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My sewing machine it appears has gremlins because despite me fiddling with it and not getting anywhere all the engineer had to do was rethread it...I feel slightly foolish but have managed to make up for this by sewing things today. The first was a doublet I decided it was about time I had. They are such elegant garments and I have a nice brocade so now several hours later I have an almost finished doublet in red and gold.

Then I decided to work on the waistcoat pattern that I needed for my hedgehog. This too has been sewn rather more rapidly than expected. I love it when a pattern works especially when I sort of guess my way forwards.

Both garments have roughly the same thing left to do one them, sleeve holes, button holes and buttons.

I have started on Mole 2.0 which should fix a few of the niggles of Mole 1.5...

On top of that I have been good and done my Monday cleaning so I feel accomplished. It's amazing what a working sewing machine does for my mood.

Having started a lot of projects yesterday I felt the urge to finish something today. So I set about looking at the crafts that could be made as efficiently as possible.

I dipped the Hedgehog spines a bit more. They might be ready or I might need one more grading of colour. I've not quite decided.

I then finished the Rabbit Hat which by a slight miscalculation ended up being about half an inch too small for my head. Not that that was important as such.

I also finished the hat I plan on using as a base for the hedgehog spines so once they are done I can get that out of the way as well.

Then I decided to work on my bracer of calligraphy things. I think it worked. Though am not sure the pen looks right so might swap that for something else.

All in all a semi productive day. I can't quite get enough energy together to work on something else as well despite knowing that tomorrow I'll have to do a lot of cleaning to catch up.

My energy levels I blame on the wierd dream I had with a dryad that could heal people, but needed to get energy from the blood of her victims which she then cast revenge spells with...Not sure what my brain was up to there.

I took my mock up apart and used it to cut out a load of pieces that I've now pieces together. Made sleeves of flowiness and put the thing on. This is the point when I realised that I had made a slight error. I had underused the seam allowance.

A few seams taken in and I was back to making a lovely top until I suddenly took in a seam too many...Oops. I'm now suffering from unfortunate boob squishage >_<

Having misplaced my first seam ripper I managed by fluke to find the other one so I'm now taking it apart as I watch the next episode of Sanctuary.

A troll named Sue

I started a new rpg game a while back with a vague idea of being something different and breaking what other people have called my tendency to have short characters (Halflings and such). Well actually I just went "oooh trolls! Sounds interesting..."

( cut for roleplay ramble )

Oh and on the sewing front I sewed the sleeves on wrong yet again *sigh*

So midnightoak and lucian_albrecht are coming this evening so that we can enmasse travel down to Monmouth tomorrow for gran's celebration of the big 90.

This has lead to me making sure that the double bed in the spare room can actually be used and the floor of our spare bed/crafting/hobby/storage room is actually visible for what has to be the first time since before Artificer in October. When, most likely, it was cleaned for much the same reason.

The downside of this is that my lungs now feel like I've got the dust of a thousand dead crafting projects in them. The Upside is that I can now use this floor space for the pattern laying out and material cutting that my current projects inevitably need.

So without much further ado I shall return to said task after my necessary break for food and drink.

Edit: Oh and for those interested in such things I've posted an ic post in the Artificer Forum

Our heroine's journey started on the day of yester when she helped paint wiserabbit's and kardrath's shiny new house, partially by torch light as not all of the lamps worked. It was a fun experience but in addition to the textured wallpaper didn't help with the creation of small white spots...
The black of her clothing made it also very apparent when paint was suddenly attached to the wrong things. This was however not really too much of a shame as she had been hoping to take her shirt apart for a pattern for age but hadn't had a good reason to take it off the possible clothing list.

After a rather nice sleep in the spare bed, that was unfortunately interrupted by her body deciding that 6.15 was a completely sensible time to wake, the house was revisited to see how much second coating would be needed. This was soon abandonned however for the chance to visit Beeston with cameras. People were met, hats were worn and goth goat got worshipped.

Thereafter followed lunch at Stamford Bridge where our plucky heroine, having had cake the night before decided to be good and watched others scoff their calorie rich yummy snacks with glee. Conversation was a delight and after invites for heated beverages at the heroine's abode which was enjoyable consumed, she now sits in her vacated living room eating her bowl of berries and working out which photos she thinks are worth uploading to flickr before she collapses and heads for her bed.

So I have two days in lieu of the weekend that I am working. That's tomorrow and Friday just so you know. I've decided (now that I'm healthy and full of random energy) to create a list of things I really need to do and see how far I get. I'm putting it up here for general amusement and the fact that I can't lose this page but never find that scrap of paper I wrote things on. So in no particular order...

( Cut for waffly length )

Right we'll see how far I get

I have finished choccoweeble's dress!

Now I just have my own parti coloured cotehardie to do. It's only parti coloured as I didn't have enough of the dark blue for a full colour one. That said I think it will probably look cooler this way.

I had one sewing emergency when having just sewn two inches of zigzag this morning I suddenly was only getting straight stitch out of the machine. After about 30 mins of panic and 1 hour of trying to work out a solution I finally realised that oiling it might help. Some wd-40 and the thing is working wonderfully again. *Phew*

So here's to me being hopefully faster than I thought I would be in getting my sewing out of the way...

So most of those who read my previous post will know I'm working this weekend. Stupidly early as well. This has however left me with two days off in the week instead which has been a bit novel.

Thursday I rose early and played some Zelda: Twilight Princess, while I put some washing on. I then started on choccoweeble's swish dress for Artificer. Determined not to let the after affects of my mild fever on Monday/Tuesday get in the way I whipped the main body of the thing together while listening to David Tennant reading Doctor Who and the Feast of the Drowned.
The material frayed like mad so my first stop when I restart will be to zigzag everything *yawn*... However it fit first time without need for adjustments.
To end the day we went to the cinema and watched 'Run, Fat Boy, Run'

Today I again rose early and proceeded to play some Zelda (with washing on again) but abandonned it a bit faster as I had promised to tidy the living room a bit. In a fit of annoyance or determination (hard to tell the two apart sometimes) I started by clearing the entire hallway and hoovering it and then culled all the shoes and coats so that it can be used by guests again and finding my jacket will be easier (there were 2 of mine to about maybe 14 odd for choccoweeble, or at least that's how it felt as I removed them). I then did the living room before eating and going shopping. Took the glass recycling with me as I watched the men go past the window this morning and I'd forgotten they were coming...
I came back and proceeded to strip the kitchen. I can now see all my tea tins again!
So now I'm waiting for choccoweeble to get home so she can make me the cup of tea I really deserve. I'd do it myself but I'm feeling a bit lazy now.

SO I'm a little further down my too do list. I've sorted through my chest of items, only putting what is absolutely necessary back into it.

I've sewn two waterproof hessian sacks for the kindling and Charcoal because who needs wet fuel on a rainy campsite? Plus all IC looking too so doesn't seem strange next to the firepit. ;)

Then I've started to take in my tunic. Slight issues taking in the back however as I'm not a contortionist and I can't see behind me. :/ Trying to work out how to adjust it and who would be best of helping me as it's not exactly straightforward.

So just deciding what task to tackle next. My trousers or something else...