Pirates and Lunch...

So, Saturday I spent about 3 hours just looking at fabric for pirate costumes, for the Privateer Feast. I'm allright -- I have a shirt, a stayed bodice, and leather pants to wear. tricksterquinn is going to go in boy-drag, and friend 'A' is going as a deckhand.

We found some fairly good denim for A, subtley striped black-on-black, to make him pants and some green-and-black herringbone upholstery fabric to make a vest. tricksterquinn found some lovely red velvet for her own vest, and some good broadcloth to make a shirt. And since we were a G-Street, we found buttons, buttons, and more buttons.

Hopefully, we'll get the costumes done in the next week or two, so that we aren't pinning our costumes together the day of.

Sunday I went down to Takoma -- I got there early, so I wound up buying *lots* of apples at the farmer's market -- to have lunch at Savory Cafe with sanj and ellen_fremedon, where we looked at twistedchick's art. Afterwards, I went down to Stitch DC and bought some hemp yarn to make necklaces out of, silk yarn from Alchemy to make a lace-and-cabled scarf, and Noro Kureyon to make a scarf and a felted bag out of. I really wanted Noro Aurora, to make more leaf-lace scarves, but no one local seems to carry it.

A busy weekend, and now I need to catch up on sleep before this coming weekend. I'm scheduled to demonstrating spinning at Bethesda Library on Saturday, and hope to celebrate my birthday sometime. Or sleep. Something like that...