The slippery slope

Ok, now I have really done it, I have started down the slippery slope to destruction. Ok, maybe not destruction but pretty close to effectively eating up my free time during the day... I have started a journal.

Project list or Why I need to quit my job so I can stay home and sew all day

OK, here is a listing of all of my current projects, current as defined as actually drafting a pattern or accomplishing productive work on it besides doing research or doodles. Planned projects usually involve lots of doodles, possible (ok usually) purchasing fabric, saved URL's for inspiration and doing research about the article.

Things for me in progress
-Effigy corset, one of the fronts has the channels sewn.
-Enn's gown, I just need to buckle down and get the outer fabric cut, but when?
-1583 Italian shipwreck barrett, knitting project that I can work on at work, the bus, etc
-Farthingale, another one of those "I just need to sit down and start sewing", the ropes are "this" close to being started to be sewn in.

Planned projects for me... Sort of an endless list.
- Green silk and black vevet doublet. Fabric: Currently being shipped

- A couple more linen smocks so I have clean ones Fabric: I have some, but not enough.

- Several knock'um dead authentic outfits for ren faires this summer. I am portraying a upper-mid middle class German merchants wife. I gotta look good, but not too nobly and not to poor. Something that says 'I have money and good taste, but those darn sumptrary laws are keeping me in check' The good news is that I am using German sumptuary laws and those allow more silk and velvet than the English ones.

Other things
- Lots of hats and other things for sale at the guild booth in September.

Things for my sister Elizabth, who I have promissed to outfit for a Ren Faire the last weekend in June.
-Effigy corset, must be completed by Mother's day weekend so I can get measurements for the dress.

Planned projects for Elizabeth, must be done by last weekend in June
-Smock, sleevless. Fabric - Linen, already purchased

-Shirt or partlet. If I can find cool looking embroidered linen or silk, she's getting a shirt. If I just use plain linen, got it; Otherwise _must_buy_more_fabric... Nooooo! Hehehe

-Petticote, fabric: need to buy it, or use something I already own that is in the bins downstairs.

-Caul and hat

-Dress, based on one of the ones from the wedding at Bermondsey painting. I am using a pattern from Alcega to make it. Its not going to have a split skirt, I personally don't like that style and lean more in the direction of the German and Italian influences when it comes to skirt styles, so no split skirts for her. Besides, then I would have to make a forepart or find another piece of fabric that we both liked. Fabric: light green drapery mystery fabric that I bought for curtains a couple of years ago. Obviously it never made it into curtains. The color looks fantastic on her.

Tis the season...

for nasty headaches. Jen had one and now I feel one coming on too, except that I have been indoors all day. I ate something new for lunch today, I bet it had something in it that I shouldn't have eaten. Ugh. I hate having food intollerances. I suppose its better than having something worse like a terminal illness or a major disability, but still, they get nasty. I just took some Aleve to see if that heads it off at the pass before it goes full blown, fortunatly its time to go home for the day. I really want to go to fencing tonight, I hope I feel well enough. Of course this could just be my body telling me that I have majorly been overdoing it and not getting enough sleep. Hmm.. Off for home.

Ugh

Ok, I think the above pretty much says it. I feel grumpy and wrung out, so no fencing for me tonight. I am trying to decide if I have enough energy to sit on the couch and work on either the farthingale or binding the eyelets for my sister's corset, or collapse into bed and read PoF again. Bed is sounding really good right now, I might keep the computer online so as to keep the awful telemarkters at bay, they have called 3 times so far since I have been home, hung up twice talked once. Those people are so annoying.