July In Review

I'm skipping May and June, because I did absolutely nothing SCA-related in those two months.  I took a much-needed break from SCAdian life, and focused on working on my house - gardening, painting ceilings, rearranging furniture, cleaning out the garage.

I didn't get much SCA stuff done in July, either, but I did manage to:

• finish a hat I started long ago, and I love it
• fix up an old wooden box, and paint pretty pictures on it 

The first event of the Fall 2013 season (for me) is War of Ages, on September 7th...and I have a loooooot of things to get done in August to get ready. Let the projects - and the blogging - commence! 

 

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Oops...again.

I am *terrible* at keeping up with my Month In Review posts, you guys.  They're mostly just for record-keeping purposes, anyway - makes it easier to find things six months from now, you know?  So anyway, here's 2013 so far:

January: 

• couple of plastic masks for a masked ball that I ended up not attending, lol
• was on a cruise, so not much else happened :) 

February: 

• made some stamps!
• learned to crochet snoods
• made over an old Burgundian into my new red velvet Italian 
• hanging candle plate
• painted a blue wooden box (ended up keeping my sewing/embroidery/art supplies in it)
• embroidered (badly) little red needle case
• altered my red linen dress
• more period underwear
• another purse
• Made a cover for my metal EZ-Up canopy (the frame broke in April, by the way)
• finished my blue belt
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March: 

• another mask  - once again, I ended up not going to the ball, lol
• "period cigarette case" (and I quit smoking in May, lol)
• two embroidered purses finished
• GULF WAR! 

April: 

• started work on my first silk banner for me
• another snood
• brown linen Italian
• paper fan

So far, for the month of May, I've been working solely on projects for my house, which you can see over on that blog.  I haven't been eventing, and I probably won't be eventing throughout the coming summer, or working on much, SCA-wise, as I'm about to be astounding low on funds until this coming fall when my financial situation will right itself again (long story, though not a huge deal in the long run).  

I will, however, be working on a new bliaut for myself, for the Fall Baronial event in October;  and I'll likely be crocheting more stuff, making more jewelry, and doing other small accessory-type projects with materials I already have on hand.  So, while posting may be sporadic, and likely not all that impressive, I'll be *here*.  See you all soon. :) 

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It Took Me Twelve Months...

...but I'm finally posting one of these on time!

November In Review

• made a shiny new fancy court outfit - not that I have any pictures.  Because I suck.
• started another embroidered pouch, because I haven't finished the first one yet
• Event:  Bordermarch Autumn Melees (BAM), of which I have exactly 0 pictures. :( 
• new file cabinet + sewing patterns = a more organized craft room
• started refurbishing my gray Ikea linen cotehardie (to be continued)

I won't even promise you pictures of stuff from here on out.  But I will promise to try to be better at it.  

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Month(s) In Review

Damn, I forgot a month again.

August In Review: 

• Jewelry!
• Caerleon sleeves!
• New pavilion! 
• Secret Samurai 
• Secret Viking presents

September In Review: 

• A new chemise/nightrail
• finally, some pictures of the teal cotehardie and navy bliaut
• jewelry to go with that Caerleon uniform
• a Medieval sports bra, and
• Medieval Crotchless Gaucho Panties
• and some embroidery

And now if you'll excuse me, I have some more Japanese pants to make. 

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IT LIVES.

More or less.   No kidding, I was sick for like two and a half weeks.  And I've been back at work this week, catching up and trying to get my shizz in order.

At the moment I'm working on an A&S thing that I can't tell you about yet (it's a surprise for someone); and I'm about to start my pre-event-season sewing, so there'll be LOTS of updates soon, I promise!

Meanwhile, here's

June in Review

• navy Bliaut for me
• Blue + white houppelande for Sir John
• got my new belt hardware in the mail! 

July in Review

• small wooden honor shield for Sir John
• sick!

Not a very productive couple of months, but hey, it's Summer!  And did I mention I had the freaking plague?  Yeah.  

Anyway - onward! To event season in Ansteorra! 

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Halfway through the year already?!

May In Review


Projects: 

• little red cape for Clothiers' Guild A&S Entry
• began navy linen bliaut

Events:

• Stargate-Loch Sollier co-baronial

Working on/upcoming:

• finish the navy linen bliaut (almost there!)
• an A&S project gift
• cheater underclothing 

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April In Review

Yes, I know it's May 24th.  SHHH.

