A tiny obsessive perfectionist sewing her way through history
I know, I know, I have been failing at blogging. But to be fair I changed countries, self-isolated for COVID, yelled at the medical centre until they refilled one of my essential medications, and had technical difficulties with literally every electronic thing I own. Oh and started the second year of my MPhil. Nbd. For [...]
I was really extraordinarily surprised when my last post (cough RANT cough) about the history of colored sheep, a topic that is normally considered to be esoteric beyond belief, conjured a lot of interest in a follow-up. So Jason, Ari, and Randall, wherever you are, this is for you. It's pretty common knowledge that a [...]
Hopefully some of you remember the Avoiding Heatstroke Dress from a while back, which was intentionally designed and built to keep one (1) tiny human who is bad at homeostasis from developing heatstroke at events in the 95-105 ºF range. It was....moderately successful, I survived June Crown 2018 but Purgatorio 2019 killed me. It [...]
I'm in a weird sort of mood-- I didn't sleep well, and I'm stressed about school-- so we're doing something a little less optimistic than usual. Plus, if I write this now and I am ever low on project inspiration I can come back here and get some ideas! It looks like I am going [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It occurred to me a while back that, since I'm making a blackworked coif....it might be a good idea to have clothes to wear with it? Possibly? I am 100% trash for people doing gentry/merchant/yeoman class clothing well, as so many people seem to aim straight for the nobility without realizing the time and money [...]
Psst: this is both a practice for me in getting my brain organized for my class in two weeks, and also to accompany said class with pictures, links, etc. Enjoy! Hello, welcome! My name is Axera Coscolano and in the mundane world I work at a lace museum and nerd out over trims a lot. [...]
