For the first time in nearly a year I had a bout of gastric reflux and I think I actually got about six minutes of sleep last night despite the fact that my neighborhood is so quiet I can hear the BART pull in to the Fruitvale station a mile away. Honestly, I did not want to write emails in my head for seven hours. I really really did not. I am not going to write the one that needs to be written yet because I know I am not sufficiently cool headed to do so.
So I dragged my ass out of bed and my head out of my ass and had a hot shower that did not involve the use of a stockpot and measuring cup. I scrambled up some of Art's lovely eggs with a bit of ham. They're almost too pretty to crack open - soft greens, subtle browns....
The brick linen says very definitely "cotehardie." I've cut out pieces based on the old muslin which is now too sizes too big. I think I'll run multiple lines of basting stitch along the back and side seams and try fitting it that way. I don't feel the need to subscribe to the Robin Netherton Pour Yourself Into This Gown Theory because (a) I don't have a helper and after the post Twelfth Night break I am ready for some handwork NOW (b) I don't have vast tracts of land, (b) I don't like tight and (c) nobody notices what I look like in cotehardies anyway.
The brown wool I got from Alail is not sure whether it wants to be a cotehardie or 12th century. It would work with that tablet woven belt I got from Ursula's Alcove at the war. The leftovers from the brick could be used for sleeve linings. Maybe a little chain stitch around the neckline..... Won't take scissors to it until I know.
The striped linen jacquard washed up SO soft, all subtle neutrals. It knew it was a kosode on the bolt when I found it at Stone Mountain last week. If the stripes ran lengthwise along the bolt, I would have no reservations about whacking it together as is. Widthwide stripes ARE period but I don't think I want to go there. It occurs to me that I could get an extremely iki effect by cutting it into blocks and piecing it together so that the stripes alternate vertically and horizontally.....
So I dragged my ass out of bed and my head out of my ass and had a hot shower that did not involve the use of a stockpot and measuring cup. I scrambled up some of Art's lovely eggs with a bit of ham. They're almost too pretty to crack open - soft greens, subtle browns....
The brick linen says very definitely "cotehardie." I've cut out pieces based on the old muslin which is now too sizes too big. I think I'll run multiple lines of basting stitch along the back and side seams and try fitting it that way. I don't feel the need to subscribe to the Robin Netherton Pour Yourself Into This Gown Theory because (a) I don't have a helper and after the post Twelfth Night break I am ready for some handwork NOW (b) I don't have vast tracts of land, (b) I don't like tight and (c) nobody notices what I look like in cotehardies anyway.
The brown wool I got from Alail is not sure whether it wants to be a cotehardie or 12th century. It would work with that tablet woven belt I got from Ursula's Alcove at the war. The leftovers from the brick could be used for sleeve linings. Maybe a little chain stitch around the neckline..... Won't take scissors to it until I know.
The striped linen jacquard washed up SO soft, all subtle neutrals. It knew it was a kosode on the bolt when I found it at Stone Mountain last week. If the stripes ran lengthwise along the bolt, I would have no reservations about whacking it together as is. Widthwide stripes ARE period but I don't think I want to go there. It occurs to me that I could get an extremely iki effect by cutting it into blocks and piecing it together so that the stripes alternate vertically and horizontally.....