A tiny obsessive perfectionist sewing her way through history
Drachenwald Crown Tourney has come and gone, actually more than a week ago? I did kind of massively overdo things that weekend and spent most of the week recovering. But! I went! I did finish my fitted gown in time, thank god, because it was chilly. Going up the spiral staircase to the dormitories in [...]
I always feel a little bit awkward about doing this, like "look at all these things I want! Please buy them for me!" But the reality is that while my family loves me they don't always know what to do with me.....both in terms of gifts and also social dynamics. I also love it when [...]
Last year I did a post that was "all of the things I learned in my first year of historical costuming!" I decided that it might be nice to make that a tradition, so here are the things I learned in my second year of historical costuming. Year Two lessons End threads well when [...]
Ok. I am going to put a header here that some of this could be controversial, even though I'm pretty sure I think everything that is put on the internet could be controversial, so this might be me being overly cautious. I don't think anyone will really be offended by this, but it is not [...]
Hi everyone! Sorry for my absence, I was doing my course orientation activities and my first week of postgraduate courses, so I've been pretty busy. I was frustrated when I was researching this program and housing at UofG that I couldn't find any information so I'm going to talk about that a fair amount.... if [...]
Your grannies are a national treasure, look after them. I sort of...forgot...that people smoke cigarettes. Whoops. People walk their dogs without leashes?? And the dogs don't run off and chase a squirrel up a tree?? I don't understand but it seems like a great idea since the dogs can stop to sniff things and then [...]
I've wanted for a while to make a lower-status 14th C dress. As I've continued to read and learn I discovered that the fitted dress+deep-cut surcote we think of as being quintessentially 14th C was actually only worn at the end of the 14th and early 15th and primarily by upper-status women. Inspired by a [...]
I will freely admit that I have been struggling to find things to put on this blog recently. I leave for Scotland in 2 weeks and 2 days, so mostly I am frantically sewing on a variety of things and organizing my life and picking up a WHOLE NEW HOBBY while I'm at it because, [...]
Somehow I've managed to live in California for the vast majority of my life and never been to the city of Los Angeles? I've been to Pasadena to visit CalTech and the Norton Simon, and Malibu to see relatives, but not LA proper, so my mom and I decided to fix that before I leave [...]
You ever start out doing something that's supposed to be simple and you end up in waaaaay over your head? Yeah. Welcome to my last couple days. I have 2 yards of a lovely changeable apricot/olive green silk that I bought at Discount Fabrics before I moved-- technically it's a shantung/dupioni silk with slubs, but [...]
