The pourpoint is DONE. I moved the final card from "In Progress" to "Completed" on the ole kanban board last night; the subsequent celebration of which I am still feeling a tad this morning, ahem. Also I am having a giant smug that I did not quite run out of the quilting thread--there's about a yard and a half remaining.
Naturally, that is not the end of the matter. The garment is finished, but the project is not; I'll need to finish the linen test version at some point (oh god more quilting) (at least it'll be laced, not buttoned). More immediately, however, I need to get my documentation ready for the competition. I have the basic skeleton already--I wrote my usual couple of pages[1] for when I showed it at Pennsic--so I can expand from there, including all of the neckbeardy detail that one is usually wiser to excise in documentation meant for the general public. I am reasonably sure I can knock that out today and still have leisure to make Rôti de Porc Poêlé aux Choux for dinner. No, I'm more concerned about the rest of the display and how to arrange it. Obviously I'll have my test swatches and samples of the different padding materials; maybe a couple of spare buttons, too; but I am chewing on what else to include--there's a fine line between "interesting additional detail" and "a giant cluttered mess". And I really don't want to faff around with a science-fair style tri-fold standup. Dear past me: maybe I shoulda gone to one of these before entering, just to see how other people roll.
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| Silk Clothing, BNF Nouvelle acquis. lat. 1673 |
Anyways: staying focused: today I write the actual paper, and also dig out linen to use for veils (or learn that I don't have anything suitable). I have two weeks to freak out about my presentation.
--LATE BREAKING SUDDEN INSPIRATION: look at the various Tacuinum images of tailor shops and make it look like one of those? hmm.
[1] which, as usual, almost no one read, hey ho
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