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The re-made red gown
Mar. 15th, 2017 07:06 pmI've taken it in 4-5 inches over the bust, letting it slope out from there to the hem. And remade the sleeves to fit the new armscyes.
Smaller boobs is a Very Good Thing!
Lots of remaking to do
Mar. 14th, 2017 11:15 pmAfter not making any (or at leat very few) medieval clothes for a long time, due mainly to having a lot of them already, I of course had to go an get obsessed about a year ago, making lots new clothes from ca 1300.
And now I have lost 18 kilos and will probably lose at least five more, and while you can wear this styel with very varying weight, they do look bette rif they're not too large over the bust. And since I have lost weight there too (hooray). I will have to remake a lot of clothes, including the shiny investiture gown. That will have to wait though, because I'm going to wear it this weekend and I don't want the stress of picking it apart and remaking it before Friday.
I have, however, started on this one. It's a bit easier, since it's not lined. Though more hand work since I have to fell seams again.
And now I have lost 18 kilos and will probably lose at least five more, and while you can wear this styel with very varying weight, they do look bette rif they're not too large over the bust. And since I have lost weight there too (hooray). I will have to remake a lot of clothes, including the shiny investiture gown. That will have to wait though, because I'm going to wear it this weekend and I don't want the stress of picking it apart and remaking it before Friday.
I have, however, started on this one. It's a bit easier, since it's not lined. Though more hand work since I have to fell seams again.
Diet update. And Italy.
Feb. 27th, 2017 09:01 amAs I mentioned in my last post I have had the cold from hell, though it's slowly going away. Which is good, because on Friday morning hubby and I are going to Florence (and Bologna) over the weekend. I am slightly worried about how Italian restaurant owners will deal with the fact that I'm not eating, it will appear impossibly rude. I might have to find someone to translate "Unfortunately I'm on a strict diet for medical reasons" for me. ;)
The diet is going well, though you wouldn't believe how much I crave lettuce. I have now lost 15,7 kgs (approx 34,6 pounds) and can fit into clothes I haven't worn for 4-5 years.
The diet is going well, though you wouldn't believe how much I crave lettuce. I have now lost 15,7 kgs (approx 34,6 pounds) and can fit into clothes I haven't worn for 4-5 years.
A Saturday
Feb. 25th, 2017 06:42 pmI think that my cold is gettting a little better, I don't feel like I am going to die all the time - or wish that I could ;) Today I even managed to go out, and stay out two hours in the freezing cold, again standing ready if the neo-nazis would march this Saturday.
Other than that all I've done today is to make potato gratin for Valeria and Maja. Rickard is in Norway playing X-wing, and Vendela is with her dad. I've also knitted a little, I'm on the final sleeve on my cardigan.
Tomorrow Alfhild is coming over to see if she wants something from the pile of clothes that I cleared out yesterday, when Rickard and I brought up boxes with spring/summer clothes, and clothes that used to be too small. Not that spring will come soon to Sweden, not even here in the southwest, but next Friday Rickard and I are going to Florence for the weekend (leaving Friday morning, going home Monday lunch) and while they maybe wouldn't call it spring, it is likely that it will be spring by Swedish standards, so I may need some clothes not made from wool :)
Two boxes were still too small and wer brough down to the storage again, and I box was filled with too large clothes instead. Because I may need them again, I'm being realistic.
Other than that all I've done today is to make potato gratin for Valeria and Maja. Rickard is in Norway playing X-wing, and Vendela is with her dad. I've also knitted a little, I'm on the final sleeve on my cardigan.
Tomorrow Alfhild is coming over to see if she wants something from the pile of clothes that I cleared out yesterday, when Rickard and I brought up boxes with spring/summer clothes, and clothes that used to be too small. Not that spring will come soon to Sweden, not even here in the southwest, but next Friday Rickard and I are going to Florence for the weekend (leaving Friday morning, going home Monday lunch) and while they maybe wouldn't call it spring, it is likely that it will be spring by Swedish standards, so I may need some clothes not made from wool :)
Two boxes were still too small and wer brough down to the storage again, and I box was filled with too large clothes instead. Because I may need them again, I'm being realistic.
