Sewing list

[frualeydis]

Whenever I'm bored, like at seminars and uninteresting lectures I tend to make lists of what I plan to sew. Then I go back to them and put an X after them when I've finished that item. Or cross it out if I've changed my mind. Lately I've also sometimes added a note on to which event I want it finished.

Well, here it my latest list. Since I got pregnant I lost some of my "sew drive" (if one can have sex-drive, of course one can have "sew drive") so the general deadline is "before summer". Some things, like clothes and shoes for my twins, can't be made longer than 1 month before they're supposed to be used or you can be sure they've outgrown them.

* A Herjolfsnes dress of dark green handwoven wool. Hand sewn. Current status: Hemming + sleeves left to do.

* A 12th century dress of thin blue silk taffeta and broad trim in black, pink and peacocks woven with brass thread (sari trim). I probably make this entirely by hand because my sewing machine don't get along well with very thin fabrics. I also like the sense of control

* Hoods to Valeria and Vendela of handwoven wool, also hand sewn

* Linen swaddling cloth for the baby (which isn't born)

* Loose kirtle for my 16th century flemish dress

* Headwear for the same

* New smocks/shifts for Vendela and Valeria

* Shoes for Vendela and Valeria (definitely not before June). I might pay someone else to make them, shoemaking and arthritis isn't exactly an ideal combination.

* Sewn wool stockings to the girls. This far they've used modern socks in neutral colours, or more likely no socks, but I hope their feet will stop growing so fast so there will be a point in making more ambitious footwear to them.

* Wool tunic to the baby (I've already made a pale yellow linen tunic)

* Coif for the baby.

* Finish a very pale green chainse, which is my first try where the fabric is pleated finely to a band around the neck. I havent attached sleeves yet. Entirely hand sewn.

* A red 12th century dress of a little heavier wool to wear at winter events. It will be in the "bliaut-style" with sidelacing and long hanging sleeves.

Just a short list ;)

Anyhow, if I feel like I do now, I should be happy if I make anything except the green Herjolfsnes dress and the children's clothes. 12th century looks so beautiful with a big belly though and I've sold most of my old 12th century dresses because I either wasn't happy with the way they turned out or had outgrown them

Eva

Comments

[guyelfkin.livejournal.com]

I make lists of unfinished projects and whjat still needs to be done on each, and by when (if there's a deadline for any of them).

Mostly, I come across the lists when I'm leafing through that notebook (I have loads of notebooks on the go at a time 'cos I start a new one if I can't find an exisitng one then find the exisiting ones) weeks or months later and then cross out the stuff I've done, or try not to sob when I realize I haven't done anything on any of them and have several more unfinished projects to add to the list.

I think my main problem is the inability to get back to projects that have been interupted (if a more urgent deadline rears it's head, for example) and put aside. I've been known to start and finish entirely new outfits just as a way of avoiding working on an interupted one.

[jenthompson.livejournal.com]

Yep. I'm a list maker too. My costuming to-do list is about a mile long. But since it takes me a year to finish anything, I seem to add about 3 new costumes for every one that I can cross off! I really need to win the lottery so I can stay home and sew all day.

[sckaye.livejournal.com]

So relieved to hear I'm not the only one who does that...when one of my lectures gets boring, I make a list of the things I want to sew and than either break each project down into individual steps and when I need to complete that step (I never actually follow these lists- I'm so bad) or sketch ideas. The margins of my notebooks get so full!