All the frantic sewing I've been doing (and not posting about - 'cause, ya know, I've been like sewing) actually has a real oh-my-gosh-totally-soon deadline -- TRM choose Calum and I to succeed Milesent and Edward as the next Baron and Baroness of Cleftlands!

*SQUEE!!!*BOUNCE!*BOUNCE!*SQUEE!* :-D

We step up on April 14th (eek!). I will be frantically ( Read more... )

So I had more fittings for Calum's grande assiette cote today.

Here are pictures from the pattern I draped in my first attempt (the one I wasn't that happy with) -- I got it to fit reasonably well... but I still was not pleased... it did not have the characteristic shape to the front gore:


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For those of you who aren’t local SCA folks, Calum and I put our names in the hat to become the next Baron and Baroness of Cleftlands. We won’t actually know who’s selected until April, and the investiture will be April 14, so it behooves me to start on possible “stepping up” garb just in case. It feels incredibly presumptuous of me to do this, but ( Read more... )