I have declared today to be a day of getting things done. Here are the things I will do:

1. Clean room.
2. Get canvas, muslin and silk cut out for Victorian corset.
3. Write 4,000 words before lunch, and 4,000 words after lunch.
4. Finish hemming kirtle that I started to hem last fall.
5. Finish hemming Tudor kirtle I started this summer, and reattach skirt. Bad ( Read more... )

I just broke a lightbulb in my sewing area in the basement. So much for sewing tonight. I just hope the cat doesn't decide to eat any little shards of glass, since it's too late to vaccuum. My sewing machine is several magnitudes quieter than the Shopvac ( Read more... )

Welcome, new faces. I promise there will be updating and it will be riotous. Or cause riots, which would be cool, but also . . . not ( Read more... )

1. I finished another beret, this time for my friend Tabatha. It's once again in Elann Peruvian Highland Wool, and I still love it. I washed it in shampoo and rinsed it with conditioner, so it turned out very soft indeed. I also did one more set of decreases to the brim on this one, so it's a little bit perkier than the other one.

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I went to my first SCA event EVER today, and had a good time. For it, I was planning on whipping up (cue maniacal laughter) out of this burgundy velvet I got for a song, but the fabric doesn't want to be that. It wants to be mid-sixteenth century Venetian. Or maybe just Italian -- based on the Eleanora di Toledo gown ( Read more... )