The 1840 scarf is half done! It's only been almost a year :)

Last night instead of doing anything productive, I napped. And I think I really needed it to. I much rather would've been doing something, but combined with going to bed at a reasonable for me hour and despite waking up with a huge headache this morning, I actually feel, well, normal. And this is a good thing ( Read more... )

As much as I think during class that I'm going to come home and work on something, the chances of that happening are very small. For example, tonight I was going to iron the blue ribbon and start box pleating it. That didn't happen! I must do that tomorrow. Really this time. I don't have much work left on the grey dress, but that doesn't mean ( Read more... )

Now that The Thing is as good as done, I'm actually excited about Costume Con. Who knew? It was stress ( Read more... )

The first skein of yarn is complete on the scarf! Of course, major weirdness occurred when I tried to attach the new yarn a new way. All was going well, I knit two stitches with both yarns and it looked like it would work nicely. Until I dropped half a stitch. There it was, just leaning out there, saying hi! And then I tried to pick it up and ( Read more... )

But no. I had to, like, enjoy Paris and pretend these papers didn't exist. I mean, I did finish two classes worth during school today. Hooray for capitalization practice, is all I can say. But I still have a whole set of essays and they have to get done. The quarter ends a week from Friday ( Read more... )

I found my red corset which means I can get back to work on the gymnastic costume. Of course, I think I have a lot of handsewing that I have to do first. It's been so long ( Read more... )

I just ordered fifteen skeins of dark
chestnut lace weight wool from Blackberry Ridge to make the knitted
Regency dress. That's over 5000 yards of yarn, but I thought better be
safe than sorry!

And the Rowan butterfly pattern as suggested by quincy134 and
msmcknittington. So now just to find an appropriate pattern for ( Read more... )

It's back to Paris today! Tonight we'll probably just wander around, but tomorrow is Versailles and West Side StoryI've actually had a lot more to say in my head, but then when I actually get in front of the computer, nothing really wants to come out. Rather odd. However, I'm sure it eventually will ( Read more... )

It's off to Rothenberg, which a stau prevented us from going to last time. Silly stau! However, we did get to see Heidelberg because of it, so I suppose it all worked out.

And in being super ambitious, I'm bringing an extra ball of yarn for the 1840 scarf in my overnight bag. We'll see how that goes :)