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So I downloaded Semagic again to post to LJ. Perhaps this will mean more lj updates in the future.

I wanted to start on a list of projects in a to do list:

5 Creative pay-it-forward items (PiF2014)
1) For Cristina Stolte
2) For Aryanhwy merch Catmael
3) For Catlin Woodmane
4) For Arianhwy Wen
5) For Alfhild de Foxley

I know what I'm doing for 1-4, 5 is not yet set.
I'll be working on a budget for them, so they won't be fancy, but should be a fun way for me to practice some skills.

Other things on my to-do list

6) Kneeling cushion for Nordmark that just. needs. finishing.
7) Embroider and make up second kneeling cushion
8) Second-layer supportive gown for my 1400 wardrobe
9) Third layer pretty gown for my 1400 wardrobe
10) Matching set of wimple and veil for my 1400 wardrobe
11) New silk flags
12) Finish the silk tablet-weaving
13) Finish adding studs to almost finished belt
14) Finish napkin DW raffle prize (the shame...)
15) Finish Helwig's Scroll (the shame...)
16) Finish backlog scroll on my plate

... to finish or mend!

Red petticoat - needs the lining stitched in where, for the third time, it's ripped out after wear. Along the front and also where I had to piece the silk lining.
Turkish morning coat - attach the six edelweiss buttons down the front as decoration
Black velvet petticoat - re-finish the temporary hem
Nobelese Largesse project - finish and send out (hopefully by next week)
Dragon Rose Embroidery - finish and deliver hopefully at Visby
Silk standard - hem and attach sleeve by Visby
Blue brocade GFD - finish
Front laced corset (plastic boning) - remake
Front lace corset (hemp rope boning) - finish binding all edges, sew shoulder straps
Brick stitch embroidery, pouch - finish the linen bits and make up into a bag
Silk veil - finish hemming it already!
Blackadder quote scroll - paint
Helwig's Laurel scroll - paint
Backlog PCS - write, sketch, gild and paint

Maybe I should, like someone I know, start my own Costume Finishing Month...

Of course, at Coronation last weekend I also bought home with me some barley starch with the intention of making a suit of ruffs. My black gown as well as my English fitted gown needs a suit of ruffs to be properly finished outfits.

Yeah, went to Coronation. The trip there with Sir William and Lady Isabetta was splendid. Me and Edricus were picked up at Stockholm Central station, we pretty much went straight onto the ferry, had a grand time on the boat, slept and when we arrived in Åbo we met up with Sven and Siobhan, Nattfari and Efridis and Anna, Erasmus and Jonna for breakfast in a local shopping mall. That's where I bought the starch. Then we made up a caravan and headed to the site. The schedule was perfectly roomy with lots of time to just be and hang out. The sun was out, and I hadn't really packed for that sort of weather, so I pretended to be a landsknecht and went around with just a shirt and my kirtle closed at the waist but with the bodice left off. But I did wear triple headwear (forehead cloth, coif and cap) and got approval from the local attack laurel for such unseemly un-dress.

The Coronation of Paul and Aryanhwy was a pretty much painless transition from Sven and Siobhan, and courts (there were three of them) were all fairly short and speedy. I heard complaints when Paul and Aryanhwy's first court was too short so that a member of the populace only had half a beer! :)

I was also able to, finally!, finish the shirt I made for William's vigil. It needed some shoulder reinforcements because the fine hemp I used is a little too fine to be left to stretch indefinitely.

On the way back we stopped in Åbo again, because the evening ferry gave us plenty of time for touristing, so we visited Aboa Vetus, which is an AWESOME museum where you can actually walk through the streets and houses of medieval Åbo. Awesome stuff. This was a recommendation from several of the locals, who also recommended we find the restaurant Trattoria Romana - by reputation the best Italian place in Finland. They were not wrong. Nom nom nom. We plan on going back there on the next visit to Åbo, which might happen around Kingdom University which is also in this area this fall. Other things to see there is the Castle, and the museum in the Cathedral which houses some awesome (reputedly) embroideries.

I am working through the photos from the event and from the stop in Åbo. Never fear.

January 1 - Item, one German brick stitch embroidered pincushion stuffed with wool and edged with square fingerloop braid of white silk.
January 2 - Item, one grey wool Layton-style jacket. Closed with pewter buttons inlaid with a green stone and fingerloop braided button-loops.( With pictures... )

January 7 - Item, sixteen separate and different fingerloop braids to decorate the A&S competition gifts. All in silk, all in the Drachenwald colours of red, yellow and black.

February 4 - Item, half dozen fingerloop braids in Calontir's colours for Estrella Giftbasket. ( With pictures... )

February 9 - Item, one writ of introduction for Antonio di Rienzo, ODS, so his Scholar can enter into competitions at Pennsic. ( With pictures... )
March 30 - Item, one embroidered napkin, device in centre, brick stitch. Giftbasket project for Mistress Katheryn Hebenstreitz, OL.
( With pictures... )
April 5 - Item, one whitework embroidered towel. Giftbasket project for Mistress Katheryn Hebenstreitz, OL.( With pictures... )
April 30 - Item, one green wool houpellande for THL Odo de Home finished.
May 15 - Item, one tablecloth, blackworked border and in the centre a laurel wreath containing a pelican in her piety - all long-armed cross stitch. Giftbasket project for Mistress Katheryn Hebenstreitz, OL.( With pictures... )
May 22 - Item, set of forehead cloth and coif wrought with blackwork and silver thread embroidery for Viscountess Filippa Birgersdotter.( With pictures... )

June 16 - Item, one cotton/linen high-necked 16th Century shirt for Helwig Ulfsdotter. Neck and cuff set with small frills, the front embroidered with initial H and finished with silk ties. Delivered at Hägnan and Nordmark Coronet Tourney.

