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Jul. 23rd, 2009 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I have to close all my windows and tabs and shut my computer down today. This is an epic undertaking. My computer is as disorganized as my life. I have a Firefox browsing session in progress that has ten windows open, and each window has between thirty and four tabs open. (Most are in the ten-tab range.) Each is on slightly different subject matter. Many are conversations that I am to be replying to, but haven't. This isn't that odd a state of affairs, but it's worse than normal, because at least two of the windows are filled with tabs relating to making garb.
Here's an interesting smattering.
On Opera-- an LJ entry with a bunch of videos I haven't had time to watch. it sounds fascinating. I can't bear to admit I'll never get the videos listened to, and just close it; I feel like it's something I must know. Oh well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_mythology
Is what it sounds like. Mining it for names and ideas, and also for embroidery patterns, as it happens. Can't find the wonderful page I took notes from months/years ago, that explained the patterns. Oh well.
Mead Recipes: Maple: I want to make this. No time.
Google Books: The Embroidery Stitch Bible. I bought a pattern from Reconstructing History to make a Turkish outfit, and the directions called for insertion stitch, without explaining what it was, so I looked it up and concluded it was insane to attempt. But I still thought I'd try it. Months ago. And haven't closed the tab yet, because I cling to the hope that I will get to it. (Along with several other tabs on the same topic, including this nice clear one.)
Oh right, I wanted to learn to tablet weave. Well, the set of a dozen tabs is still open, forlornly, and my abortive first attempt is still hanging from the closet door, tangled and ridiculous. And I still don't have a belt, and need urgently to make one, but don't know how.
In the midst of a twenty-tab set on Baltic and Slavic costumes and garb, here is a page with neato Latvian mitten designs. I can't read it, or the page that linked to it, but the designs are cool.
Also, here is how you attach a cuff to a sleeve. I know that person is on LJ somewhere and that she has a more updated version of that site but by gum I cannot find it or her. Bah. Most excellent tutorials.
And a third from that set of tabs-- OK, I know this is marking me as uber-super-geeky and hopeless, but I just think the dude in this picture is super hot and I had this fantasy, for Pennsic, of getting Z dressed up like that. (For those who haven't seen him, he kind of looks like that anyway.) So it would've been super hot. But alas, we do not yet have Kievan Rus personae, nor does Z have an awesome hat like that. Or a sword like that.
Mmmf. Super. Fucking. Foxy! What is wrong with me?!?!
Oh. Scythians! That's probably more for Barbarians_Novel than Pennsic.
But this is totally for Pennsic. I won't be able to get it done; I only have a gomlek and chirka so far, with no entari to go over the top. This is what I did when I couldn't figure out the purchased Turkish pattern... Sigh, anyone want to buy a never-used, slightly-puzzled-over pattern for a Turkish outfit from me? I need that $20 back. I think the problem is me, I can't use paper patterns anymore, but have to draft them myself because I'll never understand them otherwise... Except OK, she really was nuts for suggesting insertion stitch, there's no way any human would be able to make that work. I mean for real???!
Yeah, the rest of the tabs were about the Kragelund and Hedeby tunics I wrote about last week (was it that long ago?), so I'll wrap this up and say, man, I am so disorganized. I am also procrastinating on getting out of bed because it's sticky and rainy and cold-ish but so humid you can't be comfortable in any garment. And it's been pouring all night and morning, so I can't bear to think about what my garden must be up to. Eurgh.
If only we'd get a little sun, then enough of my tomatoes would ripen that I could make dinner. I bought the rest of the ingredients to make a white pizza, but I need tomatoes to put on it. So much for growing an heirloom early cultivar-- they're all green and small. The cherry tomatoes are starting to turn red, but not enough of them have done so yet to make one pizza. I just need enough for one pizza. I am quite low on food for this household and I am trying to get vegetables into our diet (which is a positive spin on not being able to afford meat). Argh. Potatoes again.
