CoffeeBuzz: Observations on almost everything

Just confirmed that I'm attending the Lion's Head Tavern event held by the Barony of Bright Hills (Baltimore, MD... though the actual event itself will be in a location roughly an hour away from there) on the second weekend of November. Someone from Bright Hills (or was it one of the neighboring groups?) was talking to me in a dance workshop at Pennsic back in August, and suggested I come and visit an event. Had a reminder email on this one the other day, so I said "count me in". Looks like I've got another SCAdian road trip in my future.

Well, make that way behind. Need to clean the tent canvas, reorganize the totes I use for hauling stuff to Pennsic, fix my turnshoes, find my other boots, and finish three dresses I'd begun last year and then abandoned in various stages of construction once I picked up some other, higher-priority projects. (This, in addition to the other three that had never made it past the planning stage until last weekend, when full prep mode set in.)

The good news: I will have to re-pattern and re-cut some of the pieces on the partially-finished dresses, because I've lost weight since I first started them. They're fitted gowns with laced closures, but if I just went ahead with them in the size they are now, I could lace them up tightly and they'd still be too loose. Not a problem I mind having at all, but definitely going to make more work. The bad news: I may have to replace some segments entirely, and I'm not altogether sure I have enough of one particular fabric to do it. So I might wind up parti-colored or parti-patterned whether or not I was originally planning on it, since I could replace some of those segments with a matched jacquard. And if I'm smart, I'll make the redesigned gowns a bit on the small side, because with laced closures I can alter the fit and I'll get more use out of them before I have to start looking at taking them in again.

Just another day in the life of a costumer, I guess. Time to hit up Jo-Ann Fabrics and see what looks good.