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— City Limits by Samantha Guerin – Classic Elite Yarns MountainTop Crestone “5144 Gray” – US 6/4.0 mm – https://www.samanthaguerindesign.com/city-limits
— Dried marigolds from the garden for dyeing
— Black Mask for Adulting Purposes
— Machine Knit Cotton Shirt – Silver Reed LK 150 Mid-Gauge machine – Sheepjes Catona 100% Cotton 517, 189, 208, 412, 164, 521, 157, KnitPicks Comfy Fingering 75% Pima Cotton 25% Acrylic Black
— Dyeing with 2 year old Madder roots from my garden. Also, some samples were supplemented with commercially available Madder roots for a deeper shade.
— Salazar Slytherin 990 AD – first round of dye samples for weaving the over tunic
— 18th Century Shirt Wearable Mock Up – cut silk noil fabric into smaller pieces for future dyeing
— Halloween Rice Fields – Rice Fields by Elzbieta Torenc. US 3 – 3.25 mm. Legacy Fiber Artz “Winnie Sanderson,” “Mary Sanderson,” “Spellbook.” Berroco Ultra Alpaca Light “Black.”
— Swatching for future sweater on Brother KH836e using leftover yarn from the Halloween Rice Fields.
— Quilt – quilting final borders, basting trim lines, trimming squares, cutting sashing, and assembling the quilted pieces with sashing.
— New bookcover for sketchbook/costume project book. This was made using some lightweight cardboard and a lovely sample of wool fabric given to me by my friend Marce @heybrownberry on YT and IG
— Cozy Memories Blanket – Memory Blanket by Georgie Nicolson. US 1 – 2.25 mm. Fingering weight scrap yarns. New squares are marked by progress keepers.
— Star Wars Xmas Sweater – Star Wars Sweater by kNatalieKnits. Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Sport Weight “Hollyberry” & “Dove Heather.”
— Salazar Slytherin 990 AD – hand sewing the shirt. Shirt draft using tutorial video by Morgan Donner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK4wwQlML8I
— Ashford Kiwi 2 spinning wheel – Loop Fiber Studios Bullseye Bump Merino/Angelina/Nylon “Heartfelt.”
— Leather case for sharp embroidery scissors
— Little pumpkin shaped wax for waxing thread added to my Halloween Hussif
— Snow day right before Halloween~~
— Casual!Winter Soldier Halloween Costume
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Transcript:
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Hello and welcome to
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my craft room. I am Adrian and I use
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masculine pronouns.
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anyone who is new here,
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this is my whiteboard that I use to keep
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track of
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what I’m trying to do. It is the
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beginning of October, so
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I’m gonna clear this board of the things
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that I completed in September
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and I’m going to set the goals for this
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month. At the end of the month, and at the
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end of the video,
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I will check back in with you and we’ll
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see what I’ve
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actually accomplished over the course of
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this month. So,
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let’s go to the board. In this first
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column here, up here
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in red, are my knitting deadlines.
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I am nearly finished with my City Limits
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sweater, which is the sweater that I had
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assigned for
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Rhinebeck, the New York Sheep and Wool
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Festival. This year that’s happening
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virtually, but I’d still like to get it
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done.
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And my other deadline is a Star Wars
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Christmas sweater
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that has been on my list for ages.
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I’m actually going to rewrite these.
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The red is pretty difficult to see on
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camera, but also
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my eyes go right past it
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here in physical reality with the board.
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My goals have not changed for my Salazar
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Slytherin costume.
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I still need to do the dye samples. I
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still need to finish the shirt.
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I need to start sewing the braies.
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They’re gonna stay as they are.
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For my little dye section here, I can
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take off lichen dyeing.
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I did that last month,
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but marigolds are gonna stay on there, at
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least until I
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know what my marigold harvest is for
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this season.
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I’m hoping that I’ll have enough
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marigolds to dye
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five 100 gram fingering weight skeins of
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yarn for a
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mustardy yellow sweater in the future.
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And the jelly roll rug is going to stay
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as it is
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until I start working on it again. So
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this column is set.
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My very crooked To Do column
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needs some work, so let’s
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rewrite what I need to do for quilting.
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I need to quilt the second blue border,
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trim the squares,
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cut the sashing, assemble,
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and then bind the quilt. This quilt is
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being made in
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nine different quilted sections that
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will be
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joined together with sashing at the end.
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So we’re going to keep the black vest
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mock-up on the board
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and we’re going to take off the pumpkin
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pin cushions
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because I completed those in September.
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And I’m going to clean up the machine
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knit cotton shirt by removing
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the back piece and the shirt [*Sleeve] piece, which
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have already been completed.
