Done!

For certain values of done, anyway. Last night I finished the beading. In case anybody has been following the saga of the beading needles on Facebook, the final coda to the whole silly thing was discovering last night that the beading needles I'd bought explicitly for the purpose are too big for the pearls. *facepalm* I had once again misplaced the needle I'd been using, so the final product is a bit heavier on beads as opposed to pearls than originally intended. However, the good news is that I found my original needle eventually and was able to apply a couple more rounds of peacock pearls, and it's not like the pearls aren't fabulous. Mmmm tiger's eye and gold beads...

Tonight, along with a bit of official business, I will be getting together with Katja so we can do the layout and get the orphery applied, and send the whole thing off to Pennsic. We're hoping to be able to send it by courier rather than having to resort to mail, but it'll get there one way or another...

I'm hoping somebody will post pictures of the final result, because I'm convinced it's going to be great. If so, I'll either post them or a link.

Oh, and just in case this week needed any more deadlines, I ended up doing my very first calligraphy project last night for court tonight. Whee!

Beads, beads and more beads

After spending Thalhurst's going away party on Friday applying cord and a solid push on Saturday, even despite misplacing, replacing and then finding my beading needle, I've got three strips with the cord all applied, and all the pearls and garnets on. Now I just need to make some aesthetic decisions about which beads I want and it should be wrapped up in about an evening.

Right now, that looks to be Tuesday. Tonight I've promised to help Sefa move, and Wednesday is folk moot.

Progressing

Work continues. Last night I took the project on the road to Nordskogen's Wednesday meeting to much acclaim. Everybody wanted to know what I was working on and was very wowed. I may have to borrow this plan for some of my own garb in the future.

I got all the pearls done on the second strip, and just barely started applying cord to the third. The second still needs a few beads, but it's all but finished.

Also fabulous was that Constanza was there, likes the design and decided to order a whole bunch more pearls to be mailed directly to me, which means that the pearling will be uniform and I will have no fear of running out. Yay!

After meeting, I went and hauled boxes for Idonea, Crispin and Sefa as part of phase 1 of their move. As a result, I currently have all of Crispin's archery equipment in my car. Bwah ha ha! *ahem* (If you know Crispin, it will come as no surprise that while Constanza may have wound up with custody of the title of his car, he readily admitted that the archery gear was significantly more important to him.)

I can sometimes work on projects while on meetings where I'm mostly listening, but sadly today I'm hosting, which is very much not conducive, and after work I will be (probably ;-) giving Crispin back his gear and helping with the move, so I don't know how much progress I'm likely to make today. But there is still lunch, so I'm going to try...