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, [...]
Ciudad de los angeles
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 [...]
Elizabethan Jackets
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 [...]
Peasantry
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 [...]
Visities Meridies
.....that joke might not actually work. Whoops. A while back I stumbled across a list of the classes to be offered at Known World Costume and Fiber Arts Symposium (hereafter known as KWCAFAS because that is a name of unnecessary length) and I was filled with much longing. Problem is that KWCAFAS was near Atlanta, [...]
Some small progress
I felt like I had a few weeks there were I was so productive and now everything has slowed to a crawl. So here I am to show you what I've been doing and remind myself that I have gotten things done! 1. Alyce's camicia was finished on time (an addition to what is apparently [...]
Researching the Obscure
Yesterday was West Kingdom Collegium, and for some reason I decided to teach a class. Actually, I know the reason, and that was that I like teaching! I asked William what he thought I should teach-- my History of Lace class seemed like a bad idea, since there isn't much interest in late 16th C [...]
