1. Sort though fabric stash and identify fabric you don't love.
2. Stare wistfully at the fabric you've identified and reassure yourself that no, really, I don't like that color I should get rid of it.
3. Commit to selling the fabric. Take pictures, measure the pieces.
4. Panic at the idea of selling off fabric that has aged in your stash, some of it for over 10 years. If you sell it then you won't have it and what if you think of a project for it?
5. Stuff the fabric back into the stash and pretend you never contemplated selling it.
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What are you favorite (and least favorite) SCA myths?
Myth: Award recommendations are hard to do.
Fact: They don't have to be.
Background: Despite myths to the contrary, Royalty are just people. The don't know everyone or everything. They are not all knowing nor all seeing. You, Their populace, can help Them to bestow awards and acknowledgement onto worthy individuals but they can only do that if you tell them who is worthy and what they did to deserve that acknowledgement.
My recommendations: Start with the following outline:
- Who you're recommending
- What award you're recommending them for (if you know)
- What this person did that makes you believe they deserve this award.
- What event you expect they will next attend
- Who you are, your relationship to the person you're recommending and your contact information (if applicable)
You can use flowery speech or not as pleases yourself.
eg.
Your Majesties,
I am writing you today to recommend {SCA and/or Mundane name of person} for an Award of Arms. This gentle has been very active in our local group for the last two years and has helped create largess for Your Majesties coffers. This gentle is a member of my household, Hart & Hound. This gentle will next be attending Your Purgatorio Coronation.
Yours in Service,
Mistress Sylvie la chardonnière
sylvie@westkingdom.org
In the West this can be submitted here:
heralds.westkingdom.org/Awards/forms/AwardRecommend.php
In fact, the WK award recommendation page takes you thorough all of the above steps in individual form fields.
I am certain this type of page/link is available for every kingdom.
Go forth and bring worthies to the attention of all royals!
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My thought process. (IE: Why am I FORCED to buy more fabric even though I have a decent amount of fabric in my stash?)
I want to make another kirtle to try out {this new method} and compare it to {the last method I did on the blue dress}. Cool, okay but I don't want another kirtle in the same color, I can totally choose a different color. I really would like to do it in a gold/yellow color.
Muck around in fabric stash and find several hanks of gold linen.
Autumn Gold: This one is the perfect color but I don't have enough of it.
Random muted yellow: This one is a boring yellow (why do I even keep that in my stash if I never want to make anything out of it? Ah well, stuff it back in the stash).
Light yellow: This one is a decent color but it's the wrong fabric weight. Ohhh but I bet this would be perfect for my Roman matron outfit (add light yellow to a different stack of fabric) (spend 20 minutes figuring out what other light-colored coordinating linens I have for the Matron outfit)
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