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stitchwhichI spent the night and the day in my jammies, trying to give the burn site a little 'air time'. Thank goodness for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
opivali, who is addicted to buying his fantasy books in hardback and is thus a good 6 or 8 months ahead of us on puchasing. Yesterday he brought over three books by various favorite authors for us to read and I whizzed through two of them last night. I can't really do much work when I'm in dishabille.
I finally got off my duff and went searching through my (ever shrinking) fabric piles for something to use to make a hood. The Battle of Clontarf is coming up and my favorite hood, nice and warm and pretty, is one I can't wear - I lined it with black linen. That was, of course, the only 'leftover' linen that I could find at the time. Looks like I've been better at estimating what I'll use for sewing because I still can't find any other left over stuff. So it appears I'll be visiting a fabric store to buy one measily yard of linen. Assuming I can find linen at a local store, that is. All my spare fabric is in 3 or 5 yard pieces and I'm not going to mess them up just to line a one-shot hood. (Neither am I doing without a hood - I totally sunburned/windchapped my face last year and I'm not doing it again!)
As I was searching I ran across my 'to be done' pile. I had no idea I'd had so many projects left hanging. Three blankets (two quilts and a blanket), two skirts (both of which are going to our SCA activities night to see if someone wants them), one pair of pants that no longer fit their owner and - of all things - a linen hangerroc that I had no idea I'd started. The straps are already sewn and it was just sitting there, waiting patiently. Along with two pieces of garb with half-finished embroidery on them. And here I thought I'd been so good about finishing my projects. Huh! I have an excuse for one of the embroidery jobs, in that I'd given it to someone who really wanted it and two years later they'd given it back* and I'd just put the bag on the shelf with no plans to work on it. Now I think I might just pick it back up.
*She is another Viking-era LH person who really admired the work and sighed and looked dramily at it all the weekend I'd been working on it at a mutual demo. I was sick to death of the thing and was at the point of never wanting to see it again. So I gave it to her. But politics being what they are (meaning "I'm not a member of her particular group and don't hate the same people she does"), she never worked on it and finally returned it because "she just got a horrible negative feeling every time she started to work on it and just coulnd't force herself to keep trying". Gotta love drama-queens. I haven't seen or heard from her in a while and am wondering what twisted drama she'll have invented by the time I see her at Clontarf. It would be painful if I gave a damn... but I don't, so it is merely sadly amusing.
opivali, who is addicted to buying his fantasy books in hardback and is thus a good 6 or 8 months ahead of us on puchasing. Yesterday he brought over three books by various favorite authors for us to read and I whizzed through two of them last night. I can't really do much work when I'm in dishabille.I finally got off my duff and went searching through my (ever shrinking) fabric piles for something to use to make a hood. The Battle of Clontarf is coming up and my favorite hood, nice and warm and pretty, is one I can't wear - I lined it with black linen. That was, of course, the only 'leftover' linen that I could find at the time. Looks like I've been better at estimating what I'll use for sewing because I still can't find any other left over stuff. So it appears I'll be visiting a fabric store to buy one measily yard of linen. Assuming I can find linen at a local store, that is. All my spare fabric is in 3 or 5 yard pieces and I'm not going to mess them up just to line a one-shot hood. (Neither am I doing without a hood - I totally sunburned/windchapped my face last year and I'm not doing it again!)
As I was searching I ran across my 'to be done' pile. I had no idea I'd had so many projects left hanging. Three blankets (two quilts and a blanket), two skirts (both of which are going to our SCA activities night to see if someone wants them), one pair of pants that no longer fit their owner and - of all things - a linen hangerroc that I had no idea I'd started. The straps are already sewn and it was just sitting there, waiting patiently. Along with two pieces of garb with half-finished embroidery on them. And here I thought I'd been so good about finishing my projects. Huh! I have an excuse for one of the embroidery jobs, in that I'd given it to someone who really wanted it and two years later they'd given it back* and I'd just put the bag on the shelf with no plans to work on it. Now I think I might just pick it back up.
*She is another Viking-era LH person who really admired the work and sighed and looked dramily at it all the weekend I'd been working on it at a mutual demo. I was sick to death of the thing and was at the point of never wanting to see it again. So I gave it to her. But politics being what they are (meaning "I'm not a member of her particular group and don't hate the same people she does"), she never worked on it and finally returned it because "she just got a horrible negative feeling every time she started to work on it and just coulnd't force herself to keep trying". Gotta love drama-queens. I haven't seen or heard from her in a while and am wondering what twisted drama she'll have invented by the time I see her at Clontarf. It would be painful if I gave a damn... but I don't, so it is merely sadly amusing.
