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martelvoncI must do these lists to keep myself on track. So you can ignore me or read at your will.
Here is the current update on the project list-
My Opus Anglicanum Project is moving right along with the lion motif done and the border laid out and started. This is quite a large project but I look forward to finishing it as it will become a removeable cover for one of the many 3 ring binders I use. There are still a lot of hours involved here though. The embroidery frame and equipment has become a fixture beside my desk in the dining room. My family has become resigned to this.
I am also getting ready to start a super secret project. It is not for any reason other than I wish to make this thing but I cannot use it in the SCA. The time period is not right for how I usually dress. Besides the design will be very person specific and if I work on it at events the person will know it is just for them. Being a process artisan, I will have gotten the enjoyment of making the thing and then I will be happy to let someone else have the enjoyment of owning it. I have a cunning plan on how I will present the item. *insert evil laugh here.
I will be making some very tiny (2.5"x3.5") very later period goldwork bookcovers soon also. A friend expressed a secret desire to have one of my book covers and since I want to make 3 others, I will frame up a peice of velvet large enough to do all four at the same time. Once again the process needleworker raises it's ugly head. I will make it for the joy of making it and then I can give them away. This time though I am making one for me. *GASP!*
My bone carving has been on hold most of the winter. Due to the problem of bone dust I prefer to work out side so the change to spring weather will be most welcome. I'm just about done my pearl medallion and I'm about 1/2 way through my bone cloak pin. I'm also working on roughing out dice. The dice are so I can play stealth yatzee at events. I have a bunch of other small items I'd like to make. This is a time passer for when my embroidery brain needs a break.
You may think I have a lot of burners going all at once. It's true, I do, but I find I cannot work non-stop on one project. I need the mental break of rotating through a couple of things. Believe me I have more projects I want to do but I refuse to start theme until these projects are completed.
Somewhere in all of this I must make some new garb. I have two outfits planned, fabric purchased and ready to go. I need to purchase fabric for a third but this one but it needs a bit more research. I am not a great costumer but I am a servicable costumer. My fabrics are not always totally *period* in fiber content but I look passable. Not nearly as good as some but better than others.
That is all the news that is fit to print for today.
Here is the current update on the project list-
My Opus Anglicanum Project is moving right along with the lion motif done and the border laid out and started. This is quite a large project but I look forward to finishing it as it will become a removeable cover for one of the many 3 ring binders I use. There are still a lot of hours involved here though. The embroidery frame and equipment has become a fixture beside my desk in the dining room. My family has become resigned to this.
I am also getting ready to start a super secret project. It is not for any reason other than I wish to make this thing but I cannot use it in the SCA. The time period is not right for how I usually dress. Besides the design will be very person specific and if I work on it at events the person will know it is just for them. Being a process artisan, I will have gotten the enjoyment of making the thing and then I will be happy to let someone else have the enjoyment of owning it. I have a cunning plan on how I will present the item. *insert evil laugh here.
I will be making some very tiny (2.5"x3.5") very later period goldwork bookcovers soon also. A friend expressed a secret desire to have one of my book covers and since I want to make 3 others, I will frame up a peice of velvet large enough to do all four at the same time. Once again the process needleworker raises it's ugly head. I will make it for the joy of making it and then I can give them away. This time though I am making one for me. *GASP!*
My bone carving has been on hold most of the winter. Due to the problem of bone dust I prefer to work out side so the change to spring weather will be most welcome. I'm just about done my pearl medallion and I'm about 1/2 way through my bone cloak pin. I'm also working on roughing out dice. The dice are so I can play stealth yatzee at events. I have a bunch of other small items I'd like to make. This is a time passer for when my embroidery brain needs a break.
You may think I have a lot of burners going all at once. It's true, I do, but I find I cannot work non-stop on one project. I need the mental break of rotating through a couple of things. Believe me I have more projects I want to do but I refuse to start theme until these projects are completed.
