Usefulness; also vexation
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serindeAfter lying around last night with my hand stapled to my forehead and accomplishing absolutely nothing (other than quality time with Mage and a book), I was somewhat disgusted with self. Therefore, forced myself this evening...eventually...to do some hand-sewing. I've now finished the shoulder wings for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elibalin's doublet and just need to attach them to the garment.
Still remaining to do:
- acquisition and attaching of buttons
- buttonholes (KIIIIILL MEEEEEE)
- making & attaching the tabs along the waist
- adding trim
Need to decide if I should bind the CF edges with ribbon or similar. It was frequently done that way, but I don't think it's actually necessary. OTOH, it'll ensure that the lining isn't visible.
I'd like to make a shirt, but I don't have the right linen at the mo' *and* I've never done a late-period shirt before, and I'm very sure I won't be able to finish that and this in a month.
Today's sewing was brought to you by the One True Version of "The Scarlet Pimpernel". Which we have two different DVD editions of, both put out by cheap-ass no-name studios, both of which are worse than the videotape edition. Snarl.
Also snarl: I'm forging my way through the dense thicket of The One True Work On 14th-Century Costume, and I have a few notes for the author. At the top of my memorandum is "Most of us don't speak langue d'oil, so including contextual reference in it without translation is NOT FUCKING HELPFUL; and even those of us who took Latin are not going to sit there with a glossary puzzling out every reference, so same damn thing".
... Final snarl. Steve has just come in to tell me that one of the cats has just reacted to Miss Kitten by peeing on the bed. Goddammit. I suppose it's a miracle it took them this long to object.
elibalin's doublet and just need to attach them to the garment. Still remaining to do:
- acquisition and attaching of buttons
- buttonholes (KIIIIILL MEEEEEE)
- making & attaching the tabs along the waist
- adding trim
Need to decide if I should bind the CF edges with ribbon or similar. It was frequently done that way, but I don't think it's actually necessary. OTOH, it'll ensure that the lining isn't visible.
I'd like to make a shirt, but I don't have the right linen at the mo' *and* I've never done a late-period shirt before, and I'm very sure I won't be able to finish that and this in a month.
Today's sewing was brought to you by the One True Version of "The Scarlet Pimpernel". Which we have two different DVD editions of, both put out by cheap-ass no-name studios, both of which are worse than the videotape edition. Snarl.
Also snarl: I'm forging my way through the dense thicket of The One True Work On 14th-Century Costume, and I have a few notes for the author. At the top of my memorandum is "Most of us don't speak langue d'oil, so including contextual reference in it without translation is NOT FUCKING HELPFUL; and even those of us who took Latin are not going to sit there with a glossary puzzling out every reference, so same damn thing".
... Final snarl. Steve has just come in to tell me that one of the cats has just reacted to Miss Kitten by peeing on the bed. Goddammit. I suppose it's a miracle it took them this long to object.
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Orayer d'aóvreürr dez estaézon
Date: 2006-10-05 08:07 am (UTC)By hand. Um. You are clearly insane. Not that that's a bad thing.
(Meanwhile, I continue to have not motivated myself to fix the damn pocket in my grey Shorts Of Holding, but at this point it can wait until next summer.)
Re: Orayer d'aóvreürr dez estaézon
Date: 2006-10-05 10:55 am (UTC)Re: Orayer d'aóvreürr dez estaézon
Date: 2006-10-05 11:50 am (UTC)The trick to doing them by machine is not to cut the hole until you've finished the stitching. Come to think of it, that might be the trick to doing them by hand too. Hmm...
Re: Orayer d'aóvreürr dez estaézon
Date: 2006-10-05 01:27 pm (UTC)I believe I find hand-sewing them easier because I have a finer control over my needle that way.
Re: Orayer d'aóvreürr dez estaézon
Date: 2006-10-05 02:57 pm (UTC)Re: Orayer d'aóvreürr dez estaézon
Date: 2006-10-05 04:46 pm (UTC)(Oh, the subject? This. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d'oïl#Influence) I didn't know, or maybe knew and forgot, that French had so many weird relatives, let alone ones live enough for transit signage.)