Inspiration and lack thereof

[liadethornegge]

Well, I've come to a dead stop in my sewing. Once I hung up the kirtle I lost any sort of momentum I had - and I had plenty. I tried to pick up the silk veil that I have cut out and hem it. I came a third of the way. It's tiny, fiddly, fluid, and booooring.

I glanced over the list of my other projects and made faces at them.

I even became so unfocused as to (again!) forget how to use the delete-key properly. Augh! (mini-rcof)

Old stuff to mend is boring, whereas starting up a whole new! shiny! exciting! project seems more and more appealing to me. But I know, if I start another new one I will never get around to doing anything on the niggle-list.

Helwig said to me that the kirtle would be perfect to bring to the Civil War event, so I now have a deadline for that project (also a ride - hurray). I see no problem whatsoever accomplishing that, seeing as how I only have to mount skirt to bodice and hem it now. No eyelets and nothing else left. With this in mind I thought I'd start implementing my plan of single-period per event and bring only selected items from my late period wardrobe:

• surcote lining kirtle
• a chemise or two
• ropa to put on if I go outside to watch fighting and it turns chilly
• petticoat skirt
• shirt?
• doublet?
• partlets, sleeves, coif, cap, apron and shoes (my lovely period shoes!)
• knitted wool socks
  

For the ropa I think I have pretty much decided to make a pair of sleeves of the green brocade (the smaller darker cut in the same pattern as my tudor court gown that is, not the other one). A pair of snug sleeves seems to be the way to go, looking at my ropa inspiration images. With luck I'll be able to get a forepart out of the same cut as well - but we'll see.

Was also a good webminister and updated the shire webpage and sent the changes in to my new upload liaison. Who knows how long that'll take to go live.

And my flist is a little slow at the moment - nobody is posting pretty pictures to look at!