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Misc. Random
Feb. 19th, 2008 01:13 pmI indeed started bicycling to work this week ... which caused it to rain on Tuesday. I claim full credit for helping add to this year's water table. While the light is sufficient for safe bicycling now, it's still quite cold out there -- I kept my jacket zipped up for the entire lunchtime ride without raising too much of a sweat. The shoreline ride produced a great variety birds -- at least one each of all the usual suspects: coots, scoters, perhaps a goldeneye, cormorants, curlews, black-necked stilts (which always look way too exotic to be native), snowy egrets, terns, and of course the ubiquitous gulls and ducks.
Sunday evening I worked up a new doublet pattern, interpolated between my old early 15th c. one (which I don't seem to have kept a paper draft of) and the Pandolfo Malatesta fragments from Textile Conservation, which are closer to the decade I'm aiming for. I then proved the effectiveness of my fabric stash database by querying it on what yardage I had with the specifications fiber=wool, width >=54, remaining_length >=51, weight=medium. When I sorted through the dozen results and eliminated anything where the available length was greater than 150% of my target (since that would be wasteful), it reminded me that I had this lovely little piece of dark burgundy-brownish satin-face wool in bin #22 that would be just perfect. So that's all cut out and ready to sew. I had less luck turning up a length of wool that would inspire me for the outer garment. Most of the longer pieces I have are in the red range, which doesn't sit well with me against the doublet fabric. There's also a bright peacock blue, but I just don't think so. There's a very soft camel-colored piece that's the right weight but ...nah. I keep leaning towards something in a dark green, but the only length I have in that color range at the moment is too light weight. I may have to shop ... alas.
( And to finish, girly TMI filtered through a geek lens. )
Sunday evening I worked up a new doublet pattern, interpolated between my old early 15th c. one (which I don't seem to have kept a paper draft of) and the Pandolfo Malatesta fragments from Textile Conservation, which are closer to the decade I'm aiming for. I then proved the effectiveness of my fabric stash database by querying it on what yardage I had with the specifications fiber=wool, width >=54, remaining_length >=51, weight=medium. When I sorted through the dozen results and eliminated anything where the available length was greater than 150% of my target (since that would be wasteful), it reminded me that I had this lovely little piece of dark burgundy-brownish satin-face wool in bin #22 that would be just perfect. So that's all cut out and ready to sew. I had less luck turning up a length of wool that would inspire me for the outer garment. Most of the longer pieces I have are in the red range, which doesn't sit well with me against the doublet fabric. There's also a bright peacock blue, but I just don't think so. There's a very soft camel-colored piece that's the right weight but ...nah. I keep leaning towards something in a dark green, but the only length I have in that color range at the moment is too light weight. I may have to shop ... alas.
( And to finish, girly TMI filtered through a geek lens. )
