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kareinaYesterday I dropped by my friend Wilhelm's for a short visit, and he took a decent portrait of me. This is the first one I have had done since 2008, so it was kinda time to update the icon of "me". What do you think?
After that I went over to Eva's house and we figured out how to correctly attach the sleeves to her dress in the style of 1795. We'd made the pattern some time back, and and I gave her some striped linen for it. Since then she has used her sewing machine to do red embroidery up some of the stripes, which used up an entire kilometer of red thread! At the time we did the pattern I marked where I thought the sleeve seam should intersect with the arm hole based on where mine does. However, her pattern was just different enough from mine, since we are shaped differently, that we needed to rotate the sleeve nearly two cm around, and then it fit nicely.
Today, despite having nine UFO's on my project list (plus however many more languishing in the cupboard without yet having a card on that list), I started a a new project. A sleeveless under tunic from my final large scrap of the yummy white herringbone linen twill, with hopes to have it done before Hostdansen in 12 days. This project brought to life by the inspiration that strikes when one inventories one's fabric stash and discovers that one didn't use up all of the really good stuff on the last undertunic.
Tonight David made it to folk dance, for the first time in ages. It was fun to dance with him again, and fun to dance with everyone else, too.
But as fun as all of that was, the highlight of the weekend has to have been Friday evening, when my friend Villiam called to say "are you inside right now? Yes? Go outside, the northern lights are amazing". And they were, too! We spent several minutes together (about 4 km apart) admiring the heavens dancing and showing off for us. I love living far enough north to get to see such displays now and then. Now, if I remembered to keep my eye on the aurora forecast I could see them more often. One of the guys in our shire posts photos of them regularly to FB, because he loves doing photography, so he checks the forecast often, and it out there pretty much every night they are visible.
After that I went over to Eva's house and we figured out how to correctly attach the sleeves to her dress in the style of 1795. We'd made the pattern some time back, and and I gave her some striped linen for it. Since then she has used her sewing machine to do red embroidery up some of the stripes, which used up an entire kilometer of red thread! At the time we did the pattern I marked where I thought the sleeve seam should intersect with the arm hole based on where mine does. However, her pattern was just different enough from mine, since we are shaped differently, that we needed to rotate the sleeve nearly two cm around, and then it fit nicely.
Today, despite having nine UFO's on my project list (plus however many more languishing in the cupboard without yet having a card on that list), I started a a new project. A sleeveless under tunic from my final large scrap of the yummy white herringbone linen twill, with hopes to have it done before Hostdansen in 12 days. This project brought to life by the inspiration that strikes when one inventories one's fabric stash and discovers that one didn't use up all of the really good stuff on the last undertunic.
Tonight David made it to folk dance, for the first time in ages. It was fun to dance with him again, and fun to dance with everyone else, too.
But as fun as all of that was, the highlight of the weekend has to have been Friday evening, when my friend Villiam called to say "are you inside right now? Yes? Go outside, the northern lights are amazing". And they were, too! We spent several minutes together (about 4 km apart) admiring the heavens dancing and showing off for us. I love living far enough north to get to see such displays now and then. Now, if I remembered to keep my eye on the aurora forecast I could see them more often. One of the guys in our shire posts photos of them regularly to FB, because he loves doing photography, so he checks the forecast often, and it out there pretty much every night they are visible.
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Date: 2019-09-30 03:28 pm (UTC)Your picture is quite good. I miss your face. (and the mind and personality that face represents)
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Date: 2019-09-30 07:14 pm (UTC)