-10 kg, and other stuff
Feb. 9th, 2017 02:41 pmToday I was at the hospital for my official weigh in - and I have lost 10,3 kgs since I started this diet on Boxing day.
It is also a good day in many other ways: It's snowing, and just below freezing and very pretty (though I really can't wait for spring to come), and for some reason I just felt better today, so good that I spent part of the morning dancing to old '80s and '90s tunes in my kitchen. In between doing some necessary job stuff. Skipping work (well, sort of) probably also contributed to my general well-being. But the best is the pain being back on a normal level, I hope this continues.
Today it's Gotvik's sewing meeting at my place (I hold them every fortnight) and I look forward to it. I have beads to sew around the neckline of my mint green kirtle, but I don't count on doing much, since I mostly try to help others on these meetings.
I have just put a pie in the oven for the family to eat tonight, so I won't have to cook during the meeting. I put left over bolognese sauce, another pasta sauce with cream, ham and broccoli, some corn and some tomatoes in a pie crust and then poured mixed egg, milk and shredded cheeses over it all. Should be good, and there's much more space in our fridge now.
It is also a good day in many other ways: It's snowing, and just below freezing and very pretty (though I really can't wait for spring to come), and for some reason I just felt better today, so good that I spent part of the morning dancing to old '80s and '90s tunes in my kitchen. In between doing some necessary job stuff. Skipping work (well, sort of) probably also contributed to my general well-being. But the best is the pain being back on a normal level, I hope this continues.
Today it's Gotvik's sewing meeting at my place (I hold them every fortnight) and I look forward to it. I have beads to sew around the neckline of my mint green kirtle, but I don't count on doing much, since I mostly try to help others on these meetings.
I have just put a pie in the oven for the family to eat tonight, so I won't have to cook during the meeting. I put left over bolognese sauce, another pasta sauce with cream, ham and broccoli, some corn and some tomatoes in a pie crust and then poured mixed egg, milk and shredded cheeses over it all. Should be good, and there's much more space in our fridge now.
Losing weight
Jan. 27th, 2017 06:12 pmOther stuff in my life is pretty messed up right now (I'll get back to that in a later post), but at least my life on Cambridge shakes works: I don't feel hungry and I've lost a lot of weight in those 4 weeks and four days from when I started until I was weighed today at the hospital.
Weight before I started, 22nd of December 97,4 kilos = 215 pounds
Weight the 9th of January: 94,4 kilos = 208 pounds
Weight today, 27th of January: 89,8 kilos = 198 pounds
I am very happy about this. And also that they had re-stocked their shakes, so that I could get other flavours of the shakes, because I was getting very bored. The vanilla version tastes like custard, very yummy.
Diet results, work, coronation etc
Jan. 9th, 2017 04:13 pmSo, 2 weeks on the diet equals 3 kilos of weight loss. I can live with that. Still not feeling hungry, and in fact it was rather practical while travelling to and from the coronation - all you needed was a shaker (or in this case my water bottle) and some water and you could eat anywhere. I'm sad that i missed the fabulous feast, but it was so beautiful, and the presentation was so spectacular that it was a feast for the eyes as well.
I hope to have the energy to write something about it later, but right now I am too tired. I left Ahtela in Finland at 6 am on Sunday (local time, 5 am Swedish time) and was home at 00.20 on Monday (Swedish time). Today I've been to the nurse about the weight loss programme and that's about it. I've tried to read the book "The Viking world" edited by Stefan Brink and Neil Price, but I keep falling asleep. We have it as course literature on a course I'm teaching, so I thought that I'd ought to read it. (Some of the articles annoy me too much to fall asleep though. You CAN NOT use 13th century written sources to prove anything about the 8th century. Or if you think you can: show me why you think it's possible. Thank the gods I will only teach the Middle Ages.)
