I might make the (public transport) trek to IKEA tomorrow. I have a strong urge to make a yarnbombing-yarn organising wallplate out of plastic bag holders.
Kind of like this, but four of them horizontally lined up against a backboard. With a rail to put in machine bits and a hanging cup to put in the working tools. And I must have this NOW NOW NOW, ( Read more... )

Still to do:

1.     Vambrace tooling (they're more motion restrictive than I'd like, so I'm only going to be wearing the left one, and I'll see what it looks like after it's been oiled)
2.     knife + sheath (Don't have, but I have so many accessories that I doubt this is in any way needed)
3.     Bow (stained, made a different string. Still doesn't look like ( Read more... )

Updated from here
I'm probably making some things more complicated than they need to be, but I am hoping that if I keep having so much fun with the archery I can join a longbow group that also does some creative/re-enactment stuff, and I might want to use this costume there. So it needs to be functional too.

Still to do:

1.     Sword sheath/hanging strap ( Read more... )

Remember that (Ithilien) Ranger costume I'm making? I'm looking for simple decoration patterns I could burn into the leather. I have a few star patterns and the white tree on the quiver, but since it's a common ranger, I don't want to use too much in the way of 'royal' imagery ( Read more... )