Cloth of Stars

1490s Florentine Italian for Candlemas 2024 In the beginning, I honestly had no thoughts about what to wear to Candlemas in February - I fig...

 Nothing major to report, I just made one last under-dress for my Viking wardrobe:  This fabric is a pale grey lightweight linen - if you lo...

So I had this huge silk quilt.  The front was made from dozens of pieces cut from the edge banding on silk saris from India.  The b...

Valkyrfelt was AMAZING. Bjornsborg really knows how to throw an event. There were so many neat things to do and to learn, there was music ev...

This is my parasol.  It started life as that same ubiquitous white parasol that's sold at wars and which everyone has - you might h...

....is over. Thank god.  Actually, I had a freaking BLAST, I'm just glad the stress is over.  I was so nervous about this event that I s...

HOO BOY have I been nose-to-the- grindstone -sewing-machine lately.  Today I pulled ten hours straight!  I'm happy to say that I'm o...

Well, I spent the middle of the week sick.  Again.  Food poisoning this time.  Did I break a mirror and forget or something?  Not throw spi...

A bit of a thing I made over the past weekend, for an A&S competition coming up.  Some friends of mine and I are entering together, each...