Somewhere in all of this I must make some new garb. I have two outfits planned, fabric purchased and ready to go. I need to purchase fabric for a third but this one but it needs a bit more research. I am not a great costumer but I am a servicable costumer. My fabrics are not always totally *period* in fiber content but I look passable. Not nearly as good as some but better than others.
That is all the news that is fit to print for today.
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Yatzee
Date: 2007-03-11 03:04 pm (UTC)You have me really curious as to what projects you're working on that you can't tell everyone about. Would it be at all fair to play the Laurel Card and insist? Probably not. *sigh*
Speaking of the Laurel Card, if you need help researching or planning garb for yourself I'd be more than willing to help. That IS my area of expertise, so what else am I here for? You're a busy Baroness now. Don't feel you have to do everything all by yourself.
Re: Yatzee
Date: 2007-03-11 04:31 pm (UTC)It's not that I *can't* tell but if I tell it won't be as much fun for me. Nope, no Laurel Cards will be accepted today.
Hey that's right, you ARE a costuming laurel! LOL!
Okay, I need some help with some more information on fabrics for a 13th century mongolian outfit for our event in May. Men and women wore the same style. I am not going to make the fancy wigs that were sometimes worn at the time. I know where I'm going to get the patern. But I'm not sure about fabric weaves, brocades, colors, etc. I also need information on how the pants are cut. The boots I'm going to have to fake for now. Real mongolian boots that look just the period ones are a bit pricier that I can do for one garb accessory.
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Date: 2007-03-11 03:38 pm (UTC)What she said! :) Your Excellency, you have a Barony who is more than willing to step in at a moments notice to help. Just point and tell us what you need done and we'll either do it or send it to someone who knows how to do what you want.
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Date: 2007-03-11 04:36 pm (UTC)If I know someone is taking thier time to help me I will stay on task and get the work done. That way I won't waste time......
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Date: 2007-03-11 06:02 pm (UTC)Even if you're outdoors, if you use any power tools to shape the bone, please invest in a respirator! Mine cost under thirty bucks at Menard's. If you're just using files and such, it's more trouble than it's worth, but bone dust is just a bit scary to me!
How do you get the bone? For that matter, how thick are the dice? I've never found a bone whose walls are thick enough for a regular sized die, but that could just be what I've been getting from the butcher. (I'm hoping to finally make a pair of lon dice)
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Date: 2007-03-11 07:09 pm (UTC)I get most of my cow bone from the pet store. Everytime I walk into one I check out the clean bleached bone rack. You can get thicker bone if keep an eye out. I avoid the flavor basted or stuffed bones. These are too much of a pain to clean. Ebay is a source I search for bone and then there is "Moscow Hide and Fur". They have an extensive & ever changing supply of animal bones.
I have bone that I can make dice about 1/4" in size. Most period dice are only about this size. Some slightly bigger, some smaller.
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Date: 2007-03-11 07:48 pm (UTC)I get the bone from a but cher shop about twenty miles away. They save the largest bones they find for me and are just tickled that someone is using the bone for something other than dog toys.
I stay away from Ebay after my last encounter selling thru them.
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Date: 2007-03-11 08:14 pm (UTC)raw bone is more effort than I want to put into it! LOL!
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Date: 2007-03-11 10:22 pm (UTC)I envy the vocalness of your barony. sometimes feel like I'm talking in the void for all of the responses I get. Lucky Baroness!
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Date: 2007-03-11 10:52 pm (UTC)We are vocal aren't we! LOL! Sometimes good and sometimes not so good but we work things out in the end. I found that when the group sees things happen for them they become more interested. I'd rather not think we are just a curmudgeony bunch! :-)
e-bay
Date: 2007-03-12 05:45 am (UTC)Re: e-bay
Date: 2007-03-12 11:07 am (UTC)Re: e-bay
Date: 2007-03-12 04:01 pm (UTC)