As per usual, Bjornsborg threw a really fantastic event this weekend. The theme was The Princess Bride - that's right, the movie! Not period, but who cares: it was fun, and it was really well done. There were themed activities and foods, fencing, fighting - maybe not the torture and murder, but there might have been true love, and probably a little bit of piracy (just a little bit).
And there was also an Inconcievable! Arts & Sciences Championship, which I’m proud and honored to be able to say that I won. Yay! I entered my Kostrup dress, which I've been blogging about for the past several weeks (here, here, and here).
I totally forgot to take pictures of my setup. I also forgot to pack my dressmakers dummy, so I had to display the dress flat on the table, and I was SO mad at myself. (It was kind of a crazy weekend, my house’s plumbing exploded the morning I left town for the event, and then my car broke down on the way there so I spent half the event managing repairs and getting rides back and forth from the site to the mechanic’s shop!) But here’s a pic of my practice run that I did last week:
I really love putting together displays like this, and I’m pleased to say I got a lot of compliments on it. My documentation is there, as well as some tablet weaving materials and a sample of the same band I wove for the dress, as well as an extra set of beads and some beads still on the mandrels. There’s a linen fabric “booklet” of all the stitches I used in the project, and a yellow linen pleating example that people could pick up and examine closely. And finally à page of photos from the project, some of which were in the documentation and some were not.
And here’s a pic of me actually IN the dress for once:
Plumbing and car trouble aside, the parts of the event thst I did get to enjoy were super fun, and I’m SO excited to have won the A&S competition.
Saturday afternoon after I got my car back from the shop, I sat under the pavilion and sewed a hood out of the last of the scraps from Ivar’s coat. I finished right as court started; and I had fun talking to all the folks who stopped by to see wha I was doing.
Now it just needs embellishment of some kind - fancy edge stitching, or tablet woven trim? Haven’t decided yet.
Anyway, today I’m unpacking and washing garb, and resting. More soon!
