Amidst all the sickness and work stress I have finally gotten interested enough to buy fabric for a kirtle to wear under my wedding dress from 2003; thus making it a 15th century Venetian outfit. It's a printed silk, which I know is wrong, but at least it's silk taffeta and it's very pretty. I may even decide to use the unprinted side. The deadline is the SCA event Civil Wars in September.

Edited to add photo:


I've just put the fabric inside the wedding gown to give an idea of how it's supposed to look.

I've got an absolutely horrible cold. So bad that I just can't work, which really is very rare for me. I also lost my voice over teh weekend and it still sounds very funny and hurts if I talk to muhc. This would of course always be a problem for me, since I am a very talkative person, but now it is doubly so since I am to give one public speech (1,5 hours on 16th century clothing and changing perceptions of sex and gender) on Thursday and another on Saturday at the LGBTQ-festival (on the realtionship between clothing, masculinity and femininity from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.)
Today I've stayed home to try to recover, but tomorrow I first have a meeting with one of my daughter's psychologist, peopel from eher school etc and then a seminar where I will try and sell in an idea for an article to my colleagues. It's jus tthat I'm too ill to check out the stuff I needed to really show brilliant an idea it is.

What I do is to lie down and re-read the books in Susan Cooper's The Dark is rising series, cough an awful lot and in between try to cut out the pieces for a dress that I am going to sew to my best friend Inger as a birthday present. We went to buy the fabric this Saturdya, it's orange with a flower pattern that is sheer.

Today I have been in Borås, a neighbouring town, to the textile Museum to look at parts of their collection of clothes from the 1940s. 50s and 60s for a project idea that I have. But of course that was not the only thing that I saw; for example there was this lovely 1890s jacket:




( From the back )

( And this nice 1920s (suit?) jacket )

I am slowly recovering from my wisdom tooth extraction and infection. Yesterday I managed to make a skirt, which ought to be a sign that I am on my way to full recovery. But it is going slowly and I still ned a tramadol to be able to sleep, which makes me drowsy durign the day. The infection in the mouth also triggered my joints, so I have more pain there than for a while.

This is Rickard's work weekend ( he works every otehr weekend) so Maja and I spend most of the time alone. Or, normally we do. Yesterday was her eight birthday, so after Rickard was home from work (he "only" works 8 1/2 hours on Saturdays) we had the neighbours over and Vendela and Valeria brought their little half sister on their father's side and we all had ice-cream cake. My mum and her boyfriend and my sister and her family were here on Friday.

Today Maja and I are going to take the bus to Toys'r'us and spend some of her birthday money. If I'm lucky she will let me take the bus to a fabric store called "Stoff & Stil" also, though it is a bit tricky to get there by bus.


On wednesday we're going to the biggest SCA event in Sweden, maybe even in Drachenwald: Double Wars, which is a nine day camping event. It has been around for 25 years, but for some reason I have never attended. it's me, Valeria and Maja and we're going down by train. Then on Friday afternoon Rickard will drive down  after he's stopped working and we'll have the weekend together there. I know that it will be fun, but right now I'm mostly stressed about it.

Om Monday I extracted a wisdom tooth from the lower yaw. It was lying down instead of the normal standing up so quite a lot of bone had to be taken away and it had to be broken into pieces before they could pick them out. I also managed to get an infection so I'm quite miserable. I got anitbiotics on Wednesday afternoonn so I hope that it will get better soon-ish.

Today I will be working my ass of  and then I'll go to a course on being a parent (or other close relation) to a person with Asperger's. If I'm lucky I will be home a whole our before we have to go to bed.

I took some photos to give to the woman who made the hat today.



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I liked how the red dress turned out som much that I decided to make a yellow version. The colour was chosen beacuse I now have three pairs of yellow summer shoes that don't seem to go with anything I have. The fact that I had a white ribbon with yellow flowers of the Asteraceae genus helped too. Then I got plastic buttons that looks like chrysantemums and the cheerfulness was completed.



I'm not totally happy with the photo, but its's okay. It looks like a housedress and that's what I mainly plan to use it as.

All I had decided before I went to see Ida and order the hat was that it should be grey and that it should have  feather going in arc over the head. And here it is: a 1940s hat with a very silly feather.




( Photos of the hat )

I'm going to go and pick up my new hat that I ordered from Tegelsten Clothes a few weeks ago. It's a 1940s style pillbox hat and it will be awesome!