Here is a pictures of the finished lucet cord.  I decided to finish a bracelet-length piece of it rather than unweave it and start over.

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I'm past the halfway point - Go me! (And everyone else making Art Every Day in the Month of November.)

Friday I finished a shirt I started in October.  I need to spend some time with my machine and understand how to get the embroidery to come out better, but it is still a nice piece.

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It's been a bit of an esoteric few days. I haven't made anything concrete, but I did finish the three-act "skit" for January.  My actors haven't revolted, so it looks like this production might not only happen, but has potential to be good ( Read more... )

So Monday was a little bit of a bust - I had made ready to do some English Country Dancing, but there was a TV crew blocking all the parking at the practice location, and so there were only three of us at the park for dancing. It wasn't enough to make a set, and we all knew the dances already.  We did a bit of a walk-through with different music - ( Read more... )

So I've pretty-much been weaving and writing since my last post.  I have a little more than six inches of the band done, and have a good handle on the tension. I've also been working on my Skit that will be performed in January.  Sorry, no pictures, I keep forgetting to take them ( Read more... )

Not much today, but I did do some writing. Act I of a small play for 12th night is done and posted.  Looking forward to weaving tonight.

Not much, but there is no volume requirement ( Read more... )

Weaving and Writing today.  I think I have the plot I want for a short play I'm producing, and I spent hte evening warping my loom.

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A slow start for AEDM, but it was a busy weekend.

• Friday, November 1 Planning.
  I also took time to make some costume repairs on two of my 16th-Century dresses, replacing the lacers and adjusting the straps in a kirtle, and adjusting the sparkly adornments on another.
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So I'm not enough of a writer to attempts a novel, but I do have four art projects that need doing before the year is over, so Art Every Day might help me make progress on all of them.
So here is my To-Do list:

1. Poetry commission - 14th century love ballad for one of the sweetest couples I know.
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