Just Create Weekend - Holy crap it's February already

[silvercat17]

How did THAT happen?

New month, same deal - whatcha up to? What did you get done during the week?

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[silvercat17]

This week, I got my new car registration (and I just put the sticker on the license plate) and nearly finished tacking on the applique on my Dickens Fair vest.

This weekend, I'm going to finish my part of the vest and hopefully finish my hat. I also want to get started on my sabretache (writing pouch that goes on the sword belt) if I have time.

I've got the button frogs gluing onto the vest so in a couple of hours I can tack those down and then do touch-up embroidery where the applique was already worn. I've finally gotten the trim for my hat, which is actually TOO wide, but I'll just fold a section over, no problem.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Yay for legal driving! Yay for trim work!

[alexseanchai]

where the firelight fades is up to 49K and I am FINALLY working on the last chapter

[kellan_the_tabby]

WOO HOO

[wolfy_writing]

I'm doing the early sketches for what will hopefully be a hand-illustrated book on different kinds of mushrooms. (Not for publication, but the structure of the project is helping me learn a lot both about art and about mushrooms.)

[kellan_the_tabby]

... oh, that sounds REALLY cool!

[wolfy_writing]

Thanks! I'm not sure if I'll be able to complete it, but I'm treating it like a thing I'm going to finish, and I'm going to try to make it as good as I can.

[kellan_the_tabby]

It sounds like a fun process, too.

[silvercat17]

Oh that sounds neat

[wolfy_writing]

Thanks! It's fun!

[kellan_the_tabby]

This is the Weekend of Roof, in which I get as much done of the tinker's wagon roof as I can in two days! Because I leave for Estrella in two weeks! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

So far I've gotten as much as I can get done up top -- literally, because I ran out of housewrap, tyvek tape, & staples all at the same time. Sometimes the universe says 'stop that' pretty clearly.

Now I'm working from the ground, cutting & painting some of the trim that'll run along the edges of the roof & hold the tarp down. It's involving some angle cutting that is DEEPLY no fun so I'm taking a little break to rethink what I'm doing, but I have an idea or two now.

[silvercat17]

Woo! You can do it!

[kellan_the_tabby]

so much Thing *flop*

[kellan_the_tabby]

discarded complex, decorative idea

discarded simpler idea

settled on 'hack up a couple 2x4s & call it good OH MY GODS

also put the trim along the back edge of the roof that'll hold down the folded-over edge of the tarp. that'll be the front edge while driving, so it's got to be extra-secure. that end of the roof is ALMOST road-ready now!

i am FUCKING EXHAUSTED pardon my anglo-saxon

tomorrow i'm gonna do the same with the left edge of the roof -- cut the edge of the tarp & fasten it down with trim -- & see if I can get part of the front wall done as well.

[lonespark]

woo Estrella! godspeed with your stuff!

[kellan_the_tabby]

Thank you! You gonna be there?

[ryl]

I've gotten to the end of my first skein of yarn for my striped afghan. Five more to go.

It's a stupidly simple pattern that I came up with when I first learned to crochet. It's a training afghan because you use each of the basic stitches for each stripe.

Pattern for those who are interested

1. Ch 150
2. Ch 1, turn, sc in each ch across
3. Ch 2, turn, hdc in each sc
4. Ch 3, turn, dc in each hdc, change color at end of row
5. Ch 1, turn, sc in each dc
6. Repeat rows 3-5 until done or you are driven insane, whichever comes first.

[readera]

I've been spinning yarn on my spindle recently. I just took off the spindle's worth of yarn and put it on a makeshift bobbin (unused chopstick). I pre-drafted a bunch of roving, so next time I can just start!

[lonespark]

Two weeks ago I went to Market at Birka & bought some calligraphy books. Haven't done any, or even read much, but I'm excited about it.

Also hoping to get more involved in the SCA again this year here in Stonemarche (where my kids live & I hope to to move...)

I haven't been writing or reading fic much cuz I'm still trying to sort out divorce stuff that should have been resolved 1.5 yrs ago & it's kinda... draining my soul & free time.

But also I've been reading more. Kicked off Black Futures Month by finishing the Broken Earth series. I feel like I want to scream about how fantastic it is but the Hugo awards kinda did that for me. But I enjoy it extra cuz of all the geology-related stuff. And there's so much room in the world for so many more stories...

[kellan_the_tabby]

AUGH i miss Birka SO MUCH

one of these years ...

[lonespark]

I miss Estrella so much. And Outlandish!

Took the kids to Great Northeast War a couple of times, but never did any group stuff here in the East yet. Hoping to change that.

And hoping to take the kids back out west one of these years...

[kellan_the_tabby]

SCA Exchange Program?

[lonespark]

That would be awesome!