up much too late, again
Sep. 27th, 2009 01:41 amYesterday I was inspired by the announcement of the Straffordshire Horde, and decided to use the design on one of the knife hilts for the embroidery I've been meaning to do on my new tunic. So I pulled the image into Corel Draw, traced the outline, did some colour coded tracing to work out which bits are legs, which are body, and so on, and started composing a blog post discussing my analysis thereof. Then got really sleepy, quit in the middle, walked across the street (I love that commute) and did my yoga and went to sleep.
This morning I returned to the office, edited the tracing to make it work on my fabric (the photo is of a curved, but the fabric, when stitched, will be flat), and printed it out. I then scurried out the door, stopped by the old apartment to return the desk lamp I'd borrowed for the night before I obtained one of my own, and picked up the hair-clip I'd left attached to the shower, and went across town to the home of the SCA family who recently moved to Milan (he works for the Foreign Service). They are very keen to get some SCA activity happening locally, so we will be starting with dance practice in their living room on Tuesday (anyone want to come out for it?). I had a wonderful time hanging out with them, and am looking forward to further time spent in their company. It is great that they've got such a large place, and are willing to host stuff there. They are also very easy to get to--I can either take the metro, which involves a 15 to 20 minute walk, to get to (but a fast train ride), or I can hop on the bus which stops right outside my door and take it through the city center to their place (which will probably take longer, but when my armour arrives and we are doing fighter training there will be more sensible). Once their mini-van arrives I will be able to car-pool with them to events out of town, since they've only two kids still at home and the van seats seven.
After many happy hours at their place I came back to the office and sent invites to as many people as I could think of to dance practice (even posted to the couchsurfing Milano group) and then replied to a few e-mails before completing the text for that blog post, and then discovering that blogger won't let me upload the jpgs I exported from CorelDraw showing the various stages of tracing. Sigh. It is now, once again, way too late in the evening and I'm too tired to try messing with it further, so that post will have to wait. I did get the embroidery project started, so, perhaps, tomorrow, when I'm awake, I can post a photo of that, at least.
I hope that I'll also do some uni work tomorrow, to make up for how little got done this week while moving house. Really, I've far too many interests in my life, and not enough time for all of them!
This morning I returned to the office, edited the tracing to make it work on my fabric (the photo is of a curved, but the fabric, when stitched, will be flat), and printed it out. I then scurried out the door, stopped by the old apartment to return the desk lamp I'd borrowed for the night before I obtained one of my own, and picked up the hair-clip I'd left attached to the shower, and went across town to the home of the SCA family who recently moved to Milan (he works for the Foreign Service). They are very keen to get some SCA activity happening locally, so we will be starting with dance practice in their living room on Tuesday (anyone want to come out for it?). I had a wonderful time hanging out with them, and am looking forward to further time spent in their company. It is great that they've got such a large place, and are willing to host stuff there. They are also very easy to get to--I can either take the metro, which involves a 15 to 20 minute walk, to get to (but a fast train ride), or I can hop on the bus which stops right outside my door and take it through the city center to their place (which will probably take longer, but when my armour arrives and we are doing fighter training there will be more sensible). Once their mini-van arrives I will be able to car-pool with them to events out of town, since they've only two kids still at home and the van seats seven.
After many happy hours at their place I came back to the office and sent invites to as many people as I could think of to dance practice (even posted to the couchsurfing Milano group) and then replied to a few e-mails before completing the text for that blog post, and then discovering that blogger won't let me upload the jpgs I exported from CorelDraw showing the various stages of tracing. Sigh. It is now, once again, way too late in the evening and I'm too tired to try messing with it further, so that post will have to wait. I did get the embroidery project started, so, perhaps, tomorrow, when I'm awake, I can post a photo of that, at least.
I hope that I'll also do some uni work tomorrow, to make up for how little got done this week while moving house. Really, I've far too many interests in my life, and not enough time for all of them!