Christmas came early.....
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galactusprime is awesome! Lengthy story behind post, probably not of much interest except to the costumers and embroiderers on my F-list....
A little background: we do lists for B-day and Holiday giving (both are fairly close to Christmas). More in particular, Himself gives me a list and then he is not supposed to get himself anything, on or off the list, from his B-day through Valentines. The list is usually full of Legos. I call this the Lego-free zone, and strictly enforce it :). He can be a little hard to buy for so I needed this for shopping defense.
And I can also be a bit hard to shop for so I try and give him a list too. This year, the eagerly anticipated new Janet Arnold book, Patterns of Fashion 4 was at the top of that list. I was hoping it would make it out for the B-day but not quite. That's ok I thought, I can wait until Christmas, I'm sure I would eventually see a friends copy in the meantime. I'd be allright. Then the reviews, actually, more like raves, started being posted on the costume and embroidery lists, and even the period lacers group. Waiting was getting a little harder. Then someone mentioned the nightcaps, and coifs represented in the book. Arrrgghhh!
You see, this year I have finally been pulling together several years of off-and-on research on coifs and nightcaps. Thanks to trips to work on the jacket at Plimoth and the stitches learned there, new information on the linen, and a pretty decent find of a good approximation of same, both projects were coming together very nicely. I'm planning on a blackwork coif first, then a polychrome nightcap. Pattern for the coif is almost worked out, need to test some fill patterns, but I was *this* close to putting archival pen to linen, a pretty definate point-of-no-return, when I heard about the coifs in PoF4. ARRRGGGHHH! I was *so* ready to stitch but how could I without being sure I had all the facts now available? I repeat: ARRRGGGHHH!
I tried to hold out, really I did, but yesterday I broke down and asked Himself if I could have a little Christmas early. I didn't know if he had ordered it or not and offered to take care of that for him if need be, you know, just to be helpful :). Wellll, it turns out he had been plotting with our housemate and she had already ordered it for him. Hmmm, she had gotten a box from book-crack, errr Amazon over the weekend, I wonder..... I had to go to a meeting last night but when I got home, there was PoF4 waiting for me! And it is everything the reviewers have been saying. I finally had to close it for sensory overload, but then nodded off to the 10pm news hugging it to my chest. Sigh. More indepth study tonight. May be a few tweaks on the coif pattern as a result. Pics of new coifs and nightcaps to be added to the research. Oh yeah, I'm a happy camper :).
Thanks Dear!!!
galactusprime is awesome! Lengthy story behind post, probably not of much interest except to the costumers and embroiderers on my F-list....A little background: we do lists for B-day and Holiday giving (both are fairly close to Christmas). More in particular, Himself gives me a list and then he is not supposed to get himself anything, on or off the list, from his B-day through Valentines. The list is usually full of Legos. I call this the Lego-free zone, and strictly enforce it :). He can be a little hard to buy for so I needed this for shopping defense.
And I can also be a bit hard to shop for so I try and give him a list too. This year, the eagerly anticipated new Janet Arnold book, Patterns of Fashion 4 was at the top of that list. I was hoping it would make it out for the B-day but not quite. That's ok I thought, I can wait until Christmas, I'm sure I would eventually see a friends copy in the meantime. I'd be allright. Then the reviews, actually, more like raves, started being posted on the costume and embroidery lists, and even the period lacers group. Waiting was getting a little harder. Then someone mentioned the nightcaps, and coifs represented in the book. Arrrgghhh!
You see, this year I have finally been pulling together several years of off-and-on research on coifs and nightcaps. Thanks to trips to work on the jacket at Plimoth and the stitches learned there, new information on the linen, and a pretty decent find of a good approximation of same, both projects were coming together very nicely. I'm planning on a blackwork coif first, then a polychrome nightcap. Pattern for the coif is almost worked out, need to test some fill patterns, but I was *this* close to putting archival pen to linen, a pretty definate point-of-no-return, when I heard about the coifs in PoF4. ARRRGGGHHH! I was *so* ready to stitch but how could I without being sure I had all the facts now available? I repeat: ARRRGGGHHH!
I tried to hold out, really I did, but yesterday I broke down and asked Himself if I could have a little Christmas early. I didn't know if he had ordered it or not and offered to take care of that for him if need be, you know, just to be helpful :). Wellll, it turns out he had been plotting with our housemate and she had already ordered it for him. Hmmm, she had gotten a box from book-crack, errr Amazon over the weekend, I wonder..... I had to go to a meeting last night but when I got home, there was PoF4 waiting for me! And it is everything the reviewers have been saying. I finally had to close it for sensory overload, but then nodded off to the 10pm news hugging it to my chest. Sigh. More indepth study tonight. May be a few tweaks on the coif pattern as a result. Pics of new coifs and nightcaps to be added to the research. Oh yeah, I'm a happy camper :).
Thanks Dear!!!