OK, gotta get up. Gotta sew, there's no more time to be burnt-out and not finish things.
Here's an interesting smattering.
On Opera-- an LJ entry with a bunch of videos I haven't had time to watch. it sounds fascinating. I can't bear to admit I'll never get the videos listened to, and just close it; I feel like it's something I must know. Oh well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_mythology
Is what it sounds like. Mining it for names and ideas, and also for embroidery patterns, as it happens. Can't find the wonderful page I took notes from months/years ago, that explained the patterns. Oh well.
Mead Recipes: Maple: I want to make this. No time.
Google Books: The Embroidery Stitch Bible. I bought a pattern from Reconstructing History to make a Turkish outfit, and the directions called for insertion stitch, without explaining what it was, so I looked it up and concluded it was insane to attempt. But I still thought I'd try it. Months ago. And haven't closed the tab yet, because I cling to the hope that I will get to it. (Along with several other tabs on the same topic, including this nice clear one.)
Oh right, I wanted to learn to tablet weave. Well, the set of a dozen tabs is still open, forlornly, and my abortive first attempt is still hanging from the closet door, tangled and ridiculous. And I still don't have a belt, and need urgently to make one, but don't know how.
In the midst of a twenty-tab set on Baltic and Slavic costumes and garb, here is a page with neato Latvian mitten designs. I can't read it, or the page that linked to it, but the designs are cool.
Also, here is how you attach a cuff to a sleeve. I know that person is on LJ somewhere and that she has a more updated version of that site but by gum I cannot find it or her. Bah. Most excellent tutorials.
And a third from that set of tabs-- OK, I know this is marking me as uber-super-geeky and hopeless, but I just think the dude in this picture is super hot and I had this fantasy, for Pennsic, of getting Z dressed up like that. (For those who haven't seen him, he kind of looks like that anyway.) So it would've been super hot. But alas, we do not yet have Kievan Rus personae, nor does Z have an awesome hat like that. Or a sword like that.
Mmmf. Super. Fucking. Foxy! What is wrong with me?!?!
Oh. Scythians! That's probably more for Barbarians_Novel than Pennsic.
But this is totally for Pennsic. I won't be able to get it done; I only have a gomlek and chirka so far, with no entari to go over the top. This is what I did when I couldn't figure out the purchased Turkish pattern... Sigh, anyone want to buy a never-used, slightly-puzzled-over pattern for a Turkish outfit from me? I need that $20 back. I think the problem is me, I can't use paper patterns anymore, but have to draft them myself because I'll never understand them otherwise... Except OK, she really was nuts for suggesting insertion stitch, there's no way any human would be able to make that work. I mean for real???!
Yeah, the rest of the tabs were about the Kragelund and Hedeby tunics I wrote about last week (was it that long ago?), so I'll wrap this up and say, man, I am so disorganized. I am also procrastinating on getting out of bed because it's sticky and rainy and cold-ish but so humid you can't be comfortable in any garment. And it's been pouring all night and morning, so I can't bear to think about what my garden must be up to. Eurgh.
If only we'd get a little sun, then enough of my tomatoes would ripen that I could make dinner. I bought the rest of the ingredients to make a white pizza, but I need tomatoes to put on it. So much for growing an heirloom early cultivar-- they're all green and small. The cherry tomatoes are starting to turn red, but not enough of them have done so yet to make one pizza. I just need enough for one pizza. I am quite low on food for this household and I am trying to get vegetables into our diet (which is a positive spin on not being able to afford meat). Argh. Potatoes again.
OK, gotta get up. Gotta sew, there's no more time to be burnt-out and not finish things.
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Date: 2009-07-23 02:40 pm (UTC)Also, I have all heirloom tomatoes and none are meant to ripen early. Because of that, and because my husband is impatient for tomatoes, I also have a bunch of early girls that are just starting to ripen. If that's any consolation.