Very productive weekend
Jan. 25th, 2021 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ianukThis past weekend was the mid-year virtual KWHSS. I only found out about it the previous weekend at Aten 50 year from a household member. When we were chatting. So I attended classes and social time and learned quite a few things. During all of that I worked on my CCC entries. I got the hat done. Its drying from blocking. The dress....well danabren was right...don't cut out things while drunk. Now the cutting was find but I didn't double check any math and that was past me's problem. But I sewed the dress and it was skin tight.....not what you need for layer 3 over your boobs and fluffiness. So, I set it aside on Saturday night and knit during the last few classes. Sunday I got up and took more classes (one on making parchement) and did measurements, chatted on text with the arts crewe and cut whole new larger and longer gussets. Then I moved up the goes to match the added width since I had cut them long to start with due to the math error. It now fits. Yay! Though mel was confusing me by saying it was too big...he though I wanted it super fitted. Honey, its going over a pleated underdress...I need the room!
The apprentice is awesome and picked up tasty meat vittles at Forbes Butcher shop. They are super good (spendy though) but I used their bacon to make a diary free carbonara. the bacon while fatty crisped up perfectly and didn't have extra water content. It was worth it for that alone I think. But the dairy free parmesan I grated is perfect (brand is Violife Parm Wedge). I modified the Alton Brown recipe in his latest cookbook for breakfast carbonara. Tasty. Also since it was fresh cured bacon we actually needed to add salt. That was bizarre. So good. 10/10 I'm making it again.
After I made dinner I was on the West Kingdom Scriptorium Zoom. That was nice. Got to chat with folks from all over and talk through different ways to do stuff. Everyone learns differently and for me square hands are hard. I had Palmer method writing drilled into me for decades so I can't switch well. So, its okay. Had a nice time honestly and worked on my dress and got 1.5 seams hand finished. So all good. I will be trying to stop by there more. I need the influence to scribe more and I have commissions to work on anyway. My scribal supplies and my sewing machine are just staring at me right now shoved to the side of the desk. Sighs.
I also gave blood yesterday and for the first time in a really long time it hurt. And I got woozy later. So I think I was dehydrated so that is a thing. I've been slamming water a lot.
So this week I have to finish the dress and then get gussied up in the full ensemble for nice daylight pictures which means try to finish by friday so I can get things to the dry cleaner and then me in it. Hopefully I can accomplish this but oof lots of work. I can do it. Plus I have Friday off though I have a volunteer thing for work but its on zoom so I can sit and sew.
The other things we did do was unpack and setup the new tiffany lamps we bought. Trying to keep up with the 1920s aesthetic and they are so nice. course now I have a mix of compact fluorescent bulbs which have yellow light versus the LED which are white light. I will be changing things out for better light quality. We do want to replace the ceiling lights in the front room and the kitchen with tiffany style but need to pick one.
danabren was right...don't cut out things while drunk. Now the cutting was find but I didn't double check any math and that was past me's problem. But I sewed the dress and it was skin tight.....not what you need for layer 3 over your boobs and fluffiness. So, I set it aside on Saturday night and knit during the last few classes. Sunday I got up and took more classes (one on making parchement) and did measurements, chatted on text with the arts crewe and cut whole new larger and longer gussets. Then I moved up the goes to match the added width since I had cut them long to start with due to the math error. It now fits. Yay! Though mel was confusing me by saying it was too big...he though I wanted it super fitted. Honey, its going over a pleated underdress...I need the room!The apprentice is awesome and picked up tasty meat vittles at Forbes Butcher shop. They are super good (spendy though) but I used their bacon to make a diary free carbonara. the bacon while fatty crisped up perfectly and didn't have extra water content. It was worth it for that alone I think. But the dairy free parmesan I grated is perfect (brand is Violife Parm Wedge). I modified the Alton Brown recipe in his latest cookbook for breakfast carbonara. Tasty. Also since it was fresh cured bacon we actually needed to add salt. That was bizarre. So good. 10/10 I'm making it again.
After I made dinner I was on the West Kingdom Scriptorium Zoom. That was nice. Got to chat with folks from all over and talk through different ways to do stuff. Everyone learns differently and for me square hands are hard. I had Palmer method writing drilled into me for decades so I can't switch well. So, its okay. Had a nice time honestly and worked on my dress and got 1.5 seams hand finished. So all good. I will be trying to stop by there more. I need the influence to scribe more and I have commissions to work on anyway. My scribal supplies and my sewing machine are just staring at me right now shoved to the side of the desk. Sighs.
I also gave blood yesterday and for the first time in a really long time it hurt. And I got woozy later. So I think I was dehydrated so that is a thing. I've been slamming water a lot.
So this week I have to finish the dress and then get gussied up in the full ensemble for nice daylight pictures which means try to finish by friday so I can get things to the dry cleaner and then me in it. Hopefully I can accomplish this but oof lots of work. I can do it. Plus I have Friday off though I have a volunteer thing for work but its on zoom so I can sit and sew.
The other things we did do was unpack and setup the new tiffany lamps we bought. Trying to keep up with the 1920s aesthetic and they are so nice. course now I have a mix of compact fluorescent bulbs which have yellow light versus the LED which are white light. I will be changing things out for better light quality. We do want to replace the ceiling lights in the front room and the kitchen with tiffany style but need to pick one.
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Date: 2021-01-26 02:17 pm (UTC)Glad you were able to fix it!