemises and pairs of hose that hardly bear mentioning since they kind of happen around the edges of bigger projects.
I was thinking recently that it would be nice to have an organized place to keep track of projects and blether about life, and then I started counting projects, and...well...there are a lot of them. A lot a lot. This many:
• My sister V's RenFest outfit:
• My RenFest outfit: blouse and sash, with similar decorative bits
• A full 12th-century suit for K: bliaut, shirt, braies, and hose. Ideally that'll involve some embroidery or beading too, although he might just have to be plain for a while
• A full late Turkish ensemble for Liz in Texas: shirt, pants, coat, veil, and hat. Buttons!! I've been waiting for a reason to do buttons.
• Another work dress (for me!) in the blue linen I recently found after thinking I'd hallucinated it
• A (relatively) simple yellow wool bliaut for me—I think this one's going to get a heavily beaded collar
• The blue and red silk bliaut (aaaaaah. It's tremendously gorgeous silk and I'm a bit nervous about cutting the pieces since I have a habit of cutting reasonably close and fudging or correcting things as I sew)
• The ostentatious green and peach silk bliaut—both of the silk bliauts are going to need lots of embroidery and pearlwork. Probably some tablet-woven belts in my future, too. (And as a side note, my calculations for this one suggest that the skirt hem will be something like 209 inches long. Almost six yards. I am unspeakably delighted about that right now, and I will be unspeakably whiny about it while I'm hemming)
• I have fabrics for four or five modern dresses/skirts/blouses, whenever I get around to deciding what exactly I want to make them into. Those should be pretty easy.
• Researching and practicing tablet weaving for my entry to Queen's Prize in the fall. I want to try a replication of this belt, which looks like it might be brocaded tablet weaving with more stitchwork or gems added on top? Clearly the research needs to happen still.
• Shoes! I'm borrowing shoes still, as I have been for over a year now, and I finally have leather to use for my own.
There's lots and lots more, but I think that's enough to be getting on with. The knitting projects are all long-term, spinning is always a background activity, and there are things like more chemises and pairs of hose that hardly bear mentioning since they kind of happen around the edges of bigger projects.
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