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Historic clothing and jewelry that I wear or want to wear

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Patagonia is making pattens!

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Sort of.  Their new two-part shoes remind me of soft turnshoes and wooden pattens, which I want very much to try wearing for practical reasons.  Check it out (pic via TreeHugger). So those leather boots or slippers slide out of the rubber outsoles.  There’s a tab at the back that keeps the heel in place.  Go look at the TreeHugger entry for more explanation. What tickles me besides the ‘everything old is new again’ aspect, is that leaving one’s shoes at the door is one of the ‘green building’ line items on the Florida Green Building Coalition checklist.  (Actually, it’s … Continue reading Patagonia is making pattens!

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Book Review – Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years

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Ann recommended this book to me when I first expressed an interest not only in spinning, but in the technology of cultures, and in learning how to do things from the ‘ground up’.  I got it just in time for Gulf Wars, and started reading it aloud to Gabrielle on the way there.  That was March. I’ve just finished Women’s Work last week, and it’s fantastic.  I’m actually glad that it’s taken me so long to get through it, because it’s just chock full of fabulous information, each little bit that just shifted my worldview.  Rather like the archaeological finds … Continue reading Book Review – Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years

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RUM 2007

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(I swear this was a coincidence.  Me, Kyle, and Lavena, after court.) RUM was fun and interesting.  I liked the site very much, because the Lake Lanier area is surprisingly cool, and very beautiful, and it’s very nice to take a dip in the swimming pool after the end of classes. Particularly when you’ve spent an hour swinging a longsword dummy over your head in the sun. (I’m very sorry I don’t have a picture.  I would’ve loved to see what I looked like.  I need a photographer.) I took classes in Italian hair braiding, silk embroidery, Meyer’s rapier & … Continue reading RUM 2007

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Green Kirtle

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After sleeping on the kirtle problem, I got up yesterday and cut into my green linen. I’m rather disappointed in the linen – it seems to have been ‘cottonized’, because the threads I pull from it won’t do for sewing.  They break in about two inches.  So I had to use standard cotton/poly sewing thread.  That does mean the sewing goes faster. It also goes faster when you let yourself use a sewing machine for basting. I don’t regret it.  Here’s what I had at the end of the day. That’s a back bodice, folks, with a center back seam, … Continue reading Green Kirtle

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Pumpkin Dress

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My friend Lavena (newest Companion of the Velvet Owl – huzzah!), just finished her Pumpkin Dress in time for Kingdom A&S.  (She swears there’s a list of these dresses named after vegetables – I told her to let me know when she gets to Asparagus.)  It’s actually a copy of a dress in a Lorenzo Lotto painting. Doesn’t she look wonderful!!  Here it is full length: She says she has 70 hours in the dress.  I believe it.  I frequently put at least that many hours into my projects – but I don’t keep track of them.  Learning to Weave … Continue reading Pumpkin Dress

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GW:Leatherwork workshop

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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

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GW: Shopping!

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Merchant’s Row, with only a few people shopping. I’m a little embarrassed about how much shopping I did.  But hey, I’m a newbie, and I NEED stuff, right?  And since I’m also a polymath (new word, mom! there’s a bunch of us in the SCA!) I need lots of different kinds of stuff to help all the things I do.  So here’s the result of the pillaging (of my bank account!). Heavy-duty, wide-brimmed felt hat in light color, with crown big enough for my big head plus my very thick braids wound around it.  Yes, mom, it is the LARGEST … Continue reading GW: Shopping!