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The first week of the year
Jan. 8th, 2018 07:31 amI haven't posted for ages (well, a week), I've been away from the computer a lot: sewing, knitting, celebrating full moon, taking long walks with hubby, hanging with friends, making the baronial newsletter etc.
Generally very good stuff.
I made a pair of 40s trousers on the day before Christmas eve and a blouse on New Year's day (photo below). I have also knit one pair of slippers for one of my coven members and started on a new pair for another. The partlet for Valeria's Eleonora outift was finished on New Year's Day, but she has had a bad cold and also mostly been at here dad's, so I haven't had the opportunity to photograph it on her. Hopefully that will happen this week.
The trousers and blouse.
The inspiration for the blouse was this 1930s sewing pattern. I only had this image, but starting from an old, too large, blouse pattern, it wasn't too complicated to make a new pattern. Usueful thing to have also.
I have also actually been working, writing on a grant application that is due on the 24th of January. I will ask you for input later, I depend on my native English speaking friends. Final corrections on an article for an anthology on sumptuary law was also done, but I need to write image captions - that will happen today, when I get back to work properly - actually going to the university, and actually openeing my e-mail.
Friday I decided that making new kitchen curtains was a good idea. I was going to dig out some fabric for a new 15th century velvet gown, but when looking for the velvet scraps I saw the cotton print that I bought this summer to make kitchen curtains, and since I don't change curtains very often I thought that it would be a good idea if they were finished when I take down the christmas curtains next Friday (the traditional time for taking down all christmas decorations in Sweden is the 13th of January).So I made curtains.
But I also started on the bodice of the gown and finished the lacing holes on the bodice on saturday when I went with some friends to visit some other friends who live in the countryside, for sewing and socializing. The main purpose of that visit was that the next baron, Johan, really needed joined hose, since he's doing 15th century Italian. The current baron also need those so we all applied to the expertise of our friend Ida, who does landsknecht costuming. I had planned to learn by helping out with the pattern for Måns' hose, but in the end only Johan's hose pattern was made, so I ate cookies and sewed on my own stuff. Måns and I plan to return on the 20th to make his pattern. I want to make such hose for Rickard too, so this time I will have to be more involved so that I actually learn how to make them.
Yesterday I started planning the feast for St. Egon, but that will be another post. Now I probably should finish my cup of tea and get dressed and get to work.
Generally very good stuff.
I made a pair of 40s trousers on the day before Christmas eve and a blouse on New Year's day (photo below). I have also knit one pair of slippers for one of my coven members and started on a new pair for another. The partlet for Valeria's Eleonora outift was finished on New Year's Day, but she has had a bad cold and also mostly been at here dad's, so I haven't had the opportunity to photograph it on her. Hopefully that will happen this week.
The trousers and blouse.
The inspiration for the blouse was this 1930s sewing pattern. I only had this image, but starting from an old, too large, blouse pattern, it wasn't too complicated to make a new pattern. Usueful thing to have also.
I have also actually been working, writing on a grant application that is due on the 24th of January. I will ask you for input later, I depend on my native English speaking friends. Final corrections on an article for an anthology on sumptuary law was also done, but I need to write image captions - that will happen today, when I get back to work properly - actually going to the university, and actually openeing my e-mail.
Friday I decided that making new kitchen curtains was a good idea. I was going to dig out some fabric for a new 15th century velvet gown, but when looking for the velvet scraps I saw the cotton print that I bought this summer to make kitchen curtains, and since I don't change curtains very often I thought that it would be a good idea if they were finished when I take down the christmas curtains next Friday (the traditional time for taking down all christmas decorations in Sweden is the 13th of January).
But I also started on the bodice of the gown and finished the lacing holes on the bodice on saturday when I went with some friends to visit some other friends who live in the countryside, for sewing and socializing. The main purpose of that visit was that the next baron, Johan, really needed joined hose, since he's doing 15th century Italian. The current baron also need those so we all applied to the expertise of our friend Ida, who does landsknecht costuming. I had planned to learn by helping out with the pattern for Måns' hose, but in the end only Johan's hose pattern was made, so I ate cookies and sewed on my own stuff. Måns and I plan to return on the 20th to make his pattern. I want to make such hose for Rickard too, so this time I will have to be more involved so that I actually learn how to make them.
Yesterday I started planning the feast for St. Egon, but that will be another post. Now I probably should finish my cup of tea and get dressed and get to work.