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Jan. 7th, 2014 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichMy biggest problem with this cold snap is that it is blocking my efforts to do laundry. In the realm of hazards, I'm lucky it isn't all that dire... except I'm running out of innerwear. I'm going to be reduced to hand washing things in a sink if the weather doesn't heat up a bit soon! Our washing/drying area is in the garage and the temperature difference between that area and the house is amazing, especially considering we live in a duplex attached at the garages so the area gets the benefit of temperature protection on two sides. I haven't even attempted to go outside yet. I will some time this afternoon, when the temperatures are at their pathetic highest. I need to take out the kitchen garbage. Oh, the challenges of huswifery!
Yesterday I also had one of my protégées come over to work on sewing. We didn't get any done, however. In fact we didn't get much done at all. A less-organized person I have never met... small piles of fabrics (most of them inappropriate for SCA-period clothing), vague ideas of what she wants, and most challenging for me - a total aversion to using any kind of pattern. "I'll just copy off of this already-finished piece of clothing" is her starting point, using the fabric that she expects to wear... make a muslin attempt first? Why would she want to do that? It takes too long and she knows what she is doing! The afternoon was a tad stressful but I've got her to the point where she is willing to make a muslin first and work from there. Believe me, that was a huge concession.
I've been filing heraldry stuff for the last two days. I'd not expected it to take two days of labour but it has - we found (Bossman helped yesterday) that two containers of 'notes' from the previous submission herald were actually files, some of which are duplicates or each other and others are duplicates of ones already in the 'recent' file holders. Luckily, none of them are duplicates of the permanent files. But still, sorting through two sets of files is time consuming. And why am I using two sets? Because our permanent ones will have to be readjusted, as they are too full to put more stuff in without adding another file cabinet to the mix. Which we have waiting, I just haven't gotten to it yet. Somehow that seems a little silly given that we're going to be converting all of the files to electronic copies and shredding the paper ones sometime this year.
Yesterday I also had one of my protégées come over to work on sewing. We didn't get any done, however. In fact we didn't get much done at all. A less-organized person I have never met... small piles of fabrics (most of them inappropriate for SCA-period clothing), vague ideas of what she wants, and most challenging for me - a total aversion to using any kind of pattern. "I'll just copy off of this already-finished piece of clothing" is her starting point, using the fabric that she expects to wear... make a muslin attempt first? Why would she want to do that? It takes too long and she knows what she is doing! The afternoon was a tad stressful but I've got her to the point where she is willing to make a muslin first and work from there. Believe me, that was a huge concession.
I've been filing heraldry stuff for the last two days. I'd not expected it to take two days of labour but it has - we found (Bossman helped yesterday) that two containers of 'notes' from the previous submission herald were actually files, some of which are duplicates or each other and others are duplicates of ones already in the 'recent' file holders. Luckily, none of them are duplicates of the permanent files. But still, sorting through two sets of files is time consuming. And why am I using two sets? Because our permanent ones will have to be readjusted, as they are too full to put more stuff in without adding another file cabinet to the mix. Which we have waiting, I just haven't gotten to it yet. Somehow that seems a little silly given that we're going to be converting all of the files to electronic copies and shredding the paper ones sometime this year.
