Doomed!
I have just ordered a swatch set from a company that sells things like silk/wool and lin/cot for less then $15/yard (half that in some cases).
In stuff what I been doing news:
I just finished up a short cloak for littlemike and once again cannot be happier with the product I used from Hamilton Dry Goods, in this case a really soft coat weight black wool for $10 a yard. It has great drape and a really soft hand, I don't think you could pick a better fabric for a cloak really. I don't even think I necessarily had to finish the edges as it felled up really nicely though in the interest of completeness I did of course (I did lose an ENTIRE yard out of the 5.5 yard initial cut in pre-washing though).
Since that's finally done and draxius claims he doesn't need any more Pennsic garb I finally got moving again on the master sleeve pattern to go with my petticoat bodies pattern. After three toiles I think I finally have a working version, now I have to redraft it as a back seam sleeve. Sadly I can't find any good pictures of the finished turquoise petticoat bodies.
I'd love to get another petticoat bodies (aka kirtle, aka dress) together for Pennsic but I'm still trying to figure out what colour (of the fabrics I already have) is likely to weather the Pennsic mud best. As much as I'd love to go for the spring green or the gold I think I'm best off with black.
I finished one of the four designs on my Goldwork sampler and started on the second but my hands got decidedly grumpy and other projects called so I've been hitting that sort of piecemeal. It doesn't help that the primary material I'm working with for this part is really really annoying.
It occurred to me the other day while emptying my fabric bins into space bags so that the bins can go with us to Pennsic that I have a METRIC BUTTLOAD of really nice satin I hadn't even contemplated doing anything with and that I really should make a set of courts. I'm not however looking forward to that whole working with satin part. Also, satin is shockingly heavy. It is easily one and a half to two times as heavy as the same volume of any of my other fabric types.
In stuff what I been doing news:
I just finished up a short cloak for littlemike and once again cannot be happier with the product I used from Hamilton Dry Goods, in this case a really soft coat weight black wool for $10 a yard. It has great drape and a really soft hand, I don't think you could pick a better fabric for a cloak really. I don't even think I necessarily had to finish the edges as it felled up really nicely though in the interest of completeness I did of course (I did lose an ENTIRE yard out of the 5.5 yard initial cut in pre-washing though).
Since that's finally done and draxius claims he doesn't need any more Pennsic garb I finally got moving again on the master sleeve pattern to go with my petticoat bodies pattern. After three toiles I think I finally have a working version, now I have to redraft it as a back seam sleeve. Sadly I can't find any good pictures of the finished turquoise petticoat bodies.
I'd love to get another petticoat bodies (aka kirtle, aka dress) together for Pennsic but I'm still trying to figure out what colour (of the fabrics I already have) is likely to weather the Pennsic mud best. As much as I'd love to go for the spring green or the gold I think I'm best off with black.
I finished one of the four designs on my Goldwork sampler and started on the second but my hands got decidedly grumpy and other projects called so I've been hitting that sort of piecemeal. It doesn't help that the primary material I'm working with for this part is really really annoying.
It occurred to me the other day while emptying my fabric bins into space bags so that the bins can go with us to Pennsic that I have a METRIC BUTTLOAD of really nice satin I hadn't even contemplated doing anything with and that I really should make a set of courts. I'm not however looking forward to that whole working with satin part. Also, satin is shockingly heavy. It is easily one and a half to two times as heavy as the same volume of any of my other fabric types.