Posts Tagged ‘SCA’
Remember the award medallions that I was embroidering on and displayed at Pennsic? I finally got around to starting to make them into actual medallions last night.
I was taught how to make award medallions aeons ago, one evening sitting around in the barn with a bunch of people at Great Northeastern War. I actually [...]
I’m on the “reserve list” to teach my hosen class at C3R on the 28th… if you’re interested, even if I don’t end up stepping into a slot, find me and I’ll be happy to let you have a handout!
I finished up Liadain’s underdress last night during textile guild. Hooray!
Here’s a sampling of what the finished seams look like. The shoulder seams were on the selvedge, so I didn’t bother to fell them, I just laid them flat and stitched them down.
I ALWAYS seem to mess up when I fell the [...]
I’m making a set of 13th century gowns for HRH Liadain and took today (while watching the inauguration) to do the bulk of the construction on the underdress. It’s all together now… I’m a little concerned about the fit of the sleeves, but we’ll know for sure how they’re fitting on Thursday.
The whole thing, inside [...]
Go here for a first draft of the hosen handout. I’d appreciate feedback on it – I’ll be using it for a class at Have Fun Storming the Castle in a couple of weeks.
I gave up. I CAN sew with the threads gleaned from the fabric, but I was getting too frustrated with them breaking, and I could only sew at about 1/3 my normal speed. Since I’m kind of on a deadline for this gown (yeah, I know, the deadline is six months away, but I have [...]
I keep mentioning the award medallions I’m working on, so I went ahead and scanned the two that are done. For the non-AEthelmeartians, that’s a Keystone (AoA-level service) and a Millrind (Grant-level service). The Millstone is the one that was getting all the attention at the Pennsic A&S display; the spirally background was kind of [...]
BRT was yesterday… it wasn’t as hot as it was last year, thank goodness, and we were all entertained. I got to do some A&S demo-ing and remembered as I always did that my stuff just isn’t eye-catching in a demo setting. Oh well! There are lots of pictures here (it’s technically [...]
So many of us say that one reason we play in the SCA is for those magic moments, the ones when you’re transported to another time, another place. Whether you call this “The Dream” or something else, it’s a wonderful reminder of why we do what we do. I remember my first “magic moment”; it [...]
And documentation is even written! I was working on the hosen handout I’ve promised to approximately a zillion people and I realized that I needed to actually test out one of the patterning methods I was suggesting (measuring and sketching, as opposed to draping). So I made a pair, using some scrap linen/cotton [...]
