Had a whirlwind excursion to New York City on Saturday. Planned a trip, my sisters and I, to go see the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Besides seeing all of the wonderful items that they have at the museum, we made a stop to the American Girl store for my sister to pick up a doll she wanted to purchase. Made me think about how much fun it would be to get one of the 18 inch dolls and dress it up and Tudor an Elizabethan clothing. The closest one they have is a colonial doll that is retired. We took a stroll along Central Park, which is near the museum. Then proceeded to get dinner at Hard Rock Café and visit other stores a long Time Square. So I very productive and fun trip. We are planning on other trips in the future, however I think it's going to take us at least four trips to do and see most of the other sites we want to see.
While my feet were recovering from all of the extra walking we did on Saturday, Made some small progress on my coif project. I decided to put the lace on the edges ahead of time and markout a small bit of seam allowances for when I have to cut out the project. And I'm starting to fill in the goldwork along the bottom edge which is taking some time. I have also taken up learning lucet. Is a form of medieval cord making that helps one make drawstrings. I decided that I wanted to make about a 24 inch length worth of cord so I can use that as a drawstring on the back of my coif.
I've noticed that it's a little easier and making the cord when using string that's a little thicker. I started with shoelace because that was easy to work with. However I tried using some thick crochet string and that proved to be much more challenging with keeping all the tension correct. So I need to find a thickness between crochet thread and yarn. In order to make my drawstring easier to weave. While being able to have it small enough to go through the drawstring channel on the back of the coif.
Lastly, I picked up a few books from the Metropolitan Museum of art shop.
received one that was part of a exhibition from earlier that was on clearance in regards to miniatures for five dollars. Purchased one in regards to unicorn tapestries that I've tried to get at SCA auctions and was not able to obtain. And I got a small book of hours referencing medieval manuscripts, and another on calligraphy and illumination design. Hoping to find inspiration not only to do calligraphy and illumination, but also seeing if this might be a wonderful art form to do in needlework as well. So there's a lot of good information and much more reading that I will have to do in regards to these books. But that is at my own leisure.
In the meantime trying to focus on finishing up current projects in progress. And trying to find time and do planning for future projects. It's a never-ending process however it is always a good process. I have some documentation that I want to read in regards to some research for ice Dragon. I'm not exactly sure whether not I can have a project or research completely written by then but I am going to certainly try.
Well better get back to work,
Mairin
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