A crafty lifestyle blog
Moira brought three kittens to Border War, a local SCA event. They were definitely the stars of the day! This post is entirely gratuitous kitten photos with me and my friends. In case you’re wondering, this patched hood is the same linen hood that was in this post of me blacksmithing. It has worn down
Last November, I was Marshal in Charge at a rapier event, and I wanted a fancy garment to show that I was acting as a marshal. For years, I’d always heard the phrase “marshal tabard,” but I never wanted to wear a tabard. Then a member of my barony made a gorgeous marshalling German capelet,
This is a custom phone case I made on commission. I really enjoy making custom new pieces! The strap on the back is to thread onto a belt. This design is the heraldry for the Cavendish Knot, the first rapier award you can get in the Middle Kingdom in the Society for Creative Anachronism. The
As I mentioned last week, the peerages are the highest awards in the Society for Creative Anachronism. The Order of the Laurel is for arts and/or sciences, indicating that someone has done years of research, artwork, and teaching of a medieval craft. Another good friend of mine was elevated last year to the Order of
In the Society for Creative Anachronism, the highest award you can get is being elevated to a peerage. There are five peerages: the Royal Peers, related to being King/Queen; the Order of the Chivalry, for armored combat; the Order of the Laurel, for arts and/or sciences; the Order of the Pelican, for service; and the
This past January at the Twelfth Night event I coordinated the second Pentamere largesse tourney! This is a tournament to make sets of a dozen items to be donated to somewhere in the Middle Kingdom – the crown, or a more local group (Barony, Canton, etc), so that they have prizes to give out. I
I was asked to post the pattern for the dragon in the Norse-inspired Draco Invictus weave I made a few years ago. Draco Invictus (dragon unconquered/invincible) is the motto/war-cry of the Middle Kingdom, and I wove it in Viking runes along with two dragons. I made the pattern for the dragons myself, after being inspired
This beautiful weave of a red fret is made of silk and cotton. The white is a gorgeous silk generously given to me by Dillon ap Dillon, an amazing tablet weaver in the Barony of Cynnabar. The red fibers is crochet cotton size 10, purchased from JoAnn’s. I love the contrast of the shiny silk
Neck Coolers make awesome gifts, largesse, and site tokens for people in the SCA – or really, any other group that spends a lot of time outside in the hot summer sun, especially when mixed with exertion (armored combat, rapier combat, archery, equestrian, Habitat for Humanity/volunteering organizations…). What is a neck cooler? It’s a long