I haven't posted in a few days so here is an

[aelfgifu]

Me: Feeling sad about not getting to do much fun SCA stuff right now, but happy about progress on the shop. I can start moving stuff in now that the floor is done! Sadly, my throat started getting sore today. I am probably coming down with the same crud the rest of my family has had for the past week. :-P I am looking forward to A&S, but also somewhat nervous about it because it feels like there is still so much to do. Since it is Hansan’s first official autocratting experience I really want it to go well (and loosing our first site didn’t help with this!) and be as low stress as possible, but I am worried that it will be full of stress and angst. I am praying for calm. 

My weekend: Was full of ups and downs. Hanksan was sick in bed all day on Saturday. So I went to Elizabeth’s b-day party without him. We had Chinese food, including fried frogs legs and pig intestine, then watched Eddy Izzard.

  Sunday was grind down high spots in the cement floor day. And it was utterly exhausting. Yet I am still awake, which blows. But I got the weird high spots in the old concrete ground down so we can roll stuff over the floor in the glass shop and hopefully not trip on the old cracks.

 The Knee: Still hurts. Almost 4 weeks from the fall. Blah. I have an appointment with the Portland Knee Clinic on March 13^th. That was the earliest appointment I could get. I am doomed. In the mean time, much weight lifting, vicodin, and using the hand-bike thing at the gym to try and get my heart rate up without huge amounts of pain. Double blah.

SCA Projects: I have entered into a sewing mode in the last week. I am almost done with mom’s cool Magyar coat! I fit it on her today and it is perfect – no adjustment needed! Now I just need to finish sewing on the brocade edging bits. I am about half way done with her silk tunic. I cut out and have started sewing a new coat for Hanksan out of some deliciously rich brocade. And I am much closer to being done hand finishing seams on the coat that Khalja gave me. I still have a ton of items in the cue: finishing dad’s houpelande, a tunic for Ed, a tunic and pants for Hanksan, some pant-like objects for me, the doublet to go under Hanksan’s Italian houpelande, a tunic and pants for dad, hats of some sort for Hanksan and dad. Doom.

 Modern Projects: I actually started painting the other day. Woot. I haven’t painted in a while. I am trying to get in a little time for “real art”, but it is hard with all of the stuff I have going on right now.

Comments

[khalja.livejournal.com]

Thanks you for finishing those seams before taking the coat out for a drive. ;) The fit issues I had with it made it not so very inspiring for me. ;)

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

Not a problem! I also adjusted the side gores so that the waist line is about 4 inches higher - I have such a frikkin' short waist. Of course I am also just short. :-P The coat is beatiful and I am really looking forward to wearing it! I also still have "something for Khalja" on my projects list, but that is largely waiting on me having the shop together. I am really glad you gave me the coat, because I don't know when I will have another chance to make something for myself. I am pretty much single handedly trying to provide garb for my family and as someone who really doesn't like sewing all that much (except for those rare occasions like this week when I have been in weird sewing mood, and I do like embroidery and fitting things - I just have issues staying interested in finishing entire projects - especially the boring parts) it is an interesting proposition.

[khalja.livejournal.com]

Good job on raising the gores. Hopefully it was pretty easy given the way I constructed the coat. I'm assuming that means that you shortened it as well?

And the coat was a gift with no expectation of something in return. Of course, I won't turn anything down... ;)

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

Yup, side gores went up, so about 4 inches got chopped off the bottom. Now I have you nervous about what I am doing to yoru creation, don't I? ;-) Don't worry, I am not mangling it! /grin/ Have faith! You can't tell where the gores were raised since when the seams are finished the inside all looks the same. And yes, the way you constructed it did make it easy to change the fit, which was very nice. Hopefully I will have it ready to wear by A&S.

As for the gift part - I like giving gifts so you will get something when it is suddenly Khalja gift time! One of the things I like about the SCA is that we share so nicely. You have given so freeely of your research and knowledge - thank you! Not to mention you sewing. ;-)

[foxen.livejournal.com]

Just want to let you know again that I think your work on the shop floor was just great! Sorry I was down for the count this weekend, but I feel great today. In fact I'm going to go make a stop at the gym before lunch.

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

Don't worry - you spent so many hours working on the electrical stuff that I can't even beging to be upset at you! Not to mention that you now get to plan security for the building! ;-)

[foxen.livejournal.com]

Hmmm security. Okay got it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5YftEAbmMQ

I will install one of those. Just have to reprogram it to ignore large black dogs.