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Monday was challenging.  V met me a work at 3:30 and we left to look at houses. Rushed home, swept the "Dog Hair That Takes Over the World" and left just as someone arrived to look at our house.  Found sustenance, went home.  Started soup bones boiling for Tuesday's soup.  Folded last of laundry.  Trimmed hem on new gown to deal w/ cutting fail.*  Finally sat down at 8:30 w/ embroidery.  Managed to stay awake for approximately 10 minutes.  Woke up for Castle (sorta).  Went to bed after.  Overall not a good effort.  OTOH house is spotless.

Tuesday made up for Monday.  I updated my brickwork handout and began offering that koolaid around,  Friends came over and I tweaked the fit of a kirtle for one and we got the outer cut out as well as all her fabric inventoried.  She has a very good basis for a wardrobe.  Also drooled over 15th c HRE manuscript.  Another friend helped me tweak the fit of my new gown and marked it to help me fix cutting fail.  Everyone uses a spinning laser level to mark hems, don't they?



* My gowns normally puddle, I wanted a slightly longer train on this one so I added 5" to the back body panels and gores.  Except somewhere there was a brain fart so I added 5" to the front body panels.  It's still long enough but I wanted longer.  My solution to add a wide (10+) inch band around entire hem.  That means I cut the front off and gradually add it to the side panels and by the time I get to the back it's longer by the band width.  I get the train I want and have a moreineresting gown.

Art Every Day Month* is in November. kimikosews is the whose journal I first saw it in, and I like the idea, especially since I don't write and therefore am not involved in NaNoWriMo - but always found it interesting those who do make that effort.

I'm hoping to finish some UFO's as well as my brickwork bag.  I did an inventory and have fewer UFO than I thought, mostly, because some are in storage.

For your viewing pleasure.

Lobo's learning to navigate better.  He's running into fewer walls and doorways and can actually make it all the way up the stairs w/o face planting.  Things I've learned:  A cone of shame is a great megaphone for dog snoring and it gives him a breath weapon +2.  I hope he heals fast.

Venting into the world helped.  Lobo is apparently having an allergic reaction to something so we have 10 day course of antihistamines and antibiotics.  He had to get his butt shaved since he was gnawing on a hot spot so I could put a topical on it.  Add the cone of shame and he really pathetic and hilarious right now.   Because of the length of his nose it's really big and he's having a hard time w/ stairs and keep running into things. I'm sure he'll adjust in the next day or so.

Just setting up over here for now since a few of my friends are here. I don't post much in LJ so don't expect much here.

Pennsic was good. It was somehow more low key than year's past.

We found out Sunday that we were supposed to speak for Alexander on Tuesday at 8 a.m. Writer's block ensued but it suddenly came to me and I made him tear up. Gwynneth was a very tough act to follow, (duh!). His boots didn't make it on the plane so Vlad's boots were knighted. He really liked his houpplande. We played bait the Bloodguard a few times and had much entertainment.

Became an psychofant to the Honorable Mistress Viscountess Master Doctor Adjunct Professor BITCH.

The Queen's Tea was entertaining in a good way.

There wasn't as much stunning clothing on either end. Except for the gothic blonde. I don't think she was even sweaty.

I had other people to geek late period w/ which is new and fun for me.

Antonius is just as oblivious as V when it comes to women and V actually broke that mold and noticed someone noticing him. A also discovered string and was gleeful.

I did not get to visit with as many people as I would have like but got to know some locals much better.

There was more socialization under the big top this year. Game night went well.

The woods was the only battle that didn't start w/in 5 minutes of the published time and that was because of a medical hold.

The A&S display was amazing. I consider displaying but I am so not worthy and might kill people after that many hours.

It was humid but not too hot.

Ivetta will likely never go back, but I was glad she was there this year. We learned to make multi-colored knots together. We need to check to see if we can do better drunk because it can't get any worse.

The smokehouse burger apparently makes you largely immune to alcohol except for a very inopportune 5 minutes. I however did not spill cranberry juice on TRM, win!

Apparently wearing V's tunic and pants makes me invisible.

Peacock!

It's hard to herald in a corset and project well, esp. when you've never seen the scrolls. My friends are amazing and talented. I see a metal working project in my future. And it makes V a Commodore and me an Admiral.

We are unpacked except for laundry because they closed the laundromat in Roseville while we were gone. I hope to get all that done tonight and put away.

I love my I-Pass.

Is there any place in the Twin Cities I can get linen sewing thread?

Day, L.F. and M. Buckle. 1907. Art in needlework: A book about
embroidery. London: B.T. Batsford. (PDF at Google Books).
http://books.google.com/books?id=8z9IAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover
(accessed 17 August 2008)

Jourdain, M. 1912. The history of English secular embroidery. NY:
E.F. Dutton & Company. (PDF at Google Books)
http://books.google.com/books?id=W4BAAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover

Lambert, Miss F. 1849. The hand-book of Needlework. NY: Wiley & Putnam.
http://books.google.com/books?id=SYIDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#PPR3,M1

Townsend, G.P. 1907. Embroidery -OR- The craft of the needle.
London: Truelove and Hanson, Ltd. (PDF at Google Books.)
http://books.google.com/books?id=9D9IAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&lr=

Errera, I. Collection de broderies anciennes descrites par madame
Isabelle Errera.
http://books.google.com/books?id=lCahAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books.html
http://laren.blogspot.com/search?q=Modelbuchs
http://home.comcast.net/~mathilde/embroidery/bibpatbk.htm
http://medieval.webcon.net.au/period_16th_c_modelbuchs.html

The last three have links to Online Period Pattern Books. There are
some at the Arizona Library as well. There's all *kinds* of good
stuff there -- and not just weaving!

I realize this isn't news to any of you. It comes in handy sometimes. Like when you realize that you've lost enough weight that your pants are a safety hazard. A sewing kit means that the chances of doing a header down the stairs are greatly reduced. Aaah Monday.

We went rollerblading on Friday around Como. As I was coming up behind someone I yelled, "On your left." She had earphones in and didn't hear me, and at the worst possible second moved to the left and bent down to tie her shoe. I removed the skin from both my knees, and had to remove rocks from both palms. My right shoulder was stiff all weekend from impact. By the time I got home yesterday my right knee was swollen and warm. Ibuprofen and elevation helped but it's still fairly stiff. I'm keeping up w/ Ibu all day and elevating it occasionally. I really don't remember scrapes hurting this bad when I was a kid, although V says it might be the worst he's ever seen. I have had worse. I think I'm just getting old and wimpy.

I'm going to Kay's to work on banners tonight and bringing my sleeves to cut out. My table isn't big enough and I'm definitely in a no crawl zone right now. Otherwise things are coming together well for Crown. I assembled the skirt and skirt lining last night and have them hanging for the next couple days before I attach them together. I finished the shift embroidery and just need to attach the collar and cuffs. The farthingale is almost done and really I spent much much more time angsting about it than I did working on it. It would have been done already but when I tried to find something to round the ends of the spring steel lumber strapping, the only thing I could find were the 36" bolt cutters. Not exactly a precision instrument. We have a ton of shears in storage but I'm not confident that I have the hand strength to make then work anyway. One of the angle grinders was in V's car so he took care of it for me on Sunday. I would really like to sell my house just so I can get things out of storage and have the tools I need for a job. Kay has been awesome about lending me things and space but it would be nice to just do things at home.

And of course now that I got things laid out nicely I just got a call for a showing so need to go stash everything away again. I'm mostly happy that people are looking but I'm getting really sick of the disruptions. I just want it gone and my stuff back.