We got one step closer today to a full Fiddler cast by auditioning our final group for the lead roles of Tevye and Golde. Golde is pretty much cast, but Tevye's still up in the air and we need to see a few more boys audition tomorrow. We also want to audition some of the final Teyves and Goldes singing together. We -almost- have a cast. Dancing auditions will be next, but that's not my department :).
Went to "The Nimble Thimble" needlework shop in north Toronto after school today. Hadn't been there in a few years, though I love cross-stitch stores. I've recently gotten involved in a quilt project through an on-line Tolkien community and I needed to find some specialty fabric for the new square I'm starting. The women involved in the project are cross-stitching 64 squares to quilt together to display and raffle at "The Gathering of The Fellowship", a large Tolkien convention happening in Toronto at the end of 2003. The raffle money will go towards a literary charity. All the cross-stitch is due by the end of 2002 so the quilters still have a year to put together the quilt. It's a truly international project in that the square I'm presently stitching was designed in the States, patterned in Switzerland, is now being stitched in Canada and will be sent elsewhere (I forget where) to be quilted before being returned to Toronto to be displayed and raffled. I love being involved in projects like this where I know the end results will be the work of artists, patterners, stitchers and quilters from around the world. I can't wait to see the completed quilt in December 2003.
My present square will represent a Tolkien role-playing community called "The Lucky Fortune Inn" and features the inn's mascot, a dragon harp named Agarak. Cool to be stitching something musical as well as Tolkienesque. I've never really been a gamer (though I plan to do a whole journal entry on some strange developments on that front recently), but I have become fond of The Lucky Fortune Inn since I was assigned to stitch their quilt square and I frequently read that thread now, though I'm still too intimidated to participate.
My photo today shows a picture of the first square I've stitched for the quilt.
For those heading off to OVFF, have fun, party hard and bring back great stories!
Went to "The Nimble Thimble" needlework shop in north Toronto after school today. Hadn't been there in a few years, though I love cross-stitch stores. I've recently gotten involved in a quilt project through an on-line Tolkien community and I needed to find some specialty fabric for the new square I'm starting. The women involved in the project are cross-stitching 64 squares to quilt together to display and raffle at "The Gathering of The Fellowship", a large Tolkien convention happening in Toronto at the end of 2003. The raffle money will go towards a literary charity. All the cross-stitch is due by the end of 2002 so the quilters still have a year to put together the quilt. It's a truly international project in that the square I'm presently stitching was designed in the States, patterned in Switzerland, is now being stitched in Canada and will be sent elsewhere (I forget where) to be quilted before being returned to Toronto to be displayed and raffled. I love being involved in projects like this where I know the end results will be the work of artists, patterners, stitchers and quilters from around the world. I can't wait to see the completed quilt in December 2003.
My present square will represent a Tolkien role-playing community called "The Lucky Fortune Inn" and features the inn's mascot, a dragon harp named Agarak. Cool to be stitching something musical as well as Tolkienesque. I've never really been a gamer (though I plan to do a whole journal entry on some strange developments on that front recently), but I have become fond of The Lucky Fortune Inn since I was assigned to stitch their quilt square and I frequently read that thread now, though I'm still too intimidated to participate.
My photo today shows a picture of the first square I've stitched for the quilt.
For those heading off to OVFF, have fun, party hard and bring back great stories!