The Yahoo Group on SCA-Garb is a wonderful community! They've just saved me a bit of heartache & work in using the portrait of Catherine Parr as inspiration for a dress. I was planning on making a corset and farthingale to wear underneath it, but in discussing this outfit, someone brought up the fact that she was probably wearing a kirtle under ( Read more... )

I've decided what I'm going to do for Halloween this year...I'm going as the guy in the board game Operation. I'll be cutting the various game pieces out of felt and velcroing them to tan pants and/or a pink shirt. What I want to know is...who would have thought it would be so hard to find large graphics of some sort for the pieces? Come on ( Read more... )