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GW 2009 Populace Badge Embroidery Project

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I am helping HRM Gwendolen create embroidered tokens for Gulf Wars 2009.  This is a fairly large project and given the time constraints and the volume involved, I'm soliciting machine embroiderers' help.  I've posted eleven embroidery machine files, in various formats, for public download at my blog here:  http://szarka.typepad.com/sca/2009/02/downloads-for-machine-embroidery-meridies-populace-badge.html  If you're interested in helping, please email me, so I can keep track of how I'm doing recruiting, and include a mailing address so I can get black fabric to you. Thank you so much in advance.  ~Greet ——————UPDATE: Feb 17————– The tokens are to be sized approx. 4" x 24", … Continue reading GW 2009 Populace Badge Embroidery Project

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Downloads for machine embroidery – Meridies Populace Badge

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Various helpful people are interested in file downloads for the Meridian Populace Badge. PLEASE NOTE:  I don't have an embroidery machine, nor do I have the software necessary to create these files.  I am, however, coordinating an effort to produce a WHOLE LOT of embroidered tokens with the Meridian Populace Badge…they will be white thread on black fabric, like this: If you are interested in doing a bunch of these for the Crown's use at Gulf Wars, PLEASE EMAIL ME. I got a pal (who does have the fancy machine and the fancy software) to create a bunch of standard … Continue reading Downloads for machine embroidery – Meridies Populace Badge

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Results of Midwinter A&S for Coptic Embellishment entry

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[This entry is feeling hard to write, because the project did really well, and good things happened to me, and I don't know how to say it without the results seeming like I am blowing my own horn.  But I want to share with you all, so suffice to say that I feel really really validated and humbled.  At the same time.  Which is pretty awesome, from my side of the line.]

Onward.

As promised, here's the PDF of my documentation. Download Coptic Embellishment-A Simple Method for Picky and Patient Re-enactors2
I didn't take a picture of the setup (stupid!), but I'll reassemble it and blog it soon.

I got really great encouragement, comments, suggestions, and prodding as to "where to take this next."  Even better, I find I've still got enough interest in the topic to keep going in those directions, some of which are Very Ambitious.  So this isn't the end of Coptic tapestry weaving…not by a long shot.

I also got a terrific score: 19/20.

And I won my level, which was Beginner.  I felt odd registering as Beginner, since I know I'm very different from most beginners, but the criteria is "have you been awarded a Meridian Cross?"  Since that answer was a fact, and a "no", then it was out of my hands.

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Posts about documentation

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I've been finishing up the documentation and display for my first Arts & Science entry, to be shown this weekend at Midwinter A&S.  For the non-SCAdians, think Science Fair, but for medieval crafty types.  I'm having a blast. Per usual, the gory blow-by-blow appears on my LJ blog, and I got a couple of questions that I thought might be universal enough to address here, and keep a category about.  So I introduce "Documentation" to the increasingly long category list at right, and the preceding two posts are about that.  There may be more. It occurs to me that not … Continue reading Posts about documentation

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Keeping track of source material

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How do I keep track of books and other references?  In digital lists, which contain items that look something like this: 1.  ITEM CITATION (as appearing in a standard bib, whatever format I feel like, probably an amalgamation of APA and was it ALA we did in high school?) Who owns it -  Me?  Which library did I borrow it from?  Who can I get it from?  Have I seen it, or just heard about it?  From whom, and are they important/superknowledgable? What the book is generally good for; my own description.  (Now I'm ready to assemble an Annotated Bibliography, which if I ever encounter one … Continue reading Keeping track of source material

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Extended answer about an extended bibliography…

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(excerpted from a worry thread on my LJ in 2008, before presenting my first A&S entry at Midwinter A&S) I like to produce a 'works I actually used for this project' list and a 'other sources you may find useful to follow me' list, because people who are new to the field may need to read more widely to catch up to the context I'm in.  The latter is what I mean by 'extended bibliography'. Funny thing happened at Menhir – somebody asked me to repeat the two-hour class that Gwen, Maudey, Una and I had just presented on the development … Continue reading Extended answer about an extended bibliography…

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Trim done!

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(I don't know why that last post showed up twice.  Perhaps the exhibit is That Good.) (cheap pen for scale) So here's the other piece of tabletweaving I'm doing for HH Gwen's robes.  I like this stuff, even though it's INCREDIBLY SLOW when compared to other ways to embellish clothing.  And the silk is very fine, and now I understand why Maudey was interested in using No. 5 Japan thread rather than No. 7 – getting the thicker metal strand to bend precisely where you want it to is a bit tough. Thus the silver blips in the back not … Continue reading Trim done!