Look for my website soon* at clothinghistory.net

* The word "soon" is subjective. Very subjective. On purpose.

I know I said I would post musings about grad school, and I will. It's just been a busy day at work and I haven't had time to marshal my thoughts properly.

J! thinks he might be getting whatever it is I have (please, NOOOOOO!), and I'm beat after my first day out, so we're staying home practice tonight. aastag should roll her eyes anyway, tho. ;)

Especially the part about the sake
( meme )

I am feeling better this morning, and planning on going to work. I don't know if I'll make through the entire day, but I am going to try.

Meantime, while our heroine was lost in DVD-world (I watched *all* of Elizabeth R yesterday)...
- The Frankenbdice is finished, and the sleeves are set. I am not going to set the skirt until the weather cools off enough that a lapful of wool is bearable.
- I cut an experimental pattern for a closed hood out of plum wool, which still needs to be sewn up to see if it works.
- I made a 15th c. Flemish tailed cap(which I have been dying to do). Easy-peasy, yes, but I've been avoiding it. I want to make a red linen hood next, but I need to cut my kirtle out of the red linen first, which means developing a decent pattern for it.
- I did a new Venetian pair of bodies type-thingy. All of it. I used Ysa's pattern, cut figured sage silk and linen interlinings, sewed em up, used cable ties for boning (for the first time) and bound the edges. Only eyelets left to go. If I'm feeling well enough to go to practice tonight, I'll bring it with me. (I like the sage better than the gold with the bottle green fabric - I still plan on finishing the gold, though I may chat on the eyelets for expediency's sake. Which means aastag is totally going to mock me. Or tear the thing out of my hands and do the eyelets herself.>

Now that I know how quickly I can do pairs of bodies, I desperately want to start on the Dorothea pair with the reeds. Which I am avoiding for two reasons: first, I need a friend to help me fit it, and second, I cannot decide what fabric to use. Somebody make a suggestion? Please?

shut3rg33k has graciously agreed to do a photo shoot of my work. Especially since I need to get together a portfolio for grad school. (Right - I made a decision about grad schools. I'll post on that later, because it's going to take a bit. Plus, I read attacklaurel's post on websites this morning and felt appropriately ashamed of myself.) If I agreed to help you with something or make you something that isn't a commission, I'd like to get cracking on it. :-) From the most recent to longest owed, I can think that I should make something for Niall (for watching kitties while we gallivanted off to Pennsic), something for Bryne (who made stuff for J!), something for ppuf, a pair of bodies for the thinning DD, and a cotehardie or two for tafelspitz. If I committed to something, and it's not on that list, please speak now!

EDIT: cotte pattern for syele

Sheesh - now I want to stay home and sew again. Can't I please win the lottery?

This is a particularly nasty bug. I stayed home yesterday, and am staying home again today, because I am still running a fever off-and-on. It's not strep throat, it's a particularly nasty virus that is, as per my usual weakened lungs (thank you, Ren Faire dust,) turning into bronchitis. I did actually the whole night through, though, as opposed to waking myself up with sweats, coughing, and/or the feeling of a weight on my chest. I know I'm getting better, but it's sloooooow.

Staying home 3.5 days in the last two weeks is going to play havoc with my finances. Well, I think it's always best to treat your health as though you are rich, and deal with any repercussions once you're healthy, right?

I still have no energy, so I'm doing brain-dead projects. The up-side of staying home yesterday is that the Frankenbodice is almost done. All I need to do is stitch down the back-side seams, and then set the sleeves and skirt back on. After that, I'll make underwear or I'll hem something, I guess.

Despite the sickies, I'm really glad I went to Purg. Weather was lovely, I got in some quality time with the fealty shrub, and even managed to talk a little franchise, which was good prep. It certainly did not help my cold, however.

Yesterday I was not fit for consumption by man nor beast. I did corset exercises, which are more mental than physical. I now have a copy of Ysa's pattern, a straight copy of the Dorothea Sabina, a Dorothea sized up to fit me, and a second option of the Dorothea cut from linen canvas. Also a Venetian-silhouetted bodies is cut out and awaiting construction. I always forget how fast pairs of bodies are. Well, until you get to the eyelets, anyway. Unfortunately, none of that completely assuaged my sewing brain. So I ripped apart the bodice of the sea-green dress and got started on re-sizing it.

( and I shall call her... Frankenbodice! )

That's what I fell like, and definitely what I look like at the moment. I am going to bed. Please, be gentle with me at Purg tomorrow.

I'm sick. Again or still, I'm not sure, but I ran a fever all day yesterday and today is nasty-stuffy-head-day. I'd stay home and sleep, but I'm a contractor now. Speaking of which, I HATE quarterly taxes.

I think I'll post more after the coffee and the cold medicine kick in. It's Friday, I should be jazzed.

I will not be doing the round table at Purg. If there's space, I will be doing one on Franchise at Collegium, and one on Largesse at 12th Night, and a reprise of the Consorting class at Jingles. There will be another round table at March Crown, virtue TBD If you would like to help or co-host at any of these, please let me know

Hey mermaidinblack, are you doing the class schedule for fall collegium? And is there space? If so, I'd like to add the Franchise round table. I should be down for three classes then: First 12th Night Garb, the round table on Franchise, and The Writings of Ramon Lull (co-teaching with J!)

