Rosalie Gilbert

I know I should be doing a multitude of other things, but while I was sorting out some clothing for my sister's kids to wear to the big medieval event of the year, I thought that it might be nice to adjust some things I bought earlier in the year- a green wool, hedeby style hood and a generic leaf green cloak.

Both have aspects which aren't correct, historically, and the plan always was to use the wool and upgrade them when I had time in the future for use in my century, even if they aren't quite right for that. Extant items have gores in some of the same places, but smaller.

Since they were out and I had a movie on and didn't want to tackle anything really big, I started unpicking the machine-finished seams with a view to seeing how much work there was to upgrading sooner rather than later. So now those are on the potential horizon. I still have a number of other jobs to do before Abbey Medieval Festival but maybe the green hood will become my next work lunchtime sewing project after I finish the grey hood.

I'm still finishing the Polish kontusz which is so very, very long overdue but MUST be done by July, (and would be a surprise for next weekend if I could manage it.)

I have a lot of social media to do for my publisher, and have been slowed down with cleaning for house inspections and falling off a ladder which resulted in a lot of swelling and pain but no broken bones or internal organ injury according to the X-Rays and CT scan I had in Emergency.

It's bitterly cold here at the moment and my little kitty has become a heater hog. Wherever it is, so she goes. I can't afford to have it on all the time, of course, and usually it's just to warm up the space before bed, but I've had it on a number of times through the day while I sew. Other times working with a hot water bottle on my lap seems to be nice.