Old Firepit Purchased from DragonWing Pavilions I want a new firepit… calling it a firepit is misleading… I want a mobile cooking station that could accomodate a 30-50 person feast without need of a feast kitchen (or something that can compliment a feast kitchen). For some reason cooking at event is one of the things that really excites me about…
Author: nibuca
Food and table manners
http://www.wealddown.co.uk/Magazine/Spring%202003/magazine-spring-2003-article-manners-makyth-man.htm Good article about Tudor(?) manners
Viking Leg Wraps
http://www.miklagard.nvg.org.au/articles/legwraps1.htm
Fishing Weirs
Primative British fishweirs http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/cbaresrep/pdf/074/07411001.pdf Basket weir http://www.le.ac.uk/ulas/annualreports/ar99-00/hemington/hemington.html Fish weirs on the Tâf, Towy and Gwendraeth estuaries, Carmarthenshire. http://web.onetel.net.uk/~rapanui/Fish_weirs/fish_weirs.htm
At 12th night this last weekend I scored ~9 yards of light grey wool. It’s destined for the Kampfrau dress. I’m psyched to start on it.
Woot! Lower sleeves went together very quickly. These have straight “hedgehogs”** unlike the upper sleeves where the top “hedgehogs” followed the curve of the armcye. All said I think it took 2-3 hours to do both sleeves and to re-do the gold part that goes over my hands. I just need to hand-finish the flat-felled seam and tidy up the…
It’s not going as quickly now that there’s not an immediate looming deadline.. but it is going. The bodice it now completely attached to the skirt. The part across the front where there is no bodice is attached to a piece of wool and then attached to the bottom of the white placket. I’m still toying with the idea of…
Peri-oid looking cooler
Paper mache over a cooler to get a cooler cooler (that looks like a leather trunck). http://kelly.dwarfworks.com/sca/cooler/
Siege Cooking Competition at A&S Trouney July 2006
Here was the layout and rules for the Siege Cooking Competition at the A&S Tourney on July 21-23.
Market Basket Challenge
You’re given a basket of food, to make dinner for yourself and 5 other people, including the religious leader in your community. (If your community doesn’t have a religious leader, you can substitute the mayor or some other important person.) You get: 1/2 chicken, 1 cup lentils, 2 carrots, 2 turnips, 1 leek, 3 Strawberries, 1 bunch herbs (your choice,…