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GFD – Fitted sleeve

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I’ve been plugging away on my Bathhouse Keeper Shift, which is acting as a toile for the bodice part of my Gothic Fitted Dress.  It’s going well.  However, because my instructor, the La Cotte Simple site, which does such a great step-by-step job of explaining how to fit the bodice, somehow doesn’t talk about how to generate the sleeve cap and armseye, I’ve been scared of the GFD’s sleeve.  (The shift doesn’t have a sleeve.) Tory set me onto this site, which helps to draft a pattern.  I made this up in my sloper fabric, and tried it on.  I … Continue reading GFD – Fitted sleeve

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Luttrell Apron

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(garb garb garb garb – I’m starting to bore myself, except I like garb garb garb garb) Ta da!  A Luttrell Apron.  I’m going to enter this in Magna Faire (along with the Smocked Shirt). MATERIALS The threads are linen threads, either singles drawn from the fabric (for basic construction) or 16/2 100% linen thread sold as ‘Rainbow Linen’ in color R464 (for smocking stitches) The fabric is natural unbleached linen (IL014, from fabrics-store.com) 5.9 oz/yd, 59" wide. TOOLS I used modern cotton/polyester thread to gather the smocking pleats.  These threads were withdrawn and discarded. I used two sizes of … Continue reading Luttrell Apron

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Smocked linen apron

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Here we have the beginnings of my smocked apron, a la Luttrell Psalter. I’m using heavy natural colored linen, cut to 28" wide.  Why? Because I’m following the conventional wisdom (cringe) that household looms  in the 14th century were fairly narrow, ~30". (Anybody got a citation for this one?  Ann?) I question that ALL looms in the 14th c were narrow.  Or that some fabrics produced on narrowish looms were not double-woven to be twice as wide.  But I am yielding to the CW on this one out of expediency, and because the illustration in Luttrell seems to be a … Continue reading Smocked linen apron

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Beginner’s semicircular mantle

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I seem to be in a moon of ‘work smart, not hard.’  How odd for me. I’m worried about freezing in the wind at Gatalop.  I have started the Treble Fib Shawl in order to address cold weather, but there’s no way I’m going to finish by Friday, and I don’t want to rush.  So I remembered that I’d discussed making a semicircular mantle to go with the 1350 Gothic Fitted Dress, per Lyonet’s suggestion, and decided to see what I could find. Fortunately, Joann puts fabric on sale for Halloween, and I came home with 3.5 yards of 59" … Continue reading Beginner’s semicircular mantle

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Thursday’s Child

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Monday’s child is fair of face;Tuesday’s child is full of grace;Wednesday’s child is full of woe;Thursday’s child has far to go;Friday’s child is loving and giving.Saturday’s child works hard for a living.But the child that is born on the Sabbath Day,Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay. I had that rhyme in a Mother Goose book as a girl, and I was born on a Thursday.  (Everyone out there is now shouting ‘OF COURSE YOU WERE!!’) For example: Since I have this new lovely loom, and I finished Debbie Redding Chandler’s recommended beginner sampler, and I went to weaver’s … Continue reading Thursday’s Child

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Wanted: Rumpelstiltskin

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Though I’m fresh out of first-born.  S’pose he’d take a cat? Seriously, I’m trying to spin up all my loose fiber, so I have yarn for weaving/knitting/dyeing.  I’ve got 1.5 pounds of linen strick, and you see here about 0.25 pounds spun, which has taken at least five 2-hour sessions.  For comparison, I was filling this bobbin with worsted Alpaca completely in about 2 hours in April.  I’m trying to learn how to spin more finely, and the exchange is you get more time out of your money’s worth of fiber.  Hmm. I’ve also been building up my needle callouses. … Continue reading Wanted: Rumpelstiltskin

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Stained Glass Window Sheetwalls

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Lavena got me into this.  "I can get cheap king-sized sheets…we should make murals for Daggers & Hemlock to decorate the hall!  I’ll buy twelve!" I was thinking: murals require skilled labor and planning.  Our shire has maybe two people who could do this, and I’m one of them.  I don’t have enough artistic energy left at the end of the day to do TWELVE murals.  But maybe stained glass windows…because someone else has already planned them, and coloring within black lines, anyone can do that… At that point the filter between my brain and my mouth gave in, and … Continue reading Stained Glass Window Sheetwalls

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Trunk Project

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I don’t think I’ve blogged about my Trunk Views yet, but after lots of thinking and some experimentation, the Views are turning into a Project, so it’s time. Views: Peasants and lesser nobles should be able to live out of a trunk, right?  Houses were small, people might have been very mobile.  Certainly we in the SCA are very mobile.  And She With Few Things is likely to be rewarded with a lower gasoline bill, particularly when she lives Back of Beyond.  (8 hours to Kingdom A&S, 7 hours to RUM.) So I thought about using a trunk to move … Continue reading Trunk Project

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The A&S 50 Challenge

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Found on Tavern Yard… The Society for Creative Anachronism celebrates its 50th year on May 1, 2015, and that will be cause for much celebration.  I am starting early, and I hereby invite you to join the party! Challenges have long been a part of Scadian culture, and I thought that a challenge of 50 things seemed appropriate for our 50th year.  Since years in the SCA are counted as Anno Societatis, (year of the Society,) or AS, and Arts and Sciences (the lovely canopy under which so many of my interests rest) is oft abbreviated A&S, the A&S 50 … Continue reading The A&S 50 Challenge

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A&S summary, second quarter 2007

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Researched natural dyesStarted reconstruction of kirtle from Durer’s "Portrait of a Young Furleger with Her Hair Up"Researched anti-fungal medicationsComposed heraldic device for submittalDetermined name for submittalResearched period woodworking devicesConstructed a Germanic Hemd: linen, handsewn, with linen thread, smocked.Experimented with spinning flax into linenAttended Kingdom A&S: took class on storytelling, and taught wool spinningConstructed a leather watchcover with deer leather and sinewConstructed a Scottish Saffron Shirt: linen, handsewn, with linen thread pulled from the fabric,pieced and embroidered according to period descriptionFound sources for looking at digital facsimilies of rare period booksResearched and discussed period dancesParticipated in public demos: demonstrated carding wool, … Continue reading A&S summary, second quarter 2007