Encampment

Firepit

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…

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Cuisine

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

SCA

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

Kampfrau (Trossfrau)

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.

Dress of the Court of Saxony

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…

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Dress of the Court of Saxony

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…

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Encampment

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/

Cuisine

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,…

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