things I want to do

[aryanhwy]

A list:

• Finish up the notecards I owe nz_bookwyrm. I have four of the five designs chosen, and most of them sketched out, so they really shouldn't take much more time. They are also sadly overdue.


• A few blank scrolls for the Gulf Wars gift basket, one using either this O or this O.


• Make a woollen panel hat, lined in linen, and decorated with the thick orange yarn I won in a Raglan raffle years ago. If we get back to Iowa in the summer and visit Joel's aunt and uncle, as a bonus maybe I can pick up some mink furs and make a fur lined or trimmed one. Maybe make one for the Gulf Wars gift basket, too.


• Make more wire jewelry. I'd love to investigate necklaces and bracelets.


• Finish my pewter mold and cast into it -- preferably before ID coronet.


• Make a parti-colored plaid cote-hardie the ones here; a color image of the woman's dress can be found here.


• Make a dress like the blue or pink one in the first row here -- complete with the pretty gold bandings.


• Make a heraldic surcoat (see also here), in Drachenwald colors.


• Make a belt like this one or this one.


• Except that I'm not Italian, make a slitted overdress like this one.


• Dress up like Dialectica. And maybe find an Aristotle to dispute with?


• Make an outer layer like the one here (I can't tell for sure from the image if the white is a separate layer from the red, but it looks like it. And it would be more versatile if it were).


• Make a dress like this (though Joel wants me to make one like this, since he says I have the figure to pull it off).


• Make a wooden box in the manner of master Svartulvur, always remembering while doing so the useful concept of "Laurel minutes".


• Make an embroidered copelet.


• Make a 14th-C-esque veil/head-covering. 12-Jan-14.


• Convert a photo of my cousin into a painting.

That's an awfully lot of sewing for someone who detests sewing as much as I do...

Comments

[nz-bookwyrm.livejournal.com]

I knew there was something I meant to discuss with you at Yule Ball...

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

So, a bunch of fitted gowns and a 12th c. outfit. ;-)

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It's a pity that history isn't a science by mediaeval standards or I could have joined you (I don't think that I would be a good Aristotle). I used the Astronomy + Ptolemaios image in my dissertation (and more lectures than I want to think of) and I love those drawings.

/Eva

[kareina.livejournal.com]

That is a lot of sewing, even for people who like it. But I suspect that your deadline isn't this month, and perhaps not even this year.

Is that heraldic surcote in addition to the tabard we have been talking about doing?

[math5.livejournal.com]

What do you go from for the panel hat?

[merlyn-gabriel.livejournal.com]

boesner.com is a good place in Germany for art supplies, they do mail order as well as have a lot of shops. I think the colses one to Heidelberg is probably Karlsruhe though so still a distance if you don't have a car.
http://www.boesner.com/unternehmen/standorte/deutschland

they are art shop that does wholesale as well as sells to regular customers the only hook is you need to create an account as a freischaffende kunstler ( freelance artist ) which you can do because you make art. They don't ask for much but in order to sell to non businesses they need to do this.

Also look for shops like Karstadt in the down town shopping part because they often have a fairly decent paper / stationary section that has art supplies as well.

also a good place to find information is Toytown an online place for non germans living in germany, there was a discussion about art supplies a long while back but maybe the information is still relevant.
http://www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t159935.html

there is also this which I found searching for "Heidelberg art supply shop"
http://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=artsupplies&find_loc=Heidelberg%2C+Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg