Thursday, we survived.

[ianuk]

Well, the bad headspace issues of thursday which I will attribute to 1)lack of sleep, 2)massive pain in my head (litterally), 3)Stress from my job and 4)not enough water were pretty much solved by a good spree of me buckling down and relaxing with projects and getting my mind off the stoopid stuff that annoys me but I have no control over so I just need to cope. So, Thursday was better. Had a great group breakfast with one of my teams which was a surprise bridal shower for one of our lady engineers. She was very surprised, the food was good and recipes are in the process of being exchanged. After that things got tough with paperwork, telecons, meetings and the like. Some of my hardwork over the last few days got scuttled due to people making the wrong decisions which is frustrating to me because I knew things were wrong, asked the right questions and got the wrong answers on all of them. Sighs. But I got things ready for the chief engineer's review which is today and I left home a bit early.

I made my first 14th Century hood, though I'm still tweaking the side gores...Cecilia's online instructions weren't very clear in my way of thinking so I made the gores way to small and I need to take out the side gores, put in bigger ones and then I should have the outside of my hood...then I can cut the pieces and have the lining..though I may have to do some stamping...not sure. Course I really should have been working on my armor (which I've lost the plates I ordered somewhere in the house) and my helmet. I worked on the armor and the helmet later but the helmet padding wasn't great. We headed out to school at Ed's and well, about half way through I had to take out some of the padding we added. Sunday night will be a complete repadding of the helm cause my old period padding is dead. I made it through the drills, was very happy to be back in class with desert_moloch and I didn't hurl, get too winded or epic fail during the crucible...so that is good. Got home and zippydclown and richarddbrewer were geeking out in the shop with pewter. Zippy was very accomplished with his nights endeavors and richard was gleeful in the ability to walk around with out the crutches. I stayed out in the shop too long and cooled down too far. Got back in side and worked on the laptop a bit and then crawled into a very hot shower. Got a shoulder massage and a bit further in my book and snuggled in to sleep.

This AM was again brought to you by coffee and a nice mexi breakfast. The crap has hit the fan with one of my suppliers and I'm kinda at a loss of how to help them. Sighs. But I'm gonna make it through, not get mad at peoples stupidity and present my 4 slides at the presentation this afternoon and then do a bit of shopping, then some sewing and then have a very nice anniversary dinner with my husband. Should be good.

Comments

Hood issues

[marianavivia.livejournal.com]

I had the same problem the first time I made that hood. Essentially what helped me was realizing the gore is what makes it have that fitted feel. So, as long as you have it big enough to fit over your shoulder you're good. Are you gonna put Laurel wreaths on it? What color is it?

Re: Hood issues

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

yeah, but meg's directions say that 10" wide gores should be plenty and well, for me and my manly shoulders its not. So, I have a 12" wide gore in the back and will be changing the side ones out to 12" or larger...it not quite big enough...but awfully close.

I'm probably gonna stamp it with the leaf motif I used on my my cote. I used the center section (though its hard to see in this pic) of the leaves
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The hood is blue and I think the lining will be fuscia or cream...not sure yet.