I've mostly been moving stuff, not sewing. But for a friend's birthday present I took the single layer linen jerkin he'd made and then wanted to line and lined it for him. He's a beginner, so it wouldn't have gone well for him to do it -- took a good bit of my experience and skills to make it work, stuff that it would have been nigh impossible for me to explain to him at his current level of experience, plus cut and sew on an edge binding. It looks pretty good and he's very happy, which is the important part.

Looking at finishing a "pith helmet" for Steampunk. Needs a second veil piece, and apparently needs to have the weight re-balanced -- too many flowers on one side :D I'm actually using a beekeeper hat I found at the local farmers co-op.

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Got an old bookcase out of the family barn -- yes, we still have stuff there. Cleaned it up, got L's help with knocking the back off of it -- rippled, separated luan. Replaced a smaller bookcase in the library with it and now the smaller bookcase is in the house, serving as additional pantry space for the family living with us.

I'm still having challenges figuring out what books to put where because some shelving is fixed height and pretty much all of the different categories of books have a wide variety of heights. I will make it work eventually, but it may take a while. I literally took a couple of the taller books this week and put them in the giveaway pile because I'm tired of dealing with finding homes for all the tall books. Also on the pile is another Piers Anthony book - hopefully the last - and all the MZB books I've found to date. The first because I find his treatment of men and women in relationships to be extremely juvenile and the latter because MZB. I like PA's concepts for some things so it's too bad he ruins things with making people be idiots. It was a bit hard to give up the Darkover books as they're connected to some good things during my college years, but really, those memories of good things won't disappear and room on the shelves is at a premium. There are a lot of writers out there after all.

Barn loom is disassembled and out in the library, waiting on fixing the floor in one of the barn stalls. A bookcase and hutch we'd moved out of the house because of lack of space is now back in the house (we'd moved the barn loom over into that space so that we could move the office downstairs).

Sewing stuff is moving into the newly opened space. Not all of it, and certainly not all of the fabric! But the fabric I'm working with right now, and some of the most likely next-in-line fabrics. The hutch is mostly good for small stuff, so I may move some things I stuffed into the basement back upstairs... we'll see. There's a light on the hutch that isn't working now -- L thinks the best thing is to replace it and I agree -- we tried to find a replacement bulb for the current fixture but it's some weird-sized halogen so it was a no-go. Would rather have LED anyway. It's a downward-pointing task light, really handy to have.

Moved a whole bunch of stuff in the trailer, covered a couple of possible access points in the floor (mice), got out an old corner entertainment center thing to use in the sewing area, and found SEVEN more boxes of books hiding under a table. If a folding table hadn't been leaning against the front of it I might have found those boxes sooner, but hey. Besides, I can only unpack so fast :D

We also moved another type cabinet from the family farm to our barn, cleaned it up, put shelves of type in it -- except one shelf that's currently missing. Still, a step forward in setting up the print shop.

AND we also moved my old dining room table, because we had to move it to get it out of the way for moving the cabinet and the table decided it needed to partially disassemble itself in a way that couldn't be easily reassembled.

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Some more stuff, in brief:

- Clothing swap went well last week

- A person we know lost her home and barn to fire the same weekend as the swap. She and her dog are safe. Fundraising stuff is happening.

- Refreshed my memory on how to walk on stilts, and tried out a weird spiral climbing thing at Double Edge Theater.

- had a physical exam, still have to do some blood work and a mammogram. Anticipate both being non-events, but of course that's to be determined/confirmed

- Working on creating new pain management routine

NoNewSewMo

- Patching/mending pile (mostly pants)
Patched two pair of pants, fixed a couple of seams on the new-to-me pink tiered skirt
- Finish ends of lace trim on curtains for radiant and pantry rooms
Done
- Marinus Blackwork
Two more small squares of this done (30x30 squares)
- Finished the neck opening on a dress I started earlier in the year, since it was sitting on top of the mending

Still to do:

Make/attach ruffle onto pink linen skirt
Make/attach ruffle on wine linen skirt
Finish edge trim and hangers on wall hanging for dining room
Sew on bits and bobs on blue/multi scarf

Also found a project I started ages ago, of turning a tea towel into two towels with a hanger bit at the top, and found some scrap to use for the hangers