Halloween & Art Every Day Month 2011

[kimikosews]

For Halloween I did actually make a quickie Halloween costume for my son. He wanted to be Link from Legend of Zelda (and the rest of that video game series), in Red. So I whipped out a quick t-tunic and red hat this afternoon for him to wear (all serged but open, except the neckline by hand). Which means he gets to wear the red tunic at our local SCA events, since it is larger than his last one. His sister wore the Fairy outfit I had made her in 2009 (on my web site here) which still fit her. She chose that rather last minute, since she kept changing her mind on what she wanted to dress up as. Glad it was easy this year, almost too easy. But for a couple of hours of wear, I didn't want to really make anything elaborate that can't be worn again.

ArtEvDaMo11 will begin tomorrow. I plan to participate in some fashion, even if it is only 15 minutes a day. I hope to do more than that minimum, but if I can do 15 minutes a day, I'll be happy.

For now, plans are:

• To finish hand sewing the red trim onto my black wool gown so I can wear it to West Kingdom's Collegium this coming Saturday.
• If I'm good, I may even add in a proper ruff and linen partlet.
• To make new minkee lined sleeves for my old Tudor damask gown, to wear to Kearney Park faire. The old ones are too short and let in air. The new ones need to be bigger at the shoulder, longer on the sleeves, and hopefully decorated with pearls in some nice fashion
• More work on the heraldic embroidery project, which I think I'll work on the heraldic part next.
• Some sort of new purse for me
• Drapes for the house - winter is coming early and my dining room needs curtains.

And that should be enough for a start. If I can actually do those all - even better. I also need, badly, to clean up the house, but that's for the other blog, not here, but this is why I will not be spending my whole day doing art - as much as I'd love to.

Ok, maybe half a day. ;-)