If I'm lucky others will post their photos online that I cvan direct you to. Since I was mostly in public view I couldn't take many photos, just a few of myself after I've left the main hall.
I hope to have the energy to write something about it later, but right now I am too tired. I left Ahtela in Finland at 6 am on Sunday (local time, 5 am Swedish time) and was home at 00.20 on Monday (Swedish time). Today I've been to the nurse about the weight loss programme and that's about it. I've tried to read the book "The Viking world" edited by Stefan Brink and Neil Price, but I keep falling asleep. We have it as course literature on a course I'm teaching, so I thought that I'd ought to read it. (Some of the articles annoy me too much to fall asleep though. You CAN NOT use 13th century written sources to prove anything about the 8th century. Or if you think you can: show me why you think it's possible. Thank the gods I will only teach the Middle Ages.)
If I'm lucky others will post their photos online that I cvan direct you to. Since I was mostly in public view I couldn't take many photos, just a few of myself after I've left the main hall.
Fourth day
Dec. 29th, 2016 09:32 pmI still haven't felt hungry, but I miss a lot of tastes. I have no doubt that I can do this for 12 weeks, but by the Gods, how much I want dark sourdough bread! Or hummus. And garlic ;)
I haven't weighed myself yet, I decided to only do that once a week.
I haven't weighed myself yet, I decided to only do that once a week.
I am still not hungry, but I am tired and feel cold and queasy, though not all of the time. I also have a lot of pain, but I don't think it's related, I was getting worse already on Christmas Eve. So today I haven't done much: a short walk between the hospital and the bus stop, and then I've mostly knitted; I've started on my green Granville cardigan again. I was goign to start on a new scroll, but I felt tired and listened to Homeland by R.A Salvatore. It must be almost two decades since I last read any of his Forgotten Realms boks, and this triology I haven't read. Very interesting.
Giving up eating (for 12 weeks)
Dec. 26th, 2016 09:08 amWell, first of all: I am way too fat, just below 100 kilos. And just plain strength of character doesn't seem to work anymore, mostly because I'm in so much pain that I need that strength of character just to exist and to work. I have, however, been invited to a research project where they study the effect of weight loss on people with Psoriatic arthritis, so from topday and 12 weeks onward I am going to live on the Cambridge diet shakes.
It's a bit hard to start when the house is filled with home made goodies for Yule, but on the other hand you usually don't want to eat anything ever again after a few days of Yule gluttony ;)
It's a bit hard to start when the house is filled with home made goodies for Yule, but on the other hand you usually don't want to eat anything ever again after a few days of Yule gluttony ;)
Sewing therapy
Jun. 23rd, 2016 04:03 pmSo. I have gained enough weight not to be able to wear my folk costume tomorrow on Midsummer's Eve. it is annoying. And how do we deal with annoying stuff? We sew somethign! So now I'm going to make me a new dress. I just how to decide which model.
A mixed blessing
May. 9th, 2010 09:04 pmShould I be happy that my pink 18th century stays fit me perfectly, so that I won't have to make a new pair? And can use my old bodice pattern. Or should I bemoan the fact that I have regained the weight I lost two years ago?
(To be fair: since they are front-laced over a stomacher the fit is somewhat flexible and they could be smaller in the waist - as it is my waist is half an inch bigger with the stays on than without)
(To be fair: since they are front-laced over a stomacher the fit is somewhat flexible and they could be smaller in the waist - as it is my waist is half an inch bigger with the stays on than without)
Measurements
Oct. 19th, 2007 07:17 amInspired by a post by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marymont I took my measurements this morning and converted them properly to inches, not just using the approximation of 1"=2,5 cm. And here they are:
bust 42
waist 33
hips 43
And I weigh 160 lbs
It's much less than it has been for years really. And I have my period now, so in reality I am a little smaller than that.
