( Packing & mundania )

Anyway, I'm coming down with two pairs of pattens. The second pair was much quicker to do and are destined for frualeydis. My own pair are quite cute, and although they did take longer, it was mostly because we didn't know exactly which was the best way to proceed at every juncture. I shall give them a jolly good test-drive at the Coronet Tourney we're hosting the first weekend of May, and then again at Double Wars. We're all aware that Double Wars is coming up in a few short weeks, right?

I mostly got the surcote stitched up, there's around 30 cm of side seam left undone because I ran out of thread there and I wanted to try it on. I brought my gothic army dress but didn't do anything on it. On the car-ride south again I'll finish the very last needlebook for the giftbasket project with blanket stitch around the edges. Maybe if I'm feeling creative I can do a little design on the fronts as well, we'll see.

I expect to be back in the home Shire before it's time to grab the tea-bag and head for the tuesday meeting. But it does depend a little on my form after around ten hours in a car. I might be entirely too knackered, or I can be just knackered enough that a brisk walk will be just the ticket.

I arrived in fairly good working order, only 45 minutes late which is about par for the Norrland-trains I've come to find.

I did start to feel a bit wobbly when I got a little too warm so I took my brother's two dogs out for a nice long walk around a bit of local water. I was out for an hour and a half or so. It was absolutely delightful.

Then we ate and ate. And ate some more.

Today, I printed out a bunch of the pictures in the links for pattens and headed for the wood-shop where I found my own pet carpenter in the midst of table-making. I fluttered my bits of paper around and he found some lovely bits of pine out of which we've just about managed to craft the first of my pair of pattens before lunch. I took a few photos and I shall continue taking a few more. I sort of expect a pair ready before teatime at this pace. Unless he starts his smithy and forges the nails there that is. In which case it'll be a bit longer.