I think the link has repeated itself and is getting squished together twice
in a row... maybe that's why it's seems to having that issue.  In any case,
here's the link again:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=jq8t100.nqqmx58&x=0&y=-tik0q


On 5/23/06, Sharon at Collierfam.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I keep getting "album not found"

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Subject: Re: Current projects (was Re: [h-cost] hello out there??)


Beautiful !  Thanks for sharing.

Susan

"Slow down. The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too
fast and you miss all you are traveling for". - "Ride the Dark Trail" by
Louis L'Amour

On May 22, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Kristin wrote:

> Well, I haven't had a chance to upload recent pictures until this
> evening,
> but here's a link to the late 1700's outfit I've been working on since
> the
> fall:
>
> http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=jq8t100.nqqmx58&x=0&y=-tik0q




<http:
> //www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=jq8t100.nqqmx58&x=0&y=-tik0q>
>
> I'm procrastinating on the quilted petticoat again, by making a pair
> of stays.  I guess I'll be finished with the binding within the next
week
> and
> will have to go back to quilting for a while.  My next procrastination
> project is to make pockets... and then maybe start making another
> shift, but
> of linen this time around... and then...
>
> I'm so very happy to see that I'm not the only one who works on
> multiple
> projects simultaneously.  It used to drive my ex nuts... but I guess
> he was
> never around anyone else who had a creative streak in them!
>
> Kristin
>
>
>
> On 5/22/06, Catherine Olanich Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On Sunday 21 May 2006 11:48 pm, Sue Clemenger wrote:
>> > I think I'm right about where you are, garb-wise, Cathy.  My
>> "laundry
>> list"
>> > wasn't really an indication of my Extreme Expertise and Skills, but
>> more
>> > like the results of being consitutionally incapable of project
>> monogamy.
>>
>> Same here, which was part of my point.  However, you have attempted a
>> wider variety of projects than I have (see below).
>>
>> > Deity help me, a couple of weeks ago, I was encountering my first
>> power
>> > tool (a drill press) in a friend's garage, learning to register
>> soapstone
>> > molds so I can carve the molds and make my own pewter buttons for
>> fitted
>> > gowns.
>>
>> Now anything that requires power tools is a bit farther than I've
>> cared to
>> go!
>> I'm still waffling about using that sheet copper I bought to try to
>> make a
>> Viking style needlecase-and I can do that with only a dowel and a
>> pair of
>> pliers (and maybe crazy glue).
>>
>>
>> > I'd love to hear more about you Lithuanian shawl!
>>
>> One of the things the lands along the Baltic seem to have in common
>> (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, parts of Finland, even Novogorod) is
>> that the
>> rich tended to ornament their clothes by working bronze coils and
>> rings
>> into
>> them.  (Most of the 1st-10th c textile finds in those areas have
>> survived
>> because the bronze ornaments preserve a fair amount of the cloth.
>> Since
>> most
>> of the ornamentation was at the edges, you get a good idea of the
>> size of
>> the
>> ornamented items.)
>>
>> Based on where the metal ornaments were found, it appears that there
>> was a
>> standard shawl size (roughly 30 inches by 40 inches).  The proper way
>> to
>> do
>> the ornamentation would be to weave the shawl to order, and wrap
>> strips of
>> sheet bronze or bits of bronze wire around certain warp threads as I
>> worked,
>> but I'm not likely to learn how to weave  anything bigger than a
>> tablet-woven
>> belt anytime soon.  So what I'll probably do is kind of corkscrew
>> pieces
>> of
>> copper wire into already woven wool (I have some nice wool melton cut
>> and
>> fringed for the purpose).  Then, I will make smaller coils of copper
>> wire,
>> string them onto a cord, and couch them onto each short end.
>>
>> Raymond's Quiet Press started making the kind of stick pins that (it
>> has
>> been
>> theorized) were used to fasten these shawls.  There's a picture of the
>> design
>> here:
>>
>> http://www.quietpress.com/New2004.html
>>
>> (look under "new in October 2004"; it's the left-hand picture, the
>> item on
>> the
>> far right).
>>
>> They were used in pairs, fastened together with bronze chains.  The
>> pins
>> attached to them are huge--as big as knitting needles (the same is
>> true of
>> the actual survivals Raymond's model is based upon).
>>
>> Having finally bought myself a pair from Raymond as a birthday
>> present, my
>> theory is that the pins were never meant to go through anything other
>> than
>> the shawl.  Once you fasten them to the shawl (I've already tried
>> this)
>> you
>> can take the shawl off and on over your head  (really, really
>> carefully,
>> to
>> make sure you don't gouge out your eyes) as a unit, without risking
>> damage
>> to
>> the rest of your body or clothes.
>>
>> I have already finished most of the rest of the costume the shawl is
>> to be
>> worn with.  When I finally finish the shawl, I'll put a picture in the
>> MedCos
>> gallery and post the URL to it here.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> "I'm starting to like the cut of this man's gibberish." --General
>> Fillmore (from "The Tick," episode 2)
>>
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