Since there's two classes on chivalric virtue/history of chivalry there, is there interest on full track on the "Virtues?" I can help scare up teachers for an additonal two classes if needed.

Due to the fact that we are day-tripping Purg (that's P-U-R-G), and the fact that there are two tournaments going on when the round table would take place, I am considering delaying it. It's B4B at October Crown, which is going to keep me quite busy enough... but maybe I could do it at Collegium? That would put me up to teaching three classes, but I can do that.

What I really want to know is:
How many of you were planning on attending? (or even remembered it was going to happen?)*

*If there's critical mass, then I will go ahead and hold it at 1 PM.

Anyone want a roll of black silk chiffon? At a guess there's at least 4 yards on it, maybe more. I'll bring it to Purg if you do.

( I'm my own worst critic, and I have proof )

( Coraline )

I am going to spend my Labor Day weekend watching all the summer movies that I haven't seen yet: Dark Knight, Mummy 3, Clone Wars, Hamlet 2 and who knows what else. Heck, maybe I'll be able to knock one off the list tonight, but my week is pretty planned out:
Monday: home and sleep this off
Tuesday: sewing night
Wednesday: Teufelberg practice
Thursday: There's some reason I have to be at Rockridge, but I can't remember what it is
Friday: get ready for Purgatorio (see jimr, I can spell it, too!)

Righty-o - will keep my costume-related stuff in this journal instead of breaking it out. Thanks, folks!

I didn't get much done this weekend, and am still feeling under the weather (yes I heard you, ppuf.) I woke up grumpy again this morning, but did manage to get some momentum on sewing... for 45 minutes, until I had to go to work. The entire universe was conspiring to get me to stay home: I felt blah, I actually really wanted to sew, BART was late, and there was no-one in the office when I got here... and now I'm killing time for two more hours, because they haven't handed off any projects yet, and there's only so much document review I can do.

What I did manage to accomplish over the weekend was:
- That last pesky pair of blue stockings. I will not need to make linen stockings for years, now.
- Sleeve patterning with apprentice K
- Hems marked and cut on the wool tunics
- Last of the linings cut for the Hatton Project

If I'm not feeling better tomorrow, I'm staying home.

Should I have a separate SCA/costume filter? Tell me your thoughts...

I think it's going to be a quiet weekend after all. I woke up grumpy. And achey. Apparently, with a low-grade fever, which shouldn't be surprising given my pace this last week. So I begged off sewing with K today (I don't want to get the mini-minion sick,) ate a decent breakfast, chatted online with carbonphenix (who is posting the most amazing pics from Germany and making me totally jealous,) and started in on the mountain of Pennsic laundry. I'm going to have a quiet lunch with the other Wendy, and then come home, watch movies, and do handwork. J! is off at his parents doing some home improvement stuff for the rest of the day.

Last night we had dinner with friends at Oliveto - delicious, as usual. We had:
- Burrata (it's a cheese) with French Filet beans, almonds, and tomato vinaigrette - this was the hit of the evening for me.
- Gnocchetti with Tomales Bay Manila clams, tomato concassé, and garlic - lovely, the clams were sweet, the tomato what it should be, but the balance of the garlic was little off. A titch more or a titch less would have been perfect.
- Charcoal-grilled pancetta-wrapped Jones Farm rabbit with Flageolet beans and Bianca di Maggio onions - they do excellent rabbit. The beans were more salty than I expected, but a nice complement.
- Warm Gravenstein Apple Charlotte with crème anglaise and Wild Blackberry Sauce - lighter than air pastry, happy apples, and the blackberry was a perfect foil. Yummy, yummy.
- Chocolate and Cream meringata - good, but not a repeat like the apple charlotte.
There are two things I need to remember at Oliveto: 1) The appetizers are usually my favorite things, 2) Always get the fruit desserts.

Nothing else to report.

I just ordered three books on the Housebook Master:
1. Hess, Daniel: Meister Um Das mittelalterliche Hausbuch: Studien Zur Hausbuchmeisterfrage
2. Seebohm, Almuth and Christoph Waldburg Wolfegg: Venus and Mars: The World of the Medieval Housebook
3. Kok, Jan Piet Filedt: The Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet, or the Housebook Master 1470-1500

I am a doofus. I totally let the Franchise Round Table slip to the back of my mind, and now I have less than 2 weeks to continue the research. Yipes!

In sewing news, here's what's up through October:
1. SL's Outfit of Excess
2. Finish Flemish 15th c bits - last pair of linen stockings, linen coif, linen hood, wool hood, new smock. Adjust the kirtle pattern if I have time.
3. Get the pumpkin velveteen Cranach finished - 11 years in a box is quite enough.
4. Start a housebook dress (heike's class did that to me. I came home desperately wanting to sew.)

Bankrupt My Pants!
[info]tattercoats asks, "Can we have an acronym for, 'been away, not catching up on the flist, point me at it if there's anything you need me to see'?"

[info]fleetfootmike acknowledges with:
That'd be 'BANCUOTFPMAIITAYNMTS'.
Which reads disturbingly like 'bankrupt my pants'.