From: fearnley@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Fearnley Anne)
Subject: Re: 1993 projects: Mine and Yours
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:03:17 GMT

>In article <C0BB6L.D6x@world.std.com> nancy@world.std.com (Nancy C Reynolds) writes:
>>If there are other folks out there who work on something, then put it
>>aside and work on something else, sometimes not getting back to the first
>>(or even second or third) item, I suggest we offer each other
>>encouragement to keep plugging away.  Meanwhile, I think it would be fun
>>to have an overview of people's projects and new year's resolutions relative
>>to our newsgoup. 

Projects:
Plain-jour (drapes?) for the living room.
    The cost of the material for this was my Christmas present from my parents
    in 1991.  I now have all that I need (including how to do it) so this is my
    main non-portable project now.

A checkered pleated skirt.
A blue everyday skirt (a-line, elastic waist)
    My mother cleaned out her cupboards and gave us children what she didn't
    want.  But I promised myself to sew no clothes until the plain-jour are
    up, so this may take a while.

A nice winter dress
    I have the pattern but not the material yet, but see note above.

A nice summer dress
    Ditto (same pattern)

Some repair work including my husband's pant pockets which keep on getting
holes (don't ask me why).


A grey knitted vest
    I have the yarn and the pattern and I am starting tonight during Deep Space
    Nine.

The ultimate fall sweater
    This is something that I have been dreaming about for a while.  More a coat
    than a sweater really, buttoned or zippered in front, lined, knitted tightly
    so that it is very thick, with a big dragon curve in the back and two 
    smaller ones in front (a dragon curve is a fractal (math is the subject 
    here) obtained by folding a strip of paper repeatedly always the same way
    then unfolding it so that all the creases are right angles).  I am thinking
    of working with two thicknesses of wool all the way through; maybe grey and 
    black with blue and grey dragons, or green and beige with brown and beige
    dragons, something like that.  This will almost certainly not get done in
    1993 but it will be thought about quite a lot.

More Fentex slippers
    As soon as there is a sale.

A 'ceinture flechee'
    I think this is a purely Quebec thing.  I want to prove to myself that I can
    do it (they say that the art of making them is dying out so this is my way
    of keeping it alive).
    BTW  It is a hand woven wide belt in very thin wool.  The patterns are all
    points, hence fle`che'e  (like an arrow).  It was worn by men in winter, 
    twice around the waist and tied to the side with the edges dangling down.


My first tatted doily
    I am on my last row and it looks really nice.  Tatting is increadibly 
    portable, I do it on the Metro (no fear of dropping needles or anything)

A border for those nice towels we got for Christmas
    Another craft for in the Metro.



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Anne Fearnley                                     Dept de math. et de stat.
fearnley@ere.umontreal.ca                         Universite de Montreal
                                                  Montreal, QC