real winter, at last!
Jan. 14th, 2015 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaWe finally have enough snow out there to really feel like it is winter, and the world is every so much more beautiful! The year started with temperatures above freezing, but while that did lots of damage to the snow down in Umeå, where we spent New Year's, up here it only got crusty, and since then we have had lots of good weather and fresh snow, and I am much happier. The weather service says that it should continue to be mostly good for the next nine days (though it will warm up to zero on Friday), so with luck we will actually have a proper winter.
I am looking forward to my trip to Australia in February, it will be good to see people, and to get all that training for work, but I am sad to miss out on nearly three weeks of winter as a result. Why couldn't that conference been scheduled for just a bit later in the year--no one wants to see "spring" in northern Sweden--the couple of weeks when it all melts is icky, and I would be happy to be gone then.
I have been making good progress on my bliuat in progress--the slevees are done and ready to attach to the body rectangle. The neck is done and is attached to the body rectangle. The inset gores are nearly all done (two more seams there), and the first of the seven-triangle side gores has five of its pieces assembled. All I still need to do is attach the last few pieces, adjust the sides to the right size and sew on the lacing, and sew the trim to the bottom hem. No idea if this is possible before I fly to Tassie, but it is worth trying for that goal, since they have an SCA event my first weekend there.
I am looking forward to my trip to Australia in February, it will be good to see people, and to get all that training for work, but I am sad to miss out on nearly three weeks of winter as a result. Why couldn't that conference been scheduled for just a bit later in the year--no one wants to see "spring" in northern Sweden--the couple of weeks when it all melts is icky, and I would be happy to be gone then.
I have been making good progress on my bliuat in progress--the slevees are done and ready to attach to the body rectangle. The neck is done and is attached to the body rectangle. The inset gores are nearly all done (two more seams there), and the first of the seven-triangle side gores has five of its pieces assembled. All I still need to do is attach the last few pieces, adjust the sides to the right size and sew on the lacing, and sew the trim to the bottom hem. No idea if this is possible before I fly to Tassie, but it is worth trying for that goal, since they have an SCA event my first weekend there.