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Jul. 9th, 2006 12:14 amRoss is out at the Castle, and I'm home, working on a new kirtle for next Saturday's event.
This particular event, a day of classes, is well beloved to me because it's a one day, inside event. I like those ones. A decreased chance of heat exhaustion is always better. The one deeply unfortunate thing about the event is that the three classes I'm most interested in all occur at the same time. Which means I'm going to have to decide between them. One is Basic Blackwork, which is a skill I've started on, but could frankly use some help on. The second is fingerloop braiding, which I'd really like to learn and haven't done anything more than look at a couple of websites. And the third is making an elizabethan washball. Now, I have absolutely no clue what an Elizabethan washball is (madinia?), but it sounds fun, doesn't it? I'm also torn between Bread and Butter making and period cold process soaps, which occur opposite each other at a different time. If anyone has any thoughts, please share.
This is my first stab at a front-closing kirtle, so wish me luck. I've already broken two needles while closing boning casings; distressingly, I've only been able to find one needle-tip. Wish my feet luck.
The kirtle is a russet linen blend with a funny green coloured linen blend lining; the russet was originally a god-awful eye-assaulting salmonish colour, and the green was originally pink. It was an attempt at Dying Spaniard that was not entirely successful. I dyed with the only light green I could find, and then overdyed it with grey. I ended up with a non-quite-mint colour; I think I left it too long in the light green. I can't get the green to reproduce successfuly with the camera, though I got the russet reasonably well (though with a flash it looks quite brick red).
Pictures will be forthcoming in the morning, I suppose, when I can drag out the fabric into the light of day. Since I have webspace, I should probably use it for something useful, like dress diaries. Yeah, that's it.
On a completely different note, I watched Inside I'm Dancing aka Rory O'Shea Was Here last night. If you, like me, found yourself crushing on Mr. Tumnus (aka James McAvoy) while watching TLTWTW last Christmas, Mr. McAvoy was Rory. Smaller ears, though.
This particular event, a day of classes, is well beloved to me because it's a one day, inside event. I like those ones. A decreased chance of heat exhaustion is always better. The one deeply unfortunate thing about the event is that the three classes I'm most interested in all occur at the same time. Which means I'm going to have to decide between them. One is Basic Blackwork, which is a skill I've started on, but could frankly use some help on. The second is fingerloop braiding, which I'd really like to learn and haven't done anything more than look at a couple of websites. And the third is making an elizabethan washball. Now, I have absolutely no clue what an Elizabethan washball is (madinia?), but it sounds fun, doesn't it? I'm also torn between Bread and Butter making and period cold process soaps, which occur opposite each other at a different time. If anyone has any thoughts, please share.
This is my first stab at a front-closing kirtle, so wish me luck. I've already broken two needles while closing boning casings; distressingly, I've only been able to find one needle-tip. Wish my feet luck.
The kirtle is a russet linen blend with a funny green coloured linen blend lining; the russet was originally a god-awful eye-assaulting salmonish colour, and the green was originally pink. It was an attempt at Dying Spaniard that was not entirely successful. I dyed with the only light green I could find, and then overdyed it with grey. I ended up with a non-quite-mint colour; I think I left it too long in the light green. I can't get the green to reproduce successfuly with the camera, though I got the russet reasonably well (though with a flash it looks quite brick red).
Pictures will be forthcoming in the morning, I suppose, when I can drag out the fabric into the light of day. Since I have webspace, I should probably use it for something useful, like dress diaries. Yeah, that's it.
On a completely different note, I watched Inside I'm Dancing aka Rory O'Shea Was Here last night. If you, like me, found yourself crushing on Mr. Tumnus (aka James McAvoy) while watching TLTWTW last Christmas, Mr. McAvoy was Rory. Smaller ears, though.
