Fleece Helms
HAVE:Purchased fabric. NEXT STEPS:Enlarge pattern to head size.Make one up. Develop crown pattern.Make one up. Continue reading Fleece Helms
Category: Clothing and Equipment
A place to document my kit – things I’ve made or found
Laundry and Towels That Dry
(thanks to the lovely and wonderful Lord Eoin for today’s inspiration) Here are some lovely re-enactors playing with laundry. (we are so nuts. who else would do laundry by hand, probably scrupulously taking notes somewhere behind that gorgeous washtub, and call it "play"? Go see the rest of KirrilyRobert’s pics.) Do you think those shifts that are being worn are cotton? The green dress looks like linen – I find it very funny how I’m learning to tell at a GLANCE which is what. I’ve been looking forward to hanging my laundry outside again – the machines are in the … Continue reading Laundry and Towels That Dry
UWF Festival on the Green, with pictures
Me showing Mary (Melbrigda’s daughter) how carding paddles align fibers. My basic setup. See, if I pinned visuals around the backflap and across that open left side, that would provide more definition and color. Also a pennant at the top of the front pole. More of the scene. That’s Lavena and Saxa on my left, with the glass bead demo. You can see Ming in his armor mid-picture. I do a lot of laughing, apparently. Here’s Melbrigda in Viking Apron, chatting with a greyhound owner, while apparently I laugh some more in the background. It was a good day. Continue reading UWF Festival on the Green, with pictures
Sunshade!
Remember how I was copying a sunshade from Gulf Wars? Here it is! This was the test run in my driveway on Friday afternoon. Despite the breeze, I still got it up All By Myself.I did this by laying out the corner poles in an X, then laying the canvas on top, which told me where the stakes should go. So I pounded in all the stakes, which are the cheap modern type that have a prong and an upper nub. (That part is important later.) Then I pulled up each post halfway, and tied it off using a sailors’ … Continue reading Sunshade!
GW:Leatherwork workshop
I went into the leather workshop intending to answer questions about how best to go about the stopwatch case that Daan wants made for his new analog watch, and I did that (use neoprene, come up with some clear plastic band across the front, and then cover it with leather if you want) but I came out with this, that I made under the guidance of Baroness Etheldred Nic Eoghainn – she’s called Dredda. Isn’t that lovely? I’m going to sew it on my do-bag that I made out of my embroidered herbal. But of course I could use many … Continue reading GW:Leatherwork workshop
Green Shawl
I made this shawl originally as a learning tool for my local yarn store, Unwind. It’s an adaptation of Jennie Atkinson’s Butterfly dress pattern, published in both Rowan #37 and Romantic Knits. I loved the yarn patterns, but not the idea of making a dress – my figure can wear it, but my lifestyle can’t. So now it’s a shawl. Here’s what I changed. Yarn: Jojoland Melody, 100% wool sock yarn, not quite four ballsNeedles: 24" long #8 circularGauge: Doesn’t matterTechniques used: In bold.General construction:Step 1 – Use a waste yarn of similar gauge to cast on 14 stitches, knit … Continue reading Green Shawl
Knitted Tabard
The pic of the knitted tabard that I sent to Larian for inclusion in my entry on the Phoenix Glade site. Continue reading Knitted Tabard
WOOL!
The French Russian wool blankets arrived yesterday. They are destined to become a cloak. They are in the washing machine, getting the funny mothball smell out, and hopefully getting the last of their felting over with. I have three of them, and they are very heavy and wonderfully warm. I bet they’re even heavier wet. I got a chance to try out wool’s ability to resist rain today, in my favorite sweater, which did rather well in a downpour. Hmm – I may be okay after all with this plan. Update: After laundering, they are nicely drapey, but not exactly … Continue reading WOOL!
Laces for lacing and ties
As recently posted on the Phoenix Glade Yahoo!Group… Greet was using her foot for finger loop braiding. Not sure why she was using her foot but she was. Somewhere there’s a picture of me doing this. Until then, imagine me parked on a sofa, with my foot propped on a chair in front of me. I’ve got the knot end of the braid tucked into my shoe strap, and long loops hooked on each of my fingers. In order to keep the strands in proper tension, I ended up doing a kind of abdominal crunch on every thread braided. The … Continue reading Laces for lacing and ties
Chaperon Pattern
UPDATE (8/10/09): I'm leaving this up, but grudgingly. Knitted objects show up in the fourteenth century, but mostly in Knitting Madonnas, and I haven't seen evidence to support a knitted chaperone yet. So I'd have to come down on the side of PERIOD-ISH for this guy. And since I've discovered I'm not into 14thc any more, it's out of persona for me. But hey, it's an intermediate design, and it works to stay warm, and a kid would probably enjoy it. (This is my own pattern for a knitted hooded mantle, or chaperon, as seen below, and guessed at from … Continue reading Chaperon Pattern