April In Review: 
PROJECTS

• whomped up a simple, black cotehardie for myself for Queen's Champion
• Made a little red cloak for the Clothiers' Guild entry into the A&S competition at the Stargate-Loch Sollier co-baronial event
• painted six new charters for the kingdom (not blogged about, sorry.  They're not original designs, just un-colored blanks that you paint and turn in. I'll blog about originals when I do them). 
• hosted a silk banner painting class at my house for friends, and learned to paint silk!  Also helped make a giant awesome banner for the company...and then completely forgot to share it here.  Whoops!  

EVENTS

• Queen's Champion 
• Stargate-Loch Sollier co-baronial

Light month!  I was actually sick off and on for most of it.  :( 

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Haha, Whoops. (Month[s] In Review).

Dropped the ball on this one, didn't I?  Ahem:

March In Review
Events

• Gulf Wars (inter-kingdom)

Projects

• red sleeves
• Began teaching Vasilii to sew; between the two of us we made him two more fighting tunics and two more arming hoods
• multitudinous last-minute alterations and quick-fixes before War   >_<

February In Review
Events

• Candlemas (Baronial)
• entered (but did not compete in) my first Bardic competition
• sat gate for the second time ever.  I really enjoy doing that. 
• Winter Crown Tournamenet (in Seawinds)

Projects

• red sleeves
• 3rd chemise, loose, doubles as a nightgown :) 
• Finished blue velvet late-1500s transitional gown for Candlemas
• finished Vasilii's green opashen
• a Japanese jin-baori for a friend, which I realize I forgot to ever blog about!!  Coming soon! 

January In Review
Events

• Shadowlands' Fall Ball In A Small Hall (yes, in January, long story)
• calligraphy class! 
• 12th Night (The Steppes)
• entered Sable Talon original scroll competition:  did not win; but was asked by the laurel-in-charge to re-create my scroll for a grant-level award instead, because (she said) it was too fancy and pretty to be an AOA-level award.  Hee!  

Projects

• little red hand-stitched pouch for camera
• started blue velvet dress for Candlemas, made pearl-and-silver necklace for it
• threw together a new and more cohesive feast gear collection (red/gold)
• red brocade + green linen lining liripipe hood
• began experimenting with designing original scrolls, and learning calligraphy

December 2011 In Review

Events

• Yule Revel (baronial)

Projects

• aubergine linen gown with pomegranate embroidery on the sleeves
• made over the entire craft/sewing room
• new shirt for Vasilii for court/evening wear
• began embroidery on pieces for pomegranate bag

I'm hoping since May is only a week away, that I won't forget to do April in a timely fashion.  ;) 

November Month In Review, and Some Shiny Stuff

Late again!  At least I remembered.

November In Review:

• Events: Tournament of the Cross/Three Orders in Rosenfeld
• green velvet sleeves
• painted/link sewing kit box
• white linen braies
• navy sleeves w/ cloth buttons
• fancy pomegranate fabric ordered, rec'd, and wrong (not really, I'm just a dipsh*t)
• brown liripipe hood
• red côte/navy trim

Meanwhile, after a full day of fabric and hobby shopping Saturday (hee), I washed some gorgeous eggplant-colored fabric that I brought home, and threw together some jewelry components (the pendant and chain, and the earring drops were new; the rest of the hardware and beads I already had).  Candlemas Outfit Draft #4 is officially underway!  :) 

inspired in part by the necklace Inara wears
in the Firefly episode "Jaynestown"   :o)

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Month In Review

I was going to start doing these monthly to make it easier to find things at a glance, and also to keep track of everything I've been doing, and the workload I make for myself.  This is the first one I've remembered to do, hehe.

October 2011
Started blue cloth buttons for long blue sleeves
Started a little wooden sewing box
New barbette (2) and fillet cap
Hat
Lute bag/carrying case
Blue/teal half sleeves with gold/crystal buttons
Small red footstool for camp
Grey linen côtehardie
Patterned a friend of mine for a fitted, supportive côte...and forgot to take pics or write about it  :)

September 2011
Black côtehardie & embroidered/pearled veil & wimple for Fall Baronial choral performance
New linen fighting shirt for Vasilii, with padded shoulders to help prevent armor bites
Added faux-fur trim to Vasilii's red shuba
Second pair of [black] pants for Vasilii
Made a few necklace/earring sets to wear with garb
Started this blog!  :D

next project...

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