Cloth of Stars

The third component of my summer project is the short jacket.  The thing is, the authors of the 2025 paper on the Bryndum grave G12 didn...

Things on my big summer project are proceeding apace.  In April I posted about a pleated serk I made; in May I built a wooden display stand ...

 My big summer project (which I’m hoping will be my Kingdom A&S project) is not only begun, but partway finished:  That needs ironing, s...

Sometimes you want to dress down a bit, you know?  Work days at camp, slow afternoons before court, and days when I just don’t feel like wea...

  Well, I'm back from Kingdom A&S, which is THE big A&S competition event in Ansteorra every year.    My project for Kingdom A...

While I waited for the mail to bring me the final piece of my big hand sewing project, I started something on the side to keep me busy:  So,...

 I finally made myself a new tunic to go with my male Norse outfit. The last one had seen better days: it started out life as a dress, which...

 I decided to make myself a hand-sewn Norse “apron dress” to go with the white serk I made by hand back in August. There was a whole grand ...

War of the Rams ended up being a total bust for me. I hurt my back on the first day, and was basically stuck in a chair at camp the entire w...

The second part of my hand sewn Viking outfit project is the smokkr , or apron dress:  I searched high and low for the right wool, learned a...

For the last couple of years, I've been paying special attention to finishing my machine-sewn garments by hand as much as I can.  Usuall...