A bit of self-esteem boosting

[eveglass]

Okay, so maybe it takes me a month to sew a simple apron-dress that doesn't even fit very well, maybe my attempts at fabric dyeing wind up with candy-colored chemises that I'm halfway embarrassed to wear, maybe I screwed up a friggin' frozen pizza tonight by forgetting to take the cardboard backing off...

...but damn it, I wrote a 216-line poem based on an actual period story, in actual period meter, in less than five hours. That's gotta be worth something, right?

(For the curious, it's a fun story from the Golden Legend featuring St. Basil, written in enjambed rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter, the same meter I used for my poem about St. Christopher.)

Comments

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

I will have a sewing machine with me...

congrats on the poem though. Skills reside where they do.

[eveglass.livejournal.com]

Thanks, John! I may usurp you and your sewing machine one day at War, if you don't mind. I really, really need some more braes.

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

I should be able to whip some out... Would you like me to bring some cheap fabric? Do you have preferred colors?

I have some medium weight silk that you might like... $1.99 a yard finds that would feel amazing. Of course you might have to beat away the people who want to pet you...

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

And if you do not mind red.... I have this linen/rayon blend that you might also like.

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

Actually mail me the following measurements and I might be able to rip out a pair or two before pennsic....

Waist to floor (side)
Hips at widest point.
Waist
Center Crotch to waist Front
Center Crotch to waist back
Waist to Crotch. (Clamp a yardstick between your thighs parallel to the floor and measure a straight drop to it from your waist.)
Thigh at widest point
Calf muscle flexed

Drawstring waist?
Pockets? (Very non period)

[arathreel.livejournal.com]

If by braes you mean... like... long underwear that are lightweight, I'm having trouble with that myself. I would love to be shown how to make them! All I seem to know is dresses and coats. I was about to give up and just buy boxers.

[arathreel.livejournal.com]

We all have different things we are good at. Don't look atmy life and think I am that amazing for whatever I do. You are fabulous at being a bard and I am heartily jealous that you can do all you do (and memorize it!).

[eveglass.livejournal.com]

As John says, skills reside where they do. You *are* amazing at what you do, and don't let no one take that away. (See? That's me trying to write in slang before I'm properly caffeinated. I don't think it worked too well. *grin*)

[ulfhirtha.livejournal.com]

It is worth a very great deal.

Remember the exchange in EXCALIBER between Arthur & Merlin:
Merlin: You knew how to draw the sword from the stone.
Arthur: That was easy.
Merlin: Was it? I couldn't have done it.

So it is with writing a 216-line poem based on an actual period story, in actual period meter, in less than five hours.

[eveglass.livejournal.com]

That was pretty much my point, yup.