A Ymir 2026 I setup a display of my progress in knitting. I (of course) neglected to get any pictures of the display. The display image is from KASF 2026. I included the following items: Scholar’s hat Display document about Scholar’s Hat.In 2018 my mother taught me to knit. We both knit a scholar’s hat using Wicked Woolens/Sally Pointer’s pattern…
Tent Stitch Tent stitch was a popular and easy to work embroidery stitch used extensively for creating richly decorated furnishings during the Elizabethan period in England. There were two main techniques for using tent stitch: This stitch can be worked in several directions. It creates a strong, hardwearing surface, both on the front of the work and on the back.…
Blood (Beet) Red linen waisted kirtle started 4/12/2022. Never going to be finished. Mama needs a new kirtle. It turns out stressing and sheltering in place for two years ran riot with my diet. So now all my old clothes don’t fit (except for my really really old clothes.. which I don’t want to wear).. so new clothes it is.…
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, VSolis AB 3.123Marketenderin und Troßbube (Sutler and horseman) 1534-1562 Zoomable Image: http://kk.haum-bs.de/?id=v-solis-ab3-0123 What I see:The German word “marketender” translates to sutler and the -in suffix denotes a female. A sutler is a person who follows an army and sells provisions to the soldiers. “Tross” means baggage train and bube translates as either boy or jack. I…
White linen hemd for Erik started 2/7/2024. Finished 2/24/2024. Details: – white linen hemd(shirt) – slightly-longer-than-hip length – narrowed at shoulders to bring seam to just below point of shoulder – open neckline (no collar) big enough to pull over head – slits on the side, (possibly center back and center front). – slightly tapered sleeves with small gussets –…
Resized Viborg shirt pattern work started on September 4, 2022. Sewing started on September 20, 2022. Initially finished on October 6, 2022. Neck hole re-done and finished again on November 29, 2022. Details: – light weight linen – Pattern based on the Viborg shirt – sized to fit an adult modern man – completely hand-sewn For literally years I’ve been…
(I actually finished this in May 2019 but realized that I’d never hit publish on the blog post). After my first thrummed cap I decided I wanted something a bit different. The first cap did not have a brim. It was also thrummed during the knitting (fiddly) and I felt that at 6″ the thrums were too long. Lastly after…
Myth: In the SCA, only knights are allowed to wear unladen chains. Fact: This is true. (Oh! Did you see all of those feathers ruffle?)According to SCA laws and precedents circular chains of all colors (that is, any color of chain made with open links that does not have a clasp and that does not have a medallion/charm) are reserved…
Myth: “If you can’t sew you should wear early period because it’s easy” Fact: It’s all hard when you’re starting out. Even the early period stuff. Gussets and gores are not easy and there are people who have a lot of experience sewing fitted garments who later struggle to understand how to sew early period garments. Everybody has to start…
Myth: The SCA is devoted to the research and re-creation of pre-seventeenth century cultures. Fact: This is the shining standard. This is what we say we want to be. For many reasons we’re falling short of this. It’s only in the last few years that the SCA mission statement was grudgingly updated to remove the reference to “Western European” cultures…