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I’m also going to add assemble under the
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machine knit cotton shirt because
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that’s a feasible goal for the month of
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October. If I do finish the
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sleeve and the front piece of that shirt,
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I’m also changing my last item from
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masks to black mask. I only really have
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the black mask to complete for myself.
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There’s nothing super special about it. I
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just need
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a mask for adulting and I want to try
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a couple of tweaks with it that I didn’t
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do on previous masks that I’ve made.
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Those are my goals for the month of
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October. My to-do list is likely to
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change or have things added over the
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course of the month.
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As I said before, at the end of the month
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we will go over this board again
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and see what I’ve managed to accomplish.
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That’s going to be it for now.
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I’ll see you at the end of the video.
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[Music: Mountain Walk by Alexander Nakarada]
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[The composer describes this as a “drum-kit heavy fantasy piece.”]
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[The music features typical medieval fantasy score instruments, with a classic beat drum beat]
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[Music]
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Uh, hello it is Tuesday.
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I don’t know the date, but it’s Tuesday.
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Um and I just wanted to document this
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really quick.
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I obviously have no footage of this
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event, but you may have seen footage of
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Gabby bringing Aeron
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and Audrey over, her two corgis, to play
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with
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little Miss Penny. Well that afternoon
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around
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2 or 3 o’clock, I think,
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there was a bear in the yard
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while Gabby and I and the three dogs
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were also
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in the yard. We were standing
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over here
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and the bear came out of those bushes
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and walked in front of that tree
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up towards the back there. Now I’ve-
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I’ve lived in black bear country my
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whole life.
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You get the safety talk when you’re five
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in kindergarten about what to do if
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there’s
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a bear and
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I’ve luckily never, until a couple of
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days ago,
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was physically in the presence of a bear
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without a fence between us.
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I usually see them from inside of
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buildings or
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inside of a moving car.
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And this was a fully grown bear. This
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wasn’t an adolescent bear.
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This was fully grown bear. So uh, yeah. You
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might not see footage from outside in
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our yard
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for a while,
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just because I’m going to be vigilant
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about potential bears.
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[Music]
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Oh, a bee!
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Hang on, my friend. I don’t know if you were
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able to see in that last clip that I
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just showed, but this little guy
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uh was hiding under one of those
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marigolds when I
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picked it today. So I found him a nice
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leaf to recover from the shock of
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being harvested.
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[Music]
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Got another bee.
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[Music]
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[dramatic angry boat tones]
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It’s surprisingly warm in here, considering
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that there is snow outside
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and this room is the most sporadically
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heated because it was once upon a time
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a garage. Welcome to
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the end of October’s video.
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I’m standing this far back because we’ve
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got a morning
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sun situation here that
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normally I wouldn’t care about, but
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I’m wearing
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all black and therefore it is very
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visible when I get
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blind lines on me, so just-
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I don’t know. Happy Halloween everybody.
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This is casual!Winter Soldier. It is
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casual because I’m wearing
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jeans and knee-high Halloween socks,
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which you
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can’t see in this video. Before I get to
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the board, I’m just gonna do a quick
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rundown of this costume
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because costuming is one of the things
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that we do here. I originally made this
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costume back when Captain America: Winter
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Soldier came out. This
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is a black button-down shirt that I got
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at the thrift store for a couple of
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bucks.
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I chopped off one sleeve about an inch
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away from the seam
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and then I tucked up that
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seam allowance on the inside and tacked
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it down so that
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this has that nice clean shoulder seam.
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The arm is a silver, oh
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It’s part of a long sleeve leotard.
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I cut off the bottom of it so it’s kind
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of
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cropped underneath here and I cut off
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the other sleeve so I wouldn’t have to
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worry about anything
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on this side. The arm
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design- I should also take off the glove.
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See? This is just a long sleeve.
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The arm design I took off of
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several screenshots and some costuming
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help
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forums. I used to have a pdf of the
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pattern, but I don’t anymore. I basically
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cut out paper pieces of the plates
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and then painted between the plates. This
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is done using fabric paint.
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You can see close up it’s not the best
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job, but there is a silver paint with a
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black paint
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on top for all of these lines. And then
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the star obviously was just a star
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pattern that I did
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in red. This red, I don’t know if you can
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tell, is a little bit sparkly,
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so it’s not the best red, but this was
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one of those costumes that I made for
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the workplace costume contest.
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So I wasn’t going full cosplay
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stuff. But if you do want to have an
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interim arm
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before doing a plate arm, this is a way
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to do it that is,
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you know, visibly obviously Winter
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Soldier.
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This is just a cheap knit glove
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that the fingers were cut off. I had it
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from a previous
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workplace costume. The hand
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is a glove. It used to be
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an elbow-length costume
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glove and then obviously
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glove over to hide that where that meets
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at the wrist.
