Knowne World Costuming Symposium

I'm gonna make this short because its nearly midnight, I just finished my homework for tonight and I'm really tired. I need to get up at 6 am to do more homework.
KWCS was great! I had fun. People took pictures of my socks during The Walk Through History (which is always fun to be in). Yep. My socks. Couldn't be my handstitched dressed, had to be the bright pink and purple mottled socks I bought from The BasketMan this summer. If you're wondering, I don't knit. I can do all this great, neat wonderful other stuff, but I don't knit. I have enough other things to fall behind on, like blackwork.
Speaking of which, I taught two classes on it and had a good turnout in each. I had more people on Sunday than on Saturday in part because there were some cancellations on Sunday. On Saturday I sold out of the embroidery kits I had available. There were drastic changes made from Saturday to Sunday, and the class went much better. I hope the people had more fun in it on Sunday than Saturday because of those changes.
Some of my recently completed projects are:
A new Tudor corset
Italian work dress, with sleeves
11 hair pins, 8 to be donated to the gift baskets
a number of beeswax cakes for embroidery
helped a person draft a doublet and pants pattern for a rapier outfit
put the cuffs on my new rapier gloves

That's about all.

Metal Work Weekend

I mostly did enameling, since that is what I normally do not get to do. I did get in some forge time, but I wanted to give others a chance since I can do that once a week if I want. I did get to see how TJ makes his hair pins so I can make my own if I want. Most importanty, I can make them even longer for hats if I want.
I enameled my own Cygnus, and made two more to donate to the Northshield Crown. I could do that more often, except that I don't know if the building's electrical system could handle a kiln, and I don't really have the space. I would have to put it in a room where I can shut the door. One of my cats likes to get into everything I am doing. He especially likes to play with thread, while I'm trying to embroider with it. This is what they look like, except the other two only had one hole in the copper disc.
I hope to get alot of A&S stuff done this weekend. I want to get at least half of what I have on this list done:
1. Finish pulling threads from linen for an Italian embroidered band and get it ready to embroider
2. Make beeswax cakes for embroidery classes coming up soon.
3. Put the embroidery kits together for the classes.
4. Finish shortening the stays in my corset.
5. Finish the last Italian sleeve and get the rings sewn on.
6. Put cuffs and trim my new rapier gloves.
7. Complete one thing from the repair/work in progress bin.
8. Go see the Borat movie!!! (I know I will do this).