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
Portable House
A merchant tent from Pennsic http://www.pennsic.net/grifden.html I can’t imagine “building” a house at every event… but it’s impressive.
Sunshade
When SCA camping, trees are a luxury. Usually we don’t end up with any in our camping allotment. That and since we covet Eric space, trees are hard to come by. That means we either have to suffer in the sun (no fun at all) or make our own shade. Option two is the option of choice. There’s not a…
Feast Ingredients
Getting Herb in Berkeley: http://www.herb-inc.com/ Squab (young pigeon) and Poussin (young or spring chicken) http://www.squab.com