Eight months ago I was elevated to the Order of the Laurel  (if you are not involved in or interested in the SCA, this post might be very...

Over the summer I was asked to weave a towel for a peerage elevation for a woman I have a tremendous amount of respect for. She has an iro...

My latest large weaving project was another spinner's guild queen's shawl.  I've posted about this in the past but for those o...

This little guide is intended to provide some basic information for members of the SCA’s Kingdom of Atlantia spinning guild, who handspin an...

Yesterday I spend the afternoon with a couple of SCA friends (my former peer and her husband) working on a new silk banner.  To b...

Much and more has been written already about the Lengberg Castle "bras."  I'm not going to rehash any of that except to say it...

One of the things I never post about but love to do, especially at events where I have a fire pit, is cook.  Not feast cooking, but camp an...

Last year at Ymir (a Viking themed SCA event held in North Carolina every February) I displayed my Perugia style towel for the first time.  ...

My second Queens Shawl weaving project was to be presented to HRM Kira at Pennsic last year.  The weft was hand spun by members of the spi...

Oz, the newest rescue.  He like to "help"  with the handsewing. The last year has been a wild ride, and I'm happy to say ...

Hurray for a finished  project!  I've been running through my list of Things To Do and getting a bit freaked out this week or so (ok, ...

As much as I loathed worked on the linen for the faux-rugia towel, I think it improved my weaving by leaps and bounds.  Nightmare projects...

Just a note to declare victory over the pounce!  After much gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair (and paper) I have won!  I can't post ...

How I am loving my little table loom!  Warping still takes forever, but it's so much easier to set up a short (ish) length of something ...

I've been asked to do the embroidery for another elevation cloak, this time for someone I know well.  It's a secret so no further de...

My kingdom's spinning guild makes a hand spun shawl for each new queen as a group project.  Sometime this means we do nothing for severa...

The faux-Perugia towel is finally, after long last and much swearing, gnashing of teeth, moving of the loom, and tearing of hair, done!...

Following up on my last post, I've finished setting up the warp weighted loom that has now taken over a not insignificant portion of m...

I got a warp weighted loom for my birthday (yay!) and what with it taking longer than expected to get here, fiber show season, crazy event s...

I am very pleased with how this coat turned out!  The embroidery was fun to do, and not that difficult.  It's all stem stitch, just li...