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Tonight's Frostheim meeting was well attended. There were a total of seven of us (though one went home early, and lord_kjar got home from work late, and soon disappeared to the shop to repair the lawn mower (welding shut the crack in the metal that covers the rotating blades).

The rest of us worked on the banners needed to advertize our Medeltidsdagnara på Hägnan event next month.

I had bought four sheets at a second hand store the other week, and last Wednesday I drew on it the text "Medeltidsdagnara på Hägnan ons-lör vecka 29", and added a cute little medieval style dragonish creature breathing stylized fire that I found in the calligraphy book I looked at before drawing the M and the H.

I didn't get another chance to touch the project till tonight, when I put a bunch of them to work cutting the remaining sheets into half lengthwise (because I decided that the first banner was actually a bit big) and hemming them around a length of rope, while my senior apprentice and I went outside to paint the first banner.

After we painted that banner she helped the others with the sewing, while I started the penciling of the letters onto the first narrow banner they had finished. Everyone else went home at 22:30, after all but one seam of the banners had been sewen, and after they left I finished up the pencil lines on that banner, then drew the black permanent marker outline around the letters and over the dragon. Then I traced the letters and dragon from that banner onto another two, before deciding that I should be done for the night, since it was already nearly 02:00.

Then I sat down to the computer and did some work for the event, processing registrations, posting the forms for the arts and sciences contest, replying to email, etc. Now it is nearly 04:00, and I really should do my yoga and get to bed. Good thing I took tomorrow off of work.

Note that it never got dark all night, though we are, just, far enough south that the sun does set, briefly under the northern horizon, at mid summer, but this late into the day we are up to seriously full bright out there.

All my glasses in one case

I actually finished this project in April, but it took till now to get the photos off my camera. The case itself was 3-D printed by lord_kjar, and we both worked on the design till it was as small as it could be and still hold all four pairs at once (driving glasses, sun glasses, computer glasses, and sewing/lecture room glasses). I sewed the cloth cover, My apprentice did the tablet woven carrying strap, and the clasp is an old broken hard drive magnet.
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I really, really, love this case. It is strong enough to stand on, so I needn't fear damaging the glasses. It is light enough that I leave it hanging on my shoulder most of the day like a baldric, so they are in easy reach to change back and forth to the pair I need just now. It is bothersome to need so many pairs, but, since I do, I am glad we were able to make it easy to have them with me.