Posts Tagged ‘project’
Catlin’s tunic is half hemmed and I have reached saturation. I can’t look at it without seeing all the things that I think of as flaws. Putting it on the dress form and stepping back helps some but not entirely. I should have it done tomorrow night, though, at which point I will do my [...]
How is it that the past two years I have not gone to Pennsic and yet I have Pennsic Panic nonetheless? Catlin’s riding tunic is nearly done – I just need to hem it and finish the sleeves. Oh, and pull out all the basting. Caleb’s hosen, which I cut out on Friday so that [...]
I seem to have a huge pile of projects all in the works at once right now… not that I mind, it’s just a little crazy. I’m sending an A&S display item to Crown even though we’re not going. That will be Matatias’ brown riding tunic – I had to do some mending on it [...]
I gave up. I CAN sew with the threads gleaned from the fabric, but I was getting too frustrated with them breaking, and I could only sew at about 1/3 my normal speed. Since I’m kind of on a deadline for this gown (yeah, I know, the deadline is six months away, but I have [...]
I displayed what exists of the mauve gown at Baronial Champs on Saturday. By that point it actually had six buttons on the sleeve and one almost-finished buttonhole. I’m pretty pleased with how the buttons are coming out… may need to re-wrap some of the shank because it gets moved around as I work them [...]
And documentation is even written! I was working on the hosen handout I’ve promised to approximately a zillion people and I realized that I needed to actually test out one of the patterning methods I was suggesting (measuring and sketching, as opposed to draping). So I made a pair, using some scrap linen/cotton blend we [...]
I cut out the mauve gown tonight. I’m trying a couple of experiments with this one. More than a couple, actually. -> Button cuffs. I’ve done stuffed buttons before, so this isn’t totally new to me, but I’ve never done buttoned cuffs before. -> Actual math… usually I don’t try to factor in the “droop” [...]
Back in late August or early September, Joe approached Irene and me about commissioning a set of new banners for the Barony from the textile guild. We said “sure!” and eventually settled on a design for 4′x5′ banners with a 2′x3′ dragon (we originally wanted to do 4′x6′ with a 2′x4′ dragon, but the beastie [...]