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Then the bottom of this costume was very
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simple when I originally wore
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it. There were black pants
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and combat boots, but today they’re
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old ratty black jeans rolled up to the
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knee with
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stripy Halloween socks. Let’s head over
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to the board and see
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how I did for October. Rhinebeck sweater,
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City Limits. Done. Cross it off.
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You’ll have seen footage of it in this
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video or you’ve seen it on Instagram.
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Huzzah. Next thing in the knitting
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deadlines is the
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Christmas sweater, so we will talk more
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about that in To Do because it is a
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current
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thing. Down to Salazar Slytherin
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990 AD. Very exciting, we’ve got
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two things crossed off and an addition
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because I can never just finish a thing.
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So dye samples. I have finally done
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my first set of dye samples. Obviously,
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you can see that I’ve written in
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samples 2. We’re pretty close in the
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blue to yellow ratio in some of these,
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but they do need to be darker to go with
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the linen cotton
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yarn that I’m using for the weft. As you
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can see here, I have
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half skeins ready to dye
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some samples with. I learned some
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valuable things while working on these
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mini skein samples.
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Namely, that if I’m splitting the dye
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powder,
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the mini skeins are too small to get
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those ratios right.
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You can read my notes on this over at my
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digital dye book
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on my website. To sum it up in a sentence,
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I use a ratio of
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one percent dye powder weight
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to the weight of the dry sekin. So, if i
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have a 100 gram
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skein, the total dye powder
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to be mixed in is one gram.
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But if you’re using a 15 gram skein, a 20
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gram skein?
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That’s a very small number and I don’t
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think my scale was accurately reading
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my dye powder weight. So bigger sample
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skeins next time,
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but I’ve done the initial samples and
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for me, getting started is often
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the hardest part. You can see I’ve also
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crossed
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off the shirt, which i didn’t
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bring down with me. Hang on.
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This is the top
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underwear layer, we’ll call it, of Salazar
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Slytherin 990 AD.
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This is a hemp fabric that I had in my
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stash.
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It’s a very simple rectangular
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construction, which is typical of the
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period.
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I used the tutorial that Morgan Donner
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did
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for her medieval shift. I’ll link it
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somewhere.
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One thing that I did differently from
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other examples
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is I did split the
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forearm and add ties. These
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are five loop finger braid
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ties out of a crochet cotton yarn.
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I don’t recall the size. I’ve lost all
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the labels for those,
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but it’s fairly typical of what you’ll
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find in the crochet cotton
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section of your big box craft store.
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These are split at the sides because, as
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you can see here,
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I almost never wear my sleeves down.
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I can usually handle it for a couple of
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hours,
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but then I overheat and I have to roll
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my sleeves up. Ways to roll up my sleeves
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are being built into this costume.
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I’m most likely to be wearing parts of
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it at the Renaissance Faires
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during the summer, so rolling up sleeves
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is
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a necessity for me personally.
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This was all hand sewn using waxed linen
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thread.
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The only part of it that I think could
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be improved
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is the neckline. I did cut the neckline
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too
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wide, so it doesn’t fit the way it’s
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supposed to.
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But I’m glad that I did it on this under
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layer as opposed to the
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over tunic where it’s more important to
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get that
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proper medieval collar fit.
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This means my current hand sewing
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project is now the braies for this
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costume,
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which are basically
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medieval undershorts. It’s made out of
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the same
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hemp fabric. These are a little bit more
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pieced out of scraps since I needed the
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bigger pieces
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for the fronts and backs of the shirt.
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Also I’m kind of fitting that garment as
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I assemble it,
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so things might get weird with the
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construction
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because it’s just not a garment that a
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lot of people
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have done resources about. I am doing the
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construction method for the braies where
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there are
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two large rectangles that go around the
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legs and one
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skinny rectangle that
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is like the crotch gusset? I don’t really
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know how to explain that.
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I’ll be able to explain it better when i
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have the physical thing
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mostly constructed and I can show you
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the pieces.
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Down in the dye column I did do my
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madder dyeing using two-year-old madder
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from my garden. I have been growing
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madder
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in pots out in the garden. There was one
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plant that was not in a pot. It was in an
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old tire,
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but I figured two years is probably deep
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enough growth that I can still
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dig out all the roots without it
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spreading off into the countryside.
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So I dug up that one plant and did a dye
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experiment with it. And you can see I’ve
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added another item
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madder (silk). I have
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cut out most of the pieces to an
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18th century men’s shirt according to
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Bernadette Banner’s sketch on her pirate
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shirt 18th century shirt video.
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I intend to make one out of
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linen as a proper shirt,
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but I have three yards of this raw silk
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noil fabric. Noil? Noil?
