If you've even dipped your toes in, you have likely realized that reenactment can easily eat all of your money. Especially if you want all the goodies! The entire time I've been in the SCA I've been either not working or working retail part-time, so I can't drop a fortune on my kit. In part [...]
Category: Research
So You Want To Learn How To Make A “Cotehardie”
Honestly I'm writing this because a friend of mine was asking people for help on the Book of Faces about how men's 14th C "cotehardies"* are constructed. I was just going to send these to him, but it occurred to me that other people might want this information too..... so I am compiling it on [...]
14th Century Thread pt II
I realized I never shared this with you guys, so here is the documentation for my 14th C sewing thread! So here you go, this is the actual coherent version of the rambling on this post. thread documentation The 'blurb' for this competition recommended 1-3 pages of documentation, so I tried to keep it at [...]
Adventures in Catalán
Hello yes hi I vanished again! I keep doing that! I think the main problem is that I am just chugging along on a lot of things right now (no, actually, a LOT of things) and I never feel like I have anything in particular to write about. Some of that will probably be detailed [...]
Clothing Rav
Many of you will remember my friend Darrin, of the stupidly-complicated-device and lack-of-garb. (His SCA name is Rav, which leads to the convenient mnemonic of us as Rav4 and Ex-hera. Ie the Toyota Rav 4 and the Nissan Extera. Blame Laurie, but it helps) This is the garb I made him approximately a year ago. [...]
14th Century Sewing Thread
And I'm off down another rabbit hole! At Mists Investiture in May they're having an A&S competition the theme of which is, essentially "Things Made At Home." They specifically mention spun thread as an example, to which I went. Huh. That is a thing I can do! Documentation is required, which means I've been in [...]
The Shirt of Pelitanical Insanity
As previously mentioned.... 5 or 10 or 15 times, William/Tanis/T finally got made a peer! (Because I think I never explained this-- they are the same person. He is also the guy who walked into Lacis last November and convinced me to go to fighter practice. These days he's my best friend) T does primarily [...]
Rooster Dudes
Ok, firstly, the Lipperheide Punto de Milano project has been banished. This thing. Gone. Adios. No more. ....ok, I didn't throw it away or anything, it's hidden in a corner of my sewing basket, but mentally it is dead to me. Why? Well, it was too sloppy, the thread/fabric combo really didn't work, and it's [...]
Escapades with Alcega
My right wrist gave an almighty crack this morning and then stopped hurting! My left still hurts but I'm right handed so we're moving back into sewing. Weirdly my wrist doesn't hurt but the muscles in my forearms are still tight so I'm going to keep heat-packing and massaging those. Despite the fact that I [...]
Adventures in Alcega
We're moving on to Part II of "weird shit Callie does while not sewing." For today's nonsense-- trying to make some sense of the 1589 Tailor's Pattern Manual by Alcega. This, along with Hispanic Costume, is the resource for 16th C Spanish clothing-- a surviving manual on how to lay out all variety of garments [...]
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