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Hi Rachel, I have looked for more photos of you, but that was not very successful. I found a link on...
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That lozenge pattern element is not a photograph, but a scan. So it should be to scale. But I pinned...
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I was not referring to Rachel's reconstruction (is the reconstruction you refer to the one photograp...
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There is something Rachel did not mention. She told me: "Well, I worked with the measurements we too...
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Well, this is certainly developing into an interesting discussion. Firstly, going from that lovely l...

All the stuff to do, it makes me queasy.

I am sadly, badly lagging behind now with a medium-sized stack of paperwork that I don't have much energy for at the moment, but need to tackle really soon ("really soon" as in "yesterday"). So... the plan for today consists of going to the kitchen to make some tea, sit down at the tent to work some, change to the computer and desk to take a break from sewing and do some of the relaxing paperwork, change back to tent, and so on, all the while consuming medium to large quantities of tea and chocolate.

The tent (as you can glean from the fancy progress bars now in the side of this blog) has already gotten a nickname: Tente à Grande Vitesse, short TGV. There's still a huge lot of work left on this, but things are not looking as bleak as they did on Saturday afternoon. We might even have enough wood in our stash to make the wood structure (which consists of only two uprights and one crossbeam) from non-hardware-store wood.

All the practice sewing on the other stall tent, by the way, seems to have elevated my saddler's stitch working speed quite a bit. When we started on the TGV, I checked how much seam I had gotten done in an hour, just to get a feeling if this project was doomed before it really started or now. If things run smoothly and I am not too tired, I sew about one metre in an hour. That's actually not too bad, I'd say.

On a totally different note: If you are waiting for updates on workshop offers for the Textile Forum, that is one bit of the paperwork I'm due to tackle today. Updates thus coming soon.
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Arachne (website) on Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:03

Good luck with the TGV!
It's a good thing you mentioned the textilforum workshops - I had completely forgotten about the deadline! I'm sending a mail about it right away...

Good luck with the TGV!
It's a good thing you mentioned the textilforum workshops - I had completely forgotten about the deadline! I'm sending a mail about it right away...
a stitch in time (website) on Thursday, 15 April 2010 10:43

Hah. And that is exactly why I wrote about the Forum. Isn't it nice when a plan actually works?

Hah. And that is exactly why I wrote about the Forum. Isn't it nice when a plan actually works?
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