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Spelled n-o-i-l that I wanted to turn into
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a garment. I figured I could make a
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wearable mock-up of that shirt using
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this silk. You can see it’s a
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schlubby silk texture
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and it’s a fabric that behaves similarly
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to a cotton.
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So I’m going to dye this red with madder-
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commercially bought madder- because I can
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measure the amounts
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easily that way and I’m going to make
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wearable mock-up
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of that 18th century men’s shirt, but I
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have to dye the pieces because my pot is
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not big enough to dye
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three yards of fabric.
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So I’ve cut the two body pieces, the
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sleeve pieces,
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and just a big piece for all the collars
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and cuffs,
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little reinforcement squares, all those
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extra bits that I’m going to dye
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with madder. Marigolds are still
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obviously on the
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dye list, as I’m still drying and
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processing
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this year’s harvest. Over to
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the main To Do column. I have made
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substantial progress
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on the quilt, which is good because I
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want to get it done.
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I have finished quilting all of the
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quilting bits.
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I have trimmed the squares. I have cut
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the sashings. I am now in the assembly
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stage.
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When you assemble quilts like this, you
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go on horizontal rows first
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so that these vertical strips are added
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and then you attach each
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horizontal row to the next one because
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the trickiest part about making this
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look right- it doesn’t matter how crooked
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your horizontal sashes are connecting
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the two rows together,
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but if your vertical lines don’t match
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up it looks off.
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That’s what I’ve learned doing this
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quilt where the
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sashing lines are very obvious. They’re
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in a contrasting color.
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That probably won’t be as much of an
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issue on this quilt because it’s the
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same
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blue fabric as the
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blue borders. So I’ve got a little bit of
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wiggle room there.
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I obviously have not gotten to the black
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vest mock-up.
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We knew that was likely to be the case
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because I’m focused on the quilt.
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I did finish the machine knit cotton
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shirt.
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You will have seen video footage of this
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during the video.
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You can see from earlier that I did
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finish my black
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adulting mask and I have started
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knitting the pieces
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of the Christmas Star Wars sweater.
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This sweater is being knit in two
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different methods I’m knitting the
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stockinette body pieces on my
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LK 150 knitting machine and I’m doing
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the color work
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at the yke by hand. I’ve done the two
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biggest body pieces, which super
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excitingly look like
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big red rectangles. This yarn
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is Knit Picks Wool of the Andes.
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This is the contrast for the color work,
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“dove heather” and the red is
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“hollyberry.” I may need to order a couple
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more skeins of this,
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but we’re playing it by ear right now. I
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have
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one sleeve sitting on the machine now.
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Once I have the second sleeve
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done, I will block the pieces to get them
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to relax a bit
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and then do the hand knitting of the
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color work. You’ll also have noticed on
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those rectangles, I didn’t do
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any of the ribbing at the bottom of the
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sweater. I’m going to do the ribbing
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later
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because I don’t want to order more yarn
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if I don’t have to.
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I do have a green –
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I think it’s “forest heather?” – left over
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from
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my Slytherin Scarf that I did by machine.
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There’s a point in the color work where
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if I run
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out of the red yarn, I’m fine.
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The color work motif- the bottom half is
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mostly red and then the top half is
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mostly that gray.
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And if at that dividing line, I run out
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of red yarn,
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I can just do the top half with
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green and I can also do the ribbing
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in green. It’s a Christmas sweater.
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Nothing from the future column is moving
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over to
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the To Do column, although
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when I add the 18th century shirt to
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that To Do column,
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that will be a wearable mock-up
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for this future item
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my good friend 177Sith.
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I will talk about this in the future at
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some point when I am actively
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designing and working on this project.
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So that’s going to do it for this video.
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I do not have any extra announcements
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that I
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know of. I’ve posted two additional
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videos in the month of October, so if you
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have not seen them,
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there’s a Halloween Hussif video where I
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hand sew a hussif
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~in an eerie and Halloweeny way~. And
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I posted an audio short story, The Pale
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Man by Julius Long.
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It’s a public domain short story
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originally published
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in Weird Tales back in 1934 and it’s
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~a little spoopy~, but not like
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horrifying. But I had a lot of fun making
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it, so if you want to check that out it’s
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only
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16 minutes long including the
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end credits bit. It’s soundscaped
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and occasionally has music, so go check
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that out if you want to.
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Also if you want to follow along with
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these things that I’m doing,
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consider hitting that subscribe button
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down below
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or you can go check out my website at
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freakishlemon.com.
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The things that I’m involved with are
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usually linked
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there somehow. That’s
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gonna do it for me. Goodbye.
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[Music]
Freakish Lemon 