One a.m.

2 May 2008

Finished.  One o’clock in the morning, upstairs in the booth at faire.  I finally sewed on the final of 33 buttons.  Four hours of sleep in the previous 48 hours (one of those hours stolen Friday morning at about 11 a.m. when I caught myself asleep for the third time, with the needle in my hand while hand-sewing the codpiece!) meant that I was mighty tired by the time we got to faire and got the truck all unloaded.  We did what unpacking we could and I headed upstairs to sew.  Mary visited with me for a while, and then after she wisely decided to go get some sleep, Kyle soon showed up and he sat with me while I finished the final dozen or so buttons.  I snapped this photo, and crawled in bed at 1:05 a.m.

The day went fairly smoothly.  No glitches or serious bumps in the road to completing Joe’s outfit.  I did pull yet one more all-nighter, but, I was mentally prepared for that, and it allowed for the perfect amount of time!  I even got a couple of alterations done for folks that weren’t necessarily expecting them this week!

I am pleased with Joe’s ensemble.  I had time to make his breeches (we just added that to his order on Wednesday night!) and attach the codpiece.  I even made time to add some sparkle to the under-doublet—six little black faceted rim sets, and five blue cabochon buttons with rhinestones, really added that extra bit of “oomph” that I wanted him to have. 

~MB