YASSSS GOLD CHARLIE IN PERSON |
It's been awhile. Part of this has been The Holidays, part of it two lurgies (the second one culminating in a mondo sinus infection that I'm still taking antibiotics for), part of it was, well, okay, *humblebrag* a trip to Germany where I got to see Gold Charlie (!!!1!), along with many other of our favorite hits. But to be entirely candid, my absence of either writing or, y'know, actual productivity has been the socio-political situation of the nation. I spend a lot of my time in states of rage or despair or both, and when I try to muster my forces to do something artistic or creative I am swamped with feelings of "what does this matter when the world is on fire?". I am working to retool my brain in this, because a) I have made commitments to people, b) mental health requires both downtime and creative time, and c) fuck these assholes[1] I'm gonna make things[2].
I did make some small progress on the pourpoint over the hols; I bowed 500 grams of cotton, which took two movies[3] to do (including rest breaks, which there were many of). I've ordered proper linen and silk sewing thread for the quilting work. And, I've re-stretched my base linen on the frame, but without setting it up completely, so the cats can't use it as a hammock; so all I have to do is pop the top part onto the standing part, and go. (Goal is to make the setup and takedown easy enough that I can get a reasonable amount done in an evening.)
This is the photo from the exhibition catalogue; the buttons in question are the three at center top. You can't see in this shot, but they have shanks that are about the same as the ones below them. |
Editorial and possibly too-judgy note: I do not for the life of me see how anyone can look at Gold Charlie and think those quilting lines are an after-market conservation add. Maybe it depends on how he'd been displayed in the past; I dunno.
Passementerie crown from a reliquary of Kunegunde; 14th century. Super nifty. Again, photo from catalogue |
Kinda small but click through, you'll see what I mean |
Anyways, getting back on the wagon: today I need to sketch out some ideas for [REDACTED], which is a team project with a longer fuse, but we want to get our designs settled & approved so we can appropriately source materials and plan out the work. After that, I'm going to crack the whip and get quiltin'. I want to have the final of the pourpoint commission done for Mudthaw, which is March 25th. This was a lot more plausible before I lost most of January to being sick; but if I could do the 19th Century Project in two months, by the Lord Harry[5] I can do this.
Current music: Pink Floyd, "On the Turning Away"
[1] Seriously: Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, was insinuating that the pussyhats were mass-produced in overseas sweatshops. Because dead white guys can't understand that we create things.
[2] I was away during the Pussyhat Project, to my sorrow, but I have procured two different yarns--one acid green, one flesh-and-dark-green, to make brain hats for the March for Science on Earth Day.
[3] Ladyhawke and Watership Down, if you really wanna work out the exact times
[4] What should we label this? Heraldic Eddie? Just plain ol' Eddie, since there's only one of him?
[5] I am trying to become less potty-mouthed, and find interesting oaths to use instead.
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