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,…
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
My first stab: Rolf, relentless victor, triumph realized on the field, wreathed in laurel leaves, calls forward love. Aurora of shy smile stunned by victory to silence wears rose wreath with pride. Royalty of the West. Three words from a cup: laurel, smile, forward. My first ever Anglo Saxon (ala Beowulf) poem. I don’t like the second half line.. “triumph…
On Sunday Ysabella had Mari come and teach a class on German’s. Nice class. Lots of pictures. Mostly confimations of things I’d come to understand. The class gave me time to finish with attaching the gold trim. It’s all nice and flat. On Monday night I ironed and then attached a 100% cotton gingam strip to the top of my…
Vertically Striped German Gowns 1500s
Starting a collection of vertically striped german gowns. Annoyed at the poor quality of the pictures. Amused at the idea of a documentable vertically striped skirt.
Last night I trimmed about 1.5″-1.75″ off the bottom of the bodice all around and then finished that edge. Since I’m going to be attaching cartridge pleats I needed a finished edge. The plan for tonight is to re-attach the gold trim along the front edges of the bodice and to finish all the hand stitching on the trim on…
I started the weekend with a finished dress and finished the weekend with a couple of bags of pieces of dress. It’s like a deconstructed german dress 🙂 I tried the dress on and both Edith and Sefa agreed that the bodice needed to be shortened about 2 inches all the way around. I took the dress off and then…
Greed
We’re talking a deep Id type “me want” response. Sigh. Lack of money sucks. Me still want though. Kiln http://www.artglass1.com/glass-bead-kiln-cal.htm Table & benches in a box – Pic: http://scademo.com/images.demo/Picture50.jpg – Plans: http://www.smoke-fire.com/camp-furniture-patterns-1.asp Bronze Cauldron http://www.thadenarmory.com/sell/cookware/cookware.htm