My holiday is over. I've made some progress! On my embroidery that is.
I'm really pleased with how it's turning out. The only thing is that I'm making a rectangle so that when it's finished I'll fold it in half to make the pouch, with the fold being the bottom of the pouch, which means that the bottom of the embroidery will be one of the top edges, which means that the green motif will be upside down! If I'd been clever and realised this in advance, I would've stitched half of it upside down so that when I folded it both sides of the pouch would have motifs facing the same way. I guess I could still make it so the motifs all face the same way, and it probably doesn't matter that they'll be upside down because it's just me that's decided what the right way and the wrong way is. It might bother me though. These are the type of important things that I need to ponder when I should be doing other things, like prepping for clinical placement tomorrow.
Yep, my holidays are all gone and I've not done anything at all. I can't really bring myself to care all that much either. I'll probably start caring when I'm a fortnight out from Rowany Festival, completely overloaded with uni work and I suddenly decide that I just can't face going without three new cotehardies and hoods. As wardrobes go, I've got a pretty good one for a week at a camping event. I also know that what I have now fits into half a suitcase. Even though I have enough outfits in half a suitcase to wear something different every day, it doesn't fill a suitcase so clearly I am failing at SCA.
I did make a really big effort about a week and a half ago to work on my list. I pulled apart my green brocade surcote. Sleeves came off, buttons came off, the whole front seam was pulled apart and the hems along the front and around the neckline where unpicked. Then it got bundled up into a pile on the couch next to my black drill and my cotehardie pattern, all ready to start actually working on it. And there it remains. I'd actually like to wear it to the Midsummer Feast on the first of February, which is two weeks away, so I really should start working on it. I think about working on it nearly every day. If I'd done as much work as I'd thought about, I'd have three brocade surcotes all ready to wear. Also, it looks like the extra side panels I put in a while ago are staying, seeing as I snipped the top of the gores that I attached them to. I was going to pull them out because they don't really do much, but that would mean shortening the gores and I already learned that short gores are a bad idea. So they're staying. I'm not going to finish any of the seams though, because I'm putting a lining in they should be fine.
In other news, I did buy some linen this morning. I bought another lot of the Autumn Gold colour from fabric-store.com to remake my gold cotehardie. I love the colour and I never wear the one I currently have because I made it from an earlier pattern and it's just so uncomfortable. I spent quite a bit of time adjusting it and making new sleeves for it too, but I think I'm just going to have to write it off. It looks really good, but I never wear it because it's not worth the uncomfortable. I also end up with the points of my shoulders and the fronts of my armpits being really sore after I've worn it despite the fact that I've cut down the armholes multiple times. I have a bunch of cotehardies that have contributed to my learning process and helped me get to my current pattern and comfortable wardrobe, and I guess that's worth the time and effort it took to make them even though I'm never going to wear them again.
In other news, remember a few entries back I told you to stay tuned for Awesome Bag the Sequel: Awesome Box? I also bought a yard of a new linen that fabric-store.com has released. It's the same weight as the ILO19 that I've been using for my cotehardies, but it's a better quality and an even weave fabric. It's quite a bit more expensive per yard, so I thought I'd just buy a yard of it to use for embroidery and see what it's like. Anyway, the point is that it's not a square even weave, which is the kind of linen that the extant example my project will be based on has.
Hopefully the next time I post I will have actually done some stuff rather than just thinking about doing some stuff, which should be far more interesting to read about :)
I'm really pleased with how it's turning out. The only thing is that I'm making a rectangle so that when it's finished I'll fold it in half to make the pouch, with the fold being the bottom of the pouch, which means that the bottom of the embroidery will be one of the top edges, which means that the green motif will be upside down! If I'd been clever and realised this in advance, I would've stitched half of it upside down so that when I folded it both sides of the pouch would have motifs facing the same way. I guess I could still make it so the motifs all face the same way, and it probably doesn't matter that they'll be upside down because it's just me that's decided what the right way and the wrong way is. It might bother me though. These are the type of important things that I need to ponder when I should be doing other things, like prepping for clinical placement tomorrow.
Yep, my holidays are all gone and I've not done anything at all. I can't really bring myself to care all that much either. I'll probably start caring when I'm a fortnight out from Rowany Festival, completely overloaded with uni work and I suddenly decide that I just can't face going without three new cotehardies and hoods. As wardrobes go, I've got a pretty good one for a week at a camping event. I also know that what I have now fits into half a suitcase. Even though I have enough outfits in half a suitcase to wear something different every day, it doesn't fill a suitcase so clearly I am failing at SCA.
I did make a really big effort about a week and a half ago to work on my list. I pulled apart my green brocade surcote. Sleeves came off, buttons came off, the whole front seam was pulled apart and the hems along the front and around the neckline where unpicked. Then it got bundled up into a pile on the couch next to my black drill and my cotehardie pattern, all ready to start actually working on it. And there it remains. I'd actually like to wear it to the Midsummer Feast on the first of February, which is two weeks away, so I really should start working on it. I think about working on it nearly every day. If I'd done as much work as I'd thought about, I'd have three brocade surcotes all ready to wear. Also, it looks like the extra side panels I put in a while ago are staying, seeing as I snipped the top of the gores that I attached them to. I was going to pull them out because they don't really do much, but that would mean shortening the gores and I already learned that short gores are a bad idea. So they're staying. I'm not going to finish any of the seams though, because I'm putting a lining in they should be fine.
In other news, I did buy some linen this morning. I bought another lot of the Autumn Gold colour from fabric-store.com to remake my gold cotehardie. I love the colour and I never wear the one I currently have because I made it from an earlier pattern and it's just so uncomfortable. I spent quite a bit of time adjusting it and making new sleeves for it too, but I think I'm just going to have to write it off. It looks really good, but I never wear it because it's not worth the uncomfortable. I also end up with the points of my shoulders and the fronts of my armpits being really sore after I've worn it despite the fact that I've cut down the armholes multiple times. I have a bunch of cotehardies that have contributed to my learning process and helped me get to my current pattern and comfortable wardrobe, and I guess that's worth the time and effort it took to make them even though I'm never going to wear them again.
In other news, remember a few entries back I told you to stay tuned for Awesome Bag the Sequel: Awesome Box? I also bought a yard of a new linen that fabric-store.com has released. It's the same weight as the ILO19 that I've been using for my cotehardies, but it's a better quality and an even weave fabric. It's quite a bit more expensive per yard, so I thought I'd just buy a yard of it to use for embroidery and see what it's like. Anyway, the point is that it's not a square even weave, which is the kind of linen that the extant example my project will be based on has.
Hopefully the next time I post I will have actually done some stuff rather than just thinking about doing some stuff, which should be far more interesting to read about :)
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