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Trestle Table

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I’ve always liked trestle tables.  I like how you can see how they work, and I like that they can be demountable and the parts moved elsewhere when you need MORE FLOOR.  Or outside, I have grand ideas of having people over to eat in the garden. Here’s the kind I like best, with a shaped leg upright, though not the ornate stretcher, and preferably even more painted than this.  Like Swedish Style.Doesn’t it look like you could just knock that apart, set the top against a wall, hang the legs and stretcher up, at the end of a work … Continue reading Trestle Table

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Meridies Regalia

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For anyone else who is frustrated by the lack of Geocities bandwidth assigned to the Meridies Bagatelle Pursuivant page (I find I can only click on a few links before the whole section rolls over and plays dead), here are the various regalia, organized by construction type. (I did this for my own sanity; do double-check any instructions with the official site linked above to maintain authenticity.) Fiber construction (I favor applique/embroidery over painting, but…): Download ArgentLancePennons.pdf – Black trigger fabric Download ArgentLily.pdf – Embroidered lily on black token sash Download CompanionateoftheBard.pdf – Painted design on black token sash Download … Continue reading Meridies Regalia

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Update

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I’ve been really busy – but I don’t have any good new pictures to show for it. I’ve done more flax spinning. I’ve done more tabby linsey-woolsey weaving with Midnight’s alpaca.  The first piece is nearly ready to come off the loom.  I’m really curious to see how it stands up to washing – if the alpaca ‘woolsey’ warp blooms within the linen warp, as I’ve heard can happen with loosely woven fabrics. I’ve done a bunch of knitting – one French Market bag is in the wash, felting, and the other just needs handles.  (The purpose of these is … Continue reading Update

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Heritage Museum – Saturday in the Park

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UPDATE: We were in a local newspaper!  The very readable (only comes out weekly, so they must have time to weed out all the dumb stuff that the daily runs) Bay Beacon featured the following: (click to enlarge) Yes, that’s me with my mouth open.  Standard expression for a magpie, don’t you know? ****end update*** One of our little cities’ Heritage Museum has a craft fair fundraiser every year in the adjacent park.  The local shire was told that we could appear for free, and we might sell our own fundraiser crafts.  So here we are on April 28, 2007. … Continue reading Heritage Museum – Saturday in the Park

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Green Shawl

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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

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Fundraiser Craft Ideas

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These are the ideas I first listed with the beaded bookmarks.  I would like to explore all of these, to see which are the easiest for us to do, but also which sell best.  Please keep thinking of new ideas, as some of these will probably turn out to be Time Sinks. Beaded bookmarks – 12 DONE. Felt helms     Embroidered games – Nine Men’s Morris, Fox and Geese     Flower wreaths     Placemats with culinary images + recipes, suitable for framing – we discussed this idea in lieu of a cookbook, since cookbooks are SO much … Continue reading Fundraiser Craft Ideas

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Wheel update

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It works!  It works! I’d overthunk the driveband, and used a leather thong, which turned out to be too much friction.  Substituting a piece of string makes the wheel functional.  I have Franklin Habit and his blog, the Panopticon, to thank for this reminder of Engineering Rule No. 1: Use the least possible object that will carry the force.  EG: If you only need tensile strength, use a skinny wire.  If you need tensile strength+friction, as in my wheel scenario, use a mid-sized piece of cotton yarn.  Don’t jump ahead to preconceived ideas of what "ought" to be used – … Continue reading Wheel update

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Embroidered Herbal

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(You really must click this one – it’s huge.) This is the result of a kit that my mother started before I was born.  I finished it last month. I want to make it into a gear bag – since I find myself shlepping an awful lot of gear to Fighter Practice, A&S meetings, and so forth.  But in the meantime it’s inspired a new banner here, and an ID card for me to give out to people.  The card image looks nice on the glossy perforated cards I use for Front Step Design. Continue reading Embroidered Herbal