New video live today! I made a Viking-style outfit for the kiddo (I’m going to have to start calling her Tornado now, since she’s big enough to roll her eyes when I call her Poppet) and filmed… almost enough of it to make a coherent video. I hope this is a decent debut video (I’m […]
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I made another vlog! This one is properly SCA-related, about The War of The Rams, a relatively local war event between my kingdom and the neighboring one. For everyone who was more interested in tutorial videos, project diaries, and period look-books, don’t worry; those are still coming. I started with vlogs because they’ve been relatively
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I know it’s been SO LONG since I posted anything here. First, there was so much life that happened: elevation, and then a divorce, and then movingout, making a different relationship work, finding a job and figuring out how to be a single parent and still have enough time left to create enough to not
I haven’t been posting a lot here lately. Things have been very busy, what with the elevation and all. And not just mine, Master Alden had his not too long ago too, which involved a little bit of effort on my part to make his scroll. /silly I have a post I want to make
When I went to Gulf War this year (or as they’re calling it now: Gulfnado), I lost my needle book somewhere on the drive. I was terribly upset, considering it held all my reproduction clothing pins, and needles, as well as the brass pins I use for hand sewing. When I got home, I replaced
This past weekend was Kingdom Arts and Sciences. Ansteorra has a yearly (although the did do an extra one this year; I’m not sure if that will be the norm, or if they’ll scrap the idea of twice-yearly) competition to determine the premiere artisan of the kingdom. In addition, the top ten scoring entries (with
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Not exactly SCA related, but sort of tangentially appropriate. My friend Cecilie works at Sherwood Forest Faire here in Austin, and she commissioned me to make her a 12th century bliaut with pendant sleeves, like this one that Racaire made. She bought a lovely blue linen in herringbone twill, and instead of taking time away
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So remember that pretty embroidered collar I had all planned out yesterday? Well…. It’s had some setbacks. Master Alden and I had decided on blue lines for this lovely design. And seeing how much fun I’d had with pearl cotton on the Cantigas pouches, I thought I’d use it again. I had some beautiful robin’s
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I started another project today, a quick viking collar for a tunic with a damaged neckline. The inside of the tunic will be patched, and the outside will be hidden by this collar. It will be embroidered in blue DMC cotton for washability, and the tunic is forest green linen. I’ll add some matching blue
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In my last post, I talked about what I had done during 2015. In this one, I want to take a moment and detail some of the things I’m working on for 2016. Both in an effort to be accountable for them, and also to psyche myself up to be super excited about them. For
