misc from Friday & Sat a.m.
Nov. 18th, 2006 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenPicked up night guard then went to Webs and Stop&Shop. Picked up nice yarns for future weaving projects, as well as some stuff for a surprise.
Sundry correspondence items, personal, baronial, Yule, NS/BB (some more possible teachers!), etc. Worked on cross-stitch patterns for baronial awards. I know cross-stitch as a standalone isn't period (or at least I'm pretty sure...), but it's a start and there're some very eager embroiderers chomping at the bit. Still have one more to go, then color key charts (Anchor & DMC), then uploading them to the Berg web site. Then maybe I'll redo them all as outlines that can be done on counted fabric and filled in...hmm. What I'd like is to make traceable patterns for freehand, but I have to find out what's available for doing that. There's always coloring on the back of the paper design with a pencil...
We did a bit of work on the studio and printshop. I got the warping board hung up between two of the big windows and hung some of my yarns off of it. Looks pretty and gets them out of the way for now. I think we need to get a few more storage bins. The solid Rubbermaids are okay for some of the stuff, but I'd prefer clear-sided for most things. We won't get a lot of strong direct sunlight in there, so sunfade isn't really an issue.
Dropped off the surprise package at MacCarthaigh-MacMinn for them to finish up, and looked at some of the scrolls the new folks have been doing, and they're all looking great! Emma is especially amazing, D.Moiselle's doing well but will need to do some future work on strokes with Phred and/or me -- with a little bit of work on that, she'll be doing kingdom scrolls. Phred thinks Emma should be doing some of those as well, and I agree.ellid did a very nice capital as well, which will be seen at Yule :)
Made jello salad, which we'll be taking to the farm today.fitzw's pie didn't turn out, unfortunately. See his post on that. Did a little spinning while watching Numbers.
We're about to set out for the farm. We're meeting Gryff and Azure up there to cut down the trees for the 'forest', before going to the family Thanksgiving dinner. Then we'll be leaving that at about 3pm to head down to Ernie's place for a little bit.
Sundry correspondence items, personal, baronial, Yule, NS/BB (some more possible teachers!), etc. Worked on cross-stitch patterns for baronial awards. I know cross-stitch as a standalone isn't period (or at least I'm pretty sure...), but it's a start and there're some very eager embroiderers chomping at the bit. Still have one more to go, then color key charts (Anchor & DMC), then uploading them to the Berg web site. Then maybe I'll redo them all as outlines that can be done on counted fabric and filled in...hmm. What I'd like is to make traceable patterns for freehand, but I have to find out what's available for doing that. There's always coloring on the back of the paper design with a pencil...
We did a bit of work on the studio and printshop. I got the warping board hung up between two of the big windows and hung some of my yarns off of it. Looks pretty and gets them out of the way for now. I think we need to get a few more storage bins. The solid Rubbermaids are okay for some of the stuff, but I'd prefer clear-sided for most things. We won't get a lot of strong direct sunlight in there, so sunfade isn't really an issue.
Dropped off the surprise package at MacCarthaigh-MacMinn for them to finish up, and looked at some of the scrolls the new folks have been doing, and they're all looking great! Emma is especially amazing, D.Moiselle's doing well but will need to do some future work on strokes with Phred and/or me -- with a little bit of work on that, she'll be doing kingdom scrolls. Phred thinks Emma should be doing some of those as well, and I agree.
ellid did a very nice capital as well, which will be seen at Yule :)Made jello salad, which we'll be taking to the farm today.
fitzw's pie didn't turn out, unfortunately. See his post on that. Did a little spinning while watching Numbers.We're about to set out for the farm. We're meeting Gryff and Azure up there to cut down the trees for the 'forest', before going to the family Thanksgiving dinner. Then we'll be leaving that at about 3pm to head down to Ernie's place for a little bit.