One thing I wonder about is though, what do americans call the yard, feet, inches (as well as other measurements like pint etc) system? We call it "imperial measurements" when we talk about it (as opposed to metric), but what do you say?
marymont I took my measurements this morning and converted them properly to inches, not just using the approximation of 1"=2,5 cm. And here they are:bust 42
waist 33
hips 43
And I weigh 160 lbs
It's much less than it has been for years really. And I have my period now, so in reality I am a little smaller than that.
One thing I wonder about is though, what do americans call the yard, feet, inches (as well as other measurements like pint etc) system? We call it "imperial measurements" when we talk about it (as opposed to metric), but what do you say?
Where did they go?
Sep. 27th, 2007 12:33 pmI was planning to wear this outfit for the first time this weekend. Well, I goddam will! But my boobs will be hanging at my waist. (Since I'm 8 kilos lighter than when I made the dress it has NO breast support even if I let the sides overlap when lacing.) But the dress is too pretty not to be worn, I just hope my back won't complain; at least I will be wearing my effigy stays at the feast. The waist is large too, but okay, mainly because it's at my lowest rib and not at the actual waist. (It is actually at the waist and tummy/hips I've lost most.)
Of course I will take in the side seams and make it smaller later, but I won't have the time for that before the event. I've got two lectures and a small presentation to plan: one for saturday and two for monday.
Of course I will take in the side seams and make it smaller later, but I won't have the time for that before the event. I've got two lectures and a small presentation to plan: one for saturday and two for monday.
Another small sewing project
Jun. 26th, 2007 10:54 amOne of my skirts which made me look more slender than I really was when I was fatter now instead makes me look fatter than I am. It still fits, sort of, if I wear it down on the hips instead of at the waist, but it makes me look broad and clumsy. So I think it's time to take it apart and make it narrower, both as a whole and at the hem. As it is now it's sloping outwards from my hips, but I think I will make it go in slightly from my broadest point instead. The good thing is that I probably won't have to take out the zipper, but can do the changes in the side seams and back darts.
I think I will have to pick up the sewing machine today.
I think I will have to pick up the sewing machine today.
Too fat for my dress
Jan. 12th, 2007 09:47 amSo I need to loose weight. I can still get into my Anthonis Mor dress. ( photo behind cut )
But it's not exactly comfortable. And that is my absolute favourite dress and I've only worn it to two events.
I think I weighed about 4 kilos less when I made the dress, but any weight loss will of course help. So, more vegetables, less pasta/rice and no seconds. Nylöse is arranging Nordrike's Riksdag (AGM) on the 14th of april. My plan is that it should fit me better and that I will wear it then.
But it's not exactly comfortable. And that is my absolute favourite dress and I've only worn it to two events.
I think I weighed about 4 kilos less when I made the dress, but any weight loss will of course help. So, more vegetables, less pasta/rice and no seconds. Nylöse is arranging Nordrike's Riksdag (AGM) on the 14th of april. My plan is that it should fit me better and that I will wear it then.
I have tried on my old corsets. Both the hemp cord one I'm wearing here and my original corsets made from the instructions on The elizabethan costuming page. And I'm too fat. At least for the "real" corset. I need to be able to comfortable tighten it about an inch more. The hemp cord corset met at the back but has other issues, like not fitting good at the bust area, so I actually threw it away. I knew I wouldn't be satisfied with it, even if I changed some stuff. I plan to be able to wear my other corset again because all my elizabethan costumes are based on it and it would be a shame not being able to wear them again. I will not start attacking my overweight seriously until after I've stopped nursing Maja though, since all the poisons in your body that are released as you loose weight will go over to the milk. If I manage to loose weight I might not be able to wear my effigy corset, but I guess it would be worth it, or that I could change it a little. It is pretty tight now so maybe a little less fat wouldn't be a big problem.
