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So, I spent the weekend thusly -- Saturday: waiting in vain for prospective roommates to come look at my apartment, sewing costume pants together; Sunday: cutting costume pieces, shopping for feast gear, trundling down in 12 degree F weather to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
twistedchick's home to repair my sheepskin coat; Monday: demonstrating card weaving at Strathmore Music Hall -- not too shabby, but I'm left feeling really exhausted compared to the amount of stuff I got done.
The good news is that everyone who demonstrated at the Strathmore has also being invited to contribute to a show in July at the Strathmore Mansion. That's *5* months to make stuff that could actually be *sold*. I'm delighted, or will be once I come up with projects that A) I can get done in that time, B) are sufficiently unusual that people would be willing to *buy* them, and C) are not part of a copyrighted pattern so that I can *sell* them without infringing on someone else's copyright.
I think I need to get out my Orenburg lace book, my stitch dictionaries, and my Debbie New book. They all deal with *techniques*, not patterns, so I should be okay there. It's just a matter of coming up with a pattern that works well. I've already got a half-completed moebius scarf that I could enter, as it's *completely* my own design.
And I need to get my loom out into the living room and get those cotolin towels on it finished. If I can thread a Lee's Surrender overshot onto the loom, I can weave a shawl that would definitely attract attention. I'd have to finally spin that blue-faced leicester fleece, as well.
If I can draft some unique loom-controlled shibori patterns, I could also sell those. The trick is drafting a pattern. I need to either do a *lot* of work on graph paper, or buying a drafting program...
twistedchick's home to repair my sheepskin coat; Monday: demonstrating card weaving at Strathmore Music Hall -- not too shabby, but I'm left feeling really exhausted compared to the amount of stuff I got done.The good news is that everyone who demonstrated at the Strathmore has also being invited to contribute to a show in July at the Strathmore Mansion. That's *5* months to make stuff that could actually be *sold*. I'm delighted, or will be once I come up with projects that A) I can get done in that time, B) are sufficiently unusual that people would be willing to *buy* them, and C) are not part of a copyrighted pattern so that I can *sell* them without infringing on someone else's copyright.
I think I need to get out my Orenburg lace book, my stitch dictionaries, and my Debbie New book. They all deal with *techniques*, not patterns, so I should be okay there. It's just a matter of coming up with a pattern that works well. I've already got a half-completed moebius scarf that I could enter, as it's *completely* my own design.
And I need to get my loom out into the living room and get those cotolin towels on it finished. If I can thread a Lee's Surrender overshot onto the loom, I can weave a shawl that would definitely attract attention. I'd have to finally spin that blue-faced leicester fleece, as well.
If I can draft some unique loom-controlled shibori patterns, I could also sell those. The trick is drafting a pattern. I need to either do a *lot* of work on graph paper, or buying a drafting program...