It’s New Years Day which means it’s time look back on the projects I’ve finished and the goals I set for myself over the last year and start planning out the ones I want to work on this year.
2010 Goals:
1) Continue to work on my physical fitness and fighting.
2) Only have one embroidery project at a time. Until it’s finished this means my jacket.
3) Do more sewing.
4) Learn to play 2 pieces of music appropriate to Elizabethan England by Pennsic.
5) Spend more time with my students.
6) Continue to post Silver and Swetnam installments weekly.
I had a lot of false starts with my first goal of working on my physical fitness and fencing. I would stay focused for a few weeks and then drop off. I was really disappointed with myself in this. These were really important goals for me and I let myself set them on the back burner over and over again.
I did OK with goals two and three. I couldn’t maintain working on a sewing project and an embroidery project at the same time but I did enjoy more sewing projects this year and kept myself focused on the one embroidery project (my jacket) even if I didn’t get as far on it as I would have liked to.
I wrote about goal four recently already.
I did enjoy spending more time with my students both on and off the field this year and I’m looking forward to even more next year.
I did not continue with my Silver and Swetnam series mostly because I’ve decided to change those projects slightly. Instead of working on them in a series I’ve decided I want to publish them all at once.
2010 Planned Projects
Get my fencing in top notch shape In progress
Embroidered Jacket In progress (Started August 2009)
Flander’s Gown In progress
Silver Training Blog Series In progress
Swetnam Training Blog Series In progress
Steampunk Gown Finished! January 2010
Wrapped and Stuffed Buttons @ Etsy Opened! January 2010
Grey Wool Bias Cut Hosen Finished! February 2010
Linen Kirtle Finished! April 2010
White Linen Bias Cut Stockings Finished! April 2010
16th-17th Century Stocking Tutorial Finished! April 2010
Blue Linen Bias Cut Hosen Finished! May 2010
14th Century Hosen Tutorial Finished! May 2010
Saviolo Dueling Blog Series Finished! June 2010
Early Modern English Dueling Class Finished! June 2010
Green Linen GFG Finished! September 2010
Burgundy Linen Effigy Bodies Finished! October 2010
Recreating Elizabethan Bodies Tutorial Finished! October 2010
Monochrome Embroidery Tutorial Finished! December 2010
French-Cut gown
A new linen suit
Natural Form Gown
2011 Goals
1) Continue to improve fitness and fencing
2) Have one sewing project a month
3) Publish a new ebook every 1-2 months
4) Be able to play 1 Elizabethan popular song by December
In December I rededicated myself for improving my fitness and I’m pleased to say that I was able to stay pretty straight and mostly narrow even through the Holidays. I have also begun outlining my plan for working on my fencing one already and I plan on discussing them in more detail when their more firm. My first fitness and fencing goals revolve around Gulf Wars and I will be discussing them in future posts. My other goals are all pretty self explanatory. In order to keep myself on track and focused I’ve decided to keep my total number of goals this year lower than last and I will be posting monthly updates.
2011 Planned Projects
Get my fencing in top notch shape In progress
Embroidered Jacket In progress (Started August 2009)
Flander’s Gown In progress
Silver Training Manual In progress
Swetnam Training Manual In progress
14th Century Cloth Hosen ebook
New Rapier Armor
Shirt, Brais, Hosen
Charles de Blois Pourpoint
Edwardian Lingerie Gown
Arming Garments Class
The first non-fencing related projects I will be working on are the 14th Century Cloth Hosen ebook and finishing my Flanders Gown.
