Hi everybody, Oh boy do I have a overdying question. I bought 5 yards of 60" wool blend gabardine on ebay this past week. I received it today and it is a ...
I do a lot of costuming for others, and I would try and stock up on the greens - for some reason, I have trouble finding it and it is always snapped up right...
I am making my first attempt at Italian. I know that is broad burt I am making an earlyish 15th C gown with bodice attached to skirt. Would like to have it...
Hi all, well the first Showcase of the new year experienced a bit of a hiccup, but onwards and ever upwards! This first installment owes much to the...
I'm another newbie and I've had 3 machines since I got married. Sadly, when I moved back West from the East, FED EX demolished BOTH my used Kenmore (this thing...
Which I forgot to list... 1. Curtains - for friend's baby, for living room, bedroom, dining room and kitchen. - have baby fabric. Others will wait til spring...
Hi, I've been lurking on this list for a while. I'm Aislinn De Juatt, and I attend the College of St. Boniface in the Barony of Winters Gate, West Kingdom. I...
I would usually do these by hand, but I'm pressed for time, can't find my instruction manual, and this is the best forum I have to ask about this. I can't...
....that it is time to announce the opening of voting in the Italian Showcase Rose Awards for 2006. :-) This year I have decided on voting forms in both plain...
Somewhere in the past few months, someone posted a link either here, or on the AOTC list, of a 2 piece sleeve pattern for a cotehardie. Basically, a piece for...
By any chance has someone heard if the Fed Govt is sponsoring any grants to grow industrial hemp for living history groups like us? Does the Fed sponsor any...
I recieved fabric from my mother and have decided to bead it as suggested by someone on here. My questions are 1) should I make the dress and then bead? 2)...
This is the dawn of my involvement in the SCA and I seek period garb. I am playing the persona of Bertram le Fletcher, arrow-maker for the Kingdom of the West,...
Well I have earned it and I deserve it so I am going to get a new sewing machine. So I am delurking to get your sage advice. I mainly sew SCA garb and other...
Oh, I am very interested in putting some interior drapes in our round spoke tent, something more then just a plain sheet. Can you post the pictures or send...
Again--I'm yet another vocabulary-impaired newbie looking for research sites or resources, else I'd be on Google... :P Every time I type in 'Italian...
Ooh, boy... this is a tough one. Let's go chronologically, shall we? 1* A Shield-Maiden outfit for my friend, due on her birthday, Jan 12. (No, I haven't...
I love chocolate covered espresso beans, but I can only eat a few at a time or I get so very hyper. As to garb plans for the new year... first is a complete...
I'm making a reversable skirt -- and I think that I want to flat-fell the seams because that looks the same on both sides. Am I correct? jerusha ... Susan...
Does anyone know about the use of hemp for lower and lower middling clothing in the late 16th Century in England? I know farmers were encouraged to grow hemp...
nah....I had thought it was the leaves that are dried and used for marijuana mainly with the flower buds being stronger. Legal limits are on size of plant and...
Was there a previous discussion that makes this site relevant? To me, it looks to be spam. Elspeth "I slept and dreamt that life was joy, I woke and saw that...
Greetings visitors, I am not currently involved with the SCA but hope to be in the near future. You have arrived a little too late for most of the festive...
Greetings, To clarify I will be staying in Phillipsburg NJ right across the border from Easton. I won't have independent transport except in the evenings. Oh...
Greetings, I will soon be venturing into the east kingdom. Near Easton PA to be mundanely specific. I will have most of my days completely unoccupied due to...
Thanks for any info. I try to use American textiles if possible. Have a great Holiday.. Solstice was last night weeeeeee Kyle Making the world beautiful one...
