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dragonlady7Busy busy. What have I actually achieved?
Have cut out and assembled:
Huh, it felt like more than that, which was why I bothered bullet-pointing.
Have done considerable finishing work on the hoods; they are fully assembled, and am sticking the lining down with embroidery.
Have done considerable finishing work on the navy blue linen-blend supportive kirtle as well; it needs hemming and eyelets to be done, and only eyelets to be wearable. Have even hemmed sleeves and finished neckline and front opening.
Have hemmed the sleeves of the red tunic with embroidery, but need to move the side gores up to relieve a fit issue that makes Z look like he has man-boobs when he wears it.
Finished a white shirt for Z, and a green tunic, but both need hemming and the green one needs the neckline finished.
Made myself a pair of knee-length pants to test Nez's pattern for trousers. If Lyons isn't ready to come make pants this weekend, I will have a solo Pants-Making-Night endeavor.
Hemmed the red-and-black herringbone V-necked overgown I made last year from a Greenland cote pattern; it was wearable bathrobe-style, but I am putting a black collar onto it and plan to sew the front closed so that I can belt it on and be presentable. It is a warm garment, which I think I'll need.
I have 16 days left until Pennsic, and tons to do. I started packing today... sort of. At least I feel like I started packing. I cleared out a space in the garage to be my staging area, and put the air mattress and foot pump that goes with it out there. I got some canvas to maybe make a bag to hold the foot pump, since it and all its pieces are in a bulky cardboard box-- we'll see how that goes; the fabric's in pre-washing right now. (I prewash everything, even bags I'll probably never wash.) I should, while I'm making, bang out a bag to hold my extra tent stakes, as the flimsy metal ones that come with the tent are not to my taste.
Maybe even a bag to hold Thumbcrusher, the mighty wooden mallet my father made me to drive tent stakes for last Pennsic. (I was going to engrave the handle with mystical Viking runes. I emailed a Norwegian cousin last year asking for a translation, but he never answered; I should email a different cousin, hmm?)
I bought a cheap plastic chest of drawers a while back, and I brought it in and have been folding garb into it as I complete it. For now, it's handy that it has three drawers-- one drawer for each person I'm making garb for. Josh's trousers, then all Dave's garb, then all my new stuff. It won't hold all of everybody's stuff; I'm just using it for now to hold things as I complete and sort them. Already-completed stuff, and repurposed mundane stuff, will go in another tub which I'll put into the garage. I just have to get that far. I've started re-washing and inventorying stuff that's grody from storage, at least.
Grah, so much to do. Also just remembered I have a writing gig, to do an article on local hot dog joints for the local altnewsweekly. Off to Louie's Original Footlongs!
Have cut out and assembled:
- 1 pr pink harem pants for self, experimental pattern, requiring a number of remakings.
- 1 red tunic for Z.
- 2 gray silk-noil-lined wool hoods
Huh, it felt like more than that, which was why I bothered bullet-pointing.
Have done considerable finishing work on the hoods; they are fully assembled, and am sticking the lining down with embroidery.
Have done considerable finishing work on the navy blue linen-blend supportive kirtle as well; it needs hemming and eyelets to be done, and only eyelets to be wearable. Have even hemmed sleeves and finished neckline and front opening.
Have hemmed the sleeves of the red tunic with embroidery, but need to move the side gores up to relieve a fit issue that makes Z look like he has man-boobs when he wears it.
Finished a white shirt for Z, and a green tunic, but both need hemming and the green one needs the neckline finished.
Made myself a pair of knee-length pants to test Nez's pattern for trousers. If Lyons isn't ready to come make pants this weekend, I will have a solo Pants-Making-Night endeavor.
Hemmed the red-and-black herringbone V-necked overgown I made last year from a Greenland cote pattern; it was wearable bathrobe-style, but I am putting a black collar onto it and plan to sew the front closed so that I can belt it on and be presentable. It is a warm garment, which I think I'll need.
I have 16 days left until Pennsic, and tons to do. I started packing today... sort of. At least I feel like I started packing. I cleared out a space in the garage to be my staging area, and put the air mattress and foot pump that goes with it out there. I got some canvas to maybe make a bag to hold the foot pump, since it and all its pieces are in a bulky cardboard box-- we'll see how that goes; the fabric's in pre-washing right now. (I prewash everything, even bags I'll probably never wash.) I should, while I'm making, bang out a bag to hold my extra tent stakes, as the flimsy metal ones that come with the tent are not to my taste.
Maybe even a bag to hold Thumbcrusher, the mighty wooden mallet my father made me to drive tent stakes for last Pennsic. (I was going to engrave the handle with mystical Viking runes. I emailed a Norwegian cousin last year asking for a translation, but he never answered; I should email a different cousin, hmm?)
I bought a cheap plastic chest of drawers a while back, and I brought it in and have been folding garb into it as I complete it. For now, it's handy that it has three drawers-- one drawer for each person I'm making garb for. Josh's trousers, then all Dave's garb, then all my new stuff. It won't hold all of everybody's stuff; I'm just using it for now to hold things as I complete and sort them. Already-completed stuff, and repurposed mundane stuff, will go in another tub which I'll put into the garage. I just have to get that far. I've started re-washing and inventorying stuff that's grody from storage, at least.
Grah, so much to do. Also just remembered I have a writing gig, to do an article on local hot dog joints for the local altnewsweekly. Off to Louie's Original Footlongs!
