Agreed, that seems like a good purpose in life! And those jokes were both very funny :)
I'm glad to hear you are at peace with things as well. And it is very nice of you to think so much of your family and how your situation affects them. Even if that is probably very hard at times... If you ever need someone to talk who is not so directly involved and can just listen to your struggles from a distance, don't hesitate to shoot me a pm. I personally find internet friends great for talking to family struggles about, since in contrast to real life friends, they don't know the other people involved and won't need to face them after learning some unpleasant things about them.
jacob, if I was GRRM, I'd just try to completely ignore all the feedback on the show and focus on the story I was going to tell before they derailed it ;) Mostly since a lot of the negative feedback might just be a matter of how they executed certain story arcs, not that they would necessarily have to be bad if done right.
And now, onto my fabric news:
I got two fabrics, one is a sturdy dark brown wool that I will make legwear for my boyfriend from - as in, two separate legs that are attached to the undergarments with some strings. Somehow not having to do the crotch and waistband makes pants quite simple :D
I already did a mock-up one from an old bedsheet which I will use as the pattern now. I wanted to start sewing this today, but unfortunately the fabric dried in a weird shape after prewashing it, since our drying rack was too small to really put it on in a flat manner. We put it on a bigger clothes line outside that is (at least we believe / hope so) common to the house where it can hang flat and sprayed it with a bit of water again in the hopes that it will straighten out a bit. Otherwise it will be a bit tricky to place the pattern on it, since it has some places where it just has some big bumps when laid flat on the floor. If you guys have any tips how to deal with that, I'm all ears!
The second one is a lovely grey-green linen fabric which is woven with a bit of a pattern:
I'm not sure how well you can see it in the picture, but it is made from light green threads in one direction and light grey ones in the other, giving it an interesting shine and an almost olive-gold vibe from afar. I just fell in love with it when I saw it :)
I'm planning to make a medieval overdress of some sort from it, but I'm not completely certain what kind. I was originally thinking of doing something similar to the red version in this picture:
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But apparently the lacing on the sides isn't really historically accurate for this kind of dress. Also, I'd want an underdress with some nice and large sleeves instead of what the lady in the picture wears. No idea how accurate that would be, but you guys have seen my love for sleeves :D
So I'm kind of torn between just going with what I see in my head and ignoring if that might ever have been worn in history and doing some research and finding a historically accurate style that I like (and that my fabric is large enough for - I have 1.5 x 2.5 meters).
If you guys have any knowledge of medieval dressing or good sources for where to find some more info/inspiration for it, please tell me!