Since it is less than 3 months to CF and I know how fast various sewing projects have been going (NOT ( Read more... )

Continuing the record from 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010Posting this now so it can be filled in as I go, just like the above entries ( Read more... )

Or less project inspiration and more project doing...

Currently I have a pair of naalbinded socks for Z started (which I keep forgetting about). There was a start on some 14th C brickstitch, but wrong size thread for ground, so that is a non-starter. And that is it.

CF is coming up (2 weeks 4 months away), and after having spent several years ( Read more... )

Not a bad weekend, though the weather has been shite ( Read more... )

That new current project I had been contemplating...

The fitted cotehardie one where I had even gone so far as to check out Costly thy habit for instructions...

Is now back down the queue due to basal_surge realising that he needs a 14th century outfit to go with his 13-14th century writing desk for a display... at the end of this month ( Read more... )

The weekend has consisted of tidying, laundry, sewing (the anglo-saxon tunic), tablet weaving (trim for finishing the anglo-saxon tunic) and hennaing hair. And pizza and a pot luck evening for which the themes (inadvertent) were pasta and crumble (all very yummy though).

Today, mostly while listening to In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg. ( Read more... )

Continuing the record from 2007 and 2008 and 2009Posting this now so it can be filled in as I go, just like the above entries ( Read more... )

It is that time of year for big camping event summaries.
For those wishing to skim to the piccies, they are on here from the given image onwards.

For anyone one who doesn't care, the rest is going behind the cut.

( The gory details )

Continuing the record from 2007 and 2008Posting this now so it can be filled in as I go, just like the above entries ( Read more... )

Breast band: Done. Yay for time sitting around at events sewing. And being able to use the hemming from the last garment it was part of. Experiments on how to wear it are ongoing and amuse Z endlessly ( Read more... )