I want to thank Lorenzo for his kind comments/email/reminder about one of my principles, which means I've decided not to push on the green kirtle for RUM.
(Instead, all of you who will be there will see me lugging it around, probably sewing eyelets, or finishing seams, as that's pleasantly mindless.)
As much as I would like to show up in a lovely new kirtle copied from a painting, and dazzle everybody, I don't want to trash the rest of my life to do it, and the chances of me learning something important by dragging it around at RUM are significant, so that's what I'm doing.
If I push, and I do learn something wonderfully mind-shifting, then I'll have to remake it, or do a second one, and that violates Peasant Rule #1: Peasants don't have much stuff. In my mundane life, following PR#1 has frankly blessed my life by granting me more time that isn't involved in maintaining/storing/paying for stuff, and so allowing me to pay more attention to what I really want to be doing, so I will be patient and not push. (instead I will garden! which needs it! huzzah!)
I have made the German Hemd, and will wear that, since it's been under Testing, and Shows Promise. The little bit of tweaking it needs before RUM is no problem (I have to shift the gores down to put more room in the shoulders, and tighten the neck gathers). If I learn something spectacular about the Hemd, then I don't mind having an extra, since I'm planning on making several different sorts of models of shifts.
I have also had Cause to Remember that I am NOT in the SCA to amass a huge collection of enviable Things - I am in the SCA to learn how to Live Life Better. So you will see me in the plaid kirtle, yet again, a week from Saturday. But with a new hemd. And I will have to be grateful for that.
I so feel your pain. I wanted to make something new for RUM; but no, I'll be there in my *ancient* and *plain* chiton.
*sigh*
At least the end is in sight on the dissertation -- and I've got a place to live in Tifton -- with a sewing room. :-)
Can I haz 2 more weeks, plz?
Posted by: Jerusha Kilgore | July 18, 2007 at 12:49 PM