Wishlist 2011

[liadethornegge]

Events can sometimes be about hard work, but almost always I come back from them with inspiration, and the first event of the new year, 12th Night Coronation of Vitus and Eleanora, was no exception.

On the flight back to the Frozen North I started a list of things I want to do this year, starting with a bunch of stuff that needs finishing:

First of all, the backlog:

• Helwig's Laurel scroll
• Filippa's Coif (forehead cloth is finished)
• SvartulvR's scroll (commissioned, and planned for)
• Re-do the hem on my plum wool GFD, the lining's showing

Then the new things I want to/have promised to make:

• Award scroll for Doublewars
• 15th C veil for my wardrobe
• Woolen veil, I have the wool, just need to decide what shape veil
• Wimple
• Hemstitched Yardcloth, so I have two in use
• Blue wool GFD, to the same pattern as my plum-coloured GFD

I also want to have the coif-set finished and documentation done for Double Wars so I can enter it in the competition. My plan was to reprise the Elizabethan metal thread workshop at Double Wars, and if I have the set finished I will have something to show people. I have actually got gold thread like the silver thread I'm using for Filippa's coif, and vague plans for making myself an embroidered coif. I have one set in plain white which I finished at Visby last August, but I think it's time I had an embroidered set for myself as well. This is of course not something I'm about to start right now. Not before the other items on the list. Maybe for next year.

This spring I have lesson-free Tuesdays - which hopefully will help me really get going on this list of projects. Next Tuesday I'm going to SvartulvR and Elizabeth's place for a bit of stitching. My plan then is to re-do the hem on the plum gown. This weekend I will attempt to set up the scribal stuff and get going on those projects.

Comments

[ragnvaeig.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a very reasonable project list. And huzzah for clearing backlog! I'm doing that lately, too.

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, having stuff looming over you that you were supposed to do tends to kill the enthusiasm for new stuff. Or at least some of the enjoyment. No fun feeling guilty for not working on that instead of this, yanno.