Aug 5 - Item, one Viking shirt/undertunic for Prince SvartulvR. Made from fine hemp, round neckline with a slit set to one side and two eyelet holes for fastening with an annular brooch. Delivered at Visby Medieval Week.

Sep 11 - Item, one natural-colour keyhole neckline linen shirt for Lord Edricus.

Sep 11 - Item, one red knitted flat cap. ( With pictures... )

Sep 12 - Item, one cotton/linen high-necked 16th Century shirt for myself. ( With pictures... )

Oct 20 - Item, one viking tunic, still to get embroidery, for SvartulvR's Laurel elevation. ( With pictures... )

Oct 20 - Item, one carrying bag, embroidered in the mammen style, as a vigil gift for SvartulvR. ( With pictures... )

Note to self:

Update webpage with new information on persona page.
Add my device EVERYWHERE!
Update scribal page with the writ for Antonio's scholar
Seriously update events page.
Edit St Egon pictures...
Update turkish morning gown dress diary

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.

( The List )

I had a list of things drawn up before the Wintergames/Coronet Tourney event, and I think I did a fair job of ticking the boxes for it. From having eleven items on it, I got it down to seven items before the event (ticked Shirt for Åsa, Class blurb for the DW website, Award-scroll and Nordmark largesse project/workshop).

After the event I added one item to the list (Coif and forehead cloth for Filippa) and also ticked off two more (Helwig's shirt and Aros badge for the Coat of Arms wallhanging).

Now the list looks like this:

Blank scroll for I.D - inked, possibly gilded already
Laurel scroll for Helwig - sketching started
Blackadder-quote / scroll for SvartulvR - sketching started
Childrens activities for DW/Largesse workshop? possible class, still pondering
Classes for DW
- Doublet fitting, write-up
- Learn a new ductus handout
- Simple fingerloop braids? possible class
Coif and forehead cloth for Filippa
Shirt for HRH

All but that last item I want to try to get finished for Double Wars.

I'm not doing anything new in there for me, and that will sometimes get me down, but the embroidery on the coif is so much fun I can't even begin to tell you. Plus I am working on that clunky wool embroidered seat cushion which will be for me. I think. Unless I decide it can go to the Pennsic gift basket. We'll see how it turns out.

As with last year, I was not madly productive, but I do have a bit of a list.

The year started off with scribal assignments, and the first projects I can put on my list are from April.

Queen's Order of Courtesy scroll for Lady Trinite Ducalon (Scribal poject #21)

Golden Ribbon (Nordmark A&S award) scroll for Viscountess Filippa Birgersdotter (Scribal poject #22)

For Double Wars in May I did the year's third scroll, an Award of Arms for Niamh of Gisburne (Scribal poject #23)

In June I finished the forehead cloth and coif set for Mistress Helwig Ulfsdotter's Laurel elevation. I still don't have a good set of photos of this organized. I am sure I have taken some, but I'll be damned if I know where I put them.

In July I whipped together one quick brocade 16th Century kirtle (which is too small for me and not pictured anywhere),

and one previously cut out half-sleeved GFD in a forest green wool (also not pictured).

I also finished (to a wearable state) the GFD made from Mistress Mathilde's remotely fitted pattern in a gorgeous rust-coloured wool,

After a bit of sewing I decided to experiment with brick stitch embroidery, and made a little pincushion in September.

With an inability to say no, in October I accepted two last minute scroll assignments and made two Lindquistringe scrolls for Viscountess Yrla Kristersdotter and her lord,

Sir Cormac Lawless O'Toole respectively. (Numbered 25 and 26 in my internal scribal project counter.)

October continued to be productive as I made another brick stitch pincushion.

And a working linen apron, with my first bit of smocking.

Finally, in December I decided I had not finished anything interesting for a long while and cut out and made up a simple Layton style jacket in grey wool, lined with linen. I am still debating pulling out the lining and replacing it with silk or the like, and it has no closing mechanism yet either.

Also finished in December, but started much earlier, another set with elizabethan coif and forehead cloth for Mary verch Thomas Pelican elevation.

And for my final project, another one for the giftbasket, a Sture shirt for Princess Willhelmina Weydehartz.

Damnit - It's time to start being productive! I've got loads of projects just raring to go, just as soon as I get back to all my stuff.

I probably need to make a list of the stuff even.

Laurel scroll
Sture shirt for Åsa
Blackadder quote illuminated page
Giorneas
Aros loaner regalia for Drachenwald
Forehead cloth and coif
Closing mechanism for Nordmark Capes
Design work for shire arms on Nordmark Capes
Paint box
Make inner half-tent for my pavilion

I just took a few minutes to make a list for Double Wars. It is not a short list. It is not extraordinarily long either, but Double Wars is approaching fast. Like, really fast. Like, it's two and a half weeks off.

On said list are the following items, among others:

New petticoat skirt for Florentine gown (have fabric)
Finish-finish Florentine gown (Only need to attach fluff inside baragoni)
Assemble camicia no matter state of embroidery
Make hairdressing class
Make AoA scroll
Make short-sleeved slip to wear under corset (Might possibly get away with using oldest chemise)

So, yeah.

Things I would also like to do is undress wear, like a dressing gown to wear for breakfast and a scarletwork coif/forehead cloth set. That's not gonna happen.

I should also think about what to enter in the A&S competition. Maybe the camicia.

Must also get a set of MoL papers for the Coronet Tourney sorted.

Double wars is soon - eeep!

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