A tiny obsessive perfectionist sewing her way through history
A while ago--well, probably well over a year ago at this point-- I introduced you guys to the project I am calling the Opus Anglicanum Bag of Doom, or OBOD. This is a gift I'm making for a friend, in my grand tradition of making excessively complicated things for other people, and then taking forever to do [...]
So a while back I wrote up a post summarizing the information found in Textiles and Clothing 1150-1450, a book about a large number of archaeological finds from London. I shared it to a Facebook group, thinking it might be useful to other people, and there was one guy who commented on it who had [...]
Wow, what a title! I finally got around to doing something I've wanted to do for a while-- going through one of my favorite books (Textiles and Clothing 1150-1450) and summarizing how to make a garment I make a lot as close to how they would have done it as possible-- a late 14th century [...]
This....is gonna be a long one. Way back in the summer of 2019 my mom and I took a long weekend to travel to LA. The main reason for our trip was to visit the Getty Center, but we stopped by the fashion district as well....and dropped some money. I ended up purchasing 8 yards [...]
Wow. I disappeared there. Like, seriously. I don't even have an excuse this time--my internship ended in January (I actually managed to finish rehousing the 500+ pieces in the core collection by myself with FOUR DAYS TO SPARE [the other intern left early because she got a permanent position, so I was flying solo for [...]
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. As things were opening up a tad (now closing again, thanks to Omicron and, more personally, the fact that my mom is now immunosuppressed due to chemotherapy) I got invited to some events, because apparently I have friends now. I met Hannah (@chai_and_parche on Instagram) over, well, Instagram, and it [...]
Ok. Where were we. March-ish? Right, well in the intervening time I have: finished all my classwork for my master's, done all of the research AND written up my dissertation, gotten a job (ok, internship, but paid), moved countries (again), and packed most of my reenactment kit into a box that I will see again [...]
The most common thing I hear when talking to people about my counted thread embroidery obsession is "I can't do that, there's too much counting and looking at charts". And they do have a point-- if you are a person who hates looking up from your work, finding your place in a chart, and looking down again, counted thread might drive you a bit mad. But, there are a number of tricks you can use to make the whole process easier.
Once again I am back to confirm that yes, I am alive, and yes, I am still making progress on various projects. Slowly. I also wanted to announce that I am participating in the West Kingdom's Virtual Artisan Display for March Crown, so if you want overviews of some of my recent projects with everything, [...]
Hello yes I am mostly still alive (despite the best efforts of my treatment object for this semester, which we think has arsenic salts on it) and, actually, still making progress on my projects. It's just that I am once again working on things that are all super slow and therefore I have very little [...]
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