Sewing on the bus

Well i did it. I finished the 6 gold shirts early this morning. I cleaned up the house because my housemate is having friends over tonight. Them on the bus to work i took up the whole cal seat and but all the thread ends off. Sure i got a few looks but it was after rush hour so i wasn't depriving anyone of a seat! Shirts should be collected today. Pity i do still have more to do. Might try and knock them over this weekend.

Beds should be for sex and sleep, not sewing!

Well i'm burning the candle at both ends. I've conceded defeat in that i can't get 12 shirts done for saturday, but by god i'll try and get 6 done! Now i'm down to hems, button holes and buttons. I'm in bed pinning the hems now. I'm out tomorrow night and my housemate has guests friday night. Not sure how i'll manage it, i guess there will be early morning and late night sewing to get them done. Thank goodness i have a new sewing machine that has auto buttons and button holes!

Mobile blogging

New phone, new camera in the phone. Add a bus trip to work and voila!

Photographic Evidence!

This is the Howard Collins Band at their Gig on NYE 07/08. I made the shirts.

This is Michael the pianist

And this is Kurt on the left playing Lead Guitar and Daniel on the Right playing Bass.

They're all really lovely guys who are quite appreciative of my work!

On other things

Not much has been happening here for quite some time. Not surprising really... But in the last month and a bit I have undertaken some Non-SCA sewing. Long story short, was introduced to a guy who runs a number of bands and was asked to make some shirts for the band.

This was actually harder than I really thought and expected, but I managed to complete 6 shirts from scratch for their New Years Eve gig. I also whipped up some collar and cuff/facing detail on some existing shirts in time for the gig too. Hopefully I'll get some photos up here soon.

I still have another two sets of 6 shirts to complete before March so I really need to do all of that first seeing as I'm being paid for it (which is helping fund my trip to NZ).

On the SCA list of things to do with the thousand dollars* worth of fabric I have under my bed:
1. Hollandish
2. Venetian
3. Silk painted banner for Andre (which I promised by this Festival)
* I guesstimated the price and I did not spend that much on the fabric

Also I need to finish the armholes on the Blue Dress of Disasters, which I ended up making oversleeves for.

I'm sure there's other things I'll need to sort out but the paying job is first.

Closed for Re-Construction

Yesterday afternoon Derek broke up with me.

Subsequently I am taking a short break from the blog to piece myself back together.

Short answers:

I'm OK

No I don't know what I'm going to do (ie move back etc)

No I don't really want to talk - I am OK though.

Phone calls, emails and texts are appreciated but please understand if I don't respond, answer etc

I can't say what happened, I'm still deciphering it myself.

So for a short while, bye.

Dez's Banner

Some how I forgot to add the finished pic of Dez's banner