What I Made in May.

Tablet weaving

Notebooks.

This is the leftover bits from one of two notebooks.

Cockles and Mussels
autoharp: Sarah
singing: Sarah
cello: Camilla
viola: Alyssa
guitar? Zappy

Irish blessing song
Turtledoves

Ongoing: work on 1+ daily
-tablet weaving book
-home videos
-mending pile
- --> don't start new projects
-music group
-Much Ado - script

non plus ultra
non plus ultra
non plus ultra

Let the thing be destroyed.
It shall pass away in a breath like this word.

Goals
less carbs
less dairy
physical daily

Their smug belief that they are the most sincere and they have the best taste, and the straight expectation that everyone, naturally, agrees with them because you can't argue against the best, and it is their duty to convince anyone who doesn't believe them. I'm not like that. I know that people don't like what I like, and I don't care about convincing them, and I know it's stupid to try.

The definition of hipster is still elusive. Some people want to be hipsters and and glom onto everything they can from that culture. Others, more often it seems, view hipsters with derision, flauting them as shallow beings, whose personality stems solely from cultural affectation. I tend to be of the latter camp. I have friends who seem to qualify as hipsters, and I simply have to avoid talking with them about music and most things connected with pop culture and their form of pop culture. I also think hipsters have stupid fashion, but I don't say anything because that's rude, and fashion, like music, is a strict matter of personal taste.

Necrotome - for cutting into body 1540-1075 BC

706-350 BC linen strips ~4" wide, torn into strips. Some have selvedge, some have long fringe. Weave looks just like modern linen (unbleached)

Baron von Holz early 1600s wearing leather boots - leather soles ~1/2" thick
knit stockings at least knee-high, white, finely knit like modern cotton socks.

Baroness Schenck von Geier (year?) knit white stockings very finely knit. Decay before they get to knees. constructed with long heel gussets. early 1600s?

When you serve someone, they're probably grateful, and their gratitude will probably lead them to doing something for you. That could be interpreted as a selfish motive, or it could be interpreted as a kind of sharing of love and opportunity for serving and self-improvement for both of you. But the main thing to remember is this--even if they're not grateful, even if they don't do anything for you, your action has made the world, the dreary, horrid, uncaring world, a better place. And that alone should be motivation enough.

Harry Potter craftbusters

Butterbeer
cream soda
butterscotch flavor
melted butter
whipped cream topping

Harry Potter Christmas

Silk.

I'm sewing something in silk right now (so lovely!) and that reminded me of something I've been meaning to talk about: silk!

I've seen a lot of people in SCA say something like, "Make sure to make your summer garb, or at least chemise, out of silk, because that will keep you cool."

Well... not necessarily. "Cool" is a really relative term in this situation.I got a silk scarf for Christmas, and despite the incredibly thin fabric, the instant I wrapped it around my neck, I could feel it reflecting my body heat back to me. So, in that situation, it was quite warm.

When it comes to silk, it doesn't insulate like wool, or breathe/wick like linen. It reflects heat.

When you see Middle Eastern garb and gape at the amount of layers and length of the garb, wondering how they could ever wear that much clothing in that climate, think about this: The silk is reflecting their body heat back to them, AND (this is the important part) reflecting the environment's heat away from them. So when you're hanging out in a 120 F desert, the 98 F of your body temperature is relatively cool. Likewise, when it drops to 60 F at night, you'll feel pretty warm. (I have a personal account from a friend who was deployed in Iraq that when you're acclimatized to daytime that hot, 60 F literally does feel like freezing.)

So, if you're choosing silk, keep in mind the average temperatures for where you'll be wearing it. Here in Utah, it doesn't much get above 100 F or so in the summer, so wearing silk then won't make much of a difference, and linen is generally cheaper. But wearing a silk chemise would make quite a difference in winter--with wool on top, of course. No way is all-silk garb going to keep you warm enough in Utah winter. Not with the wind and snow.

What I Made in March & April.

Real quilters would balk at this monstrosity. There's no attempt at a visual design, the shape is slightly skewed, the corners of the squares don't match up perfectly, it's made of all kinds of different fabrics that will shrink differently and bleed colors on each other, and it's not even actually quilted. But this is exactly the type of blanket I always make, every few years, to use up my scrap fabric and dead clothes. Raine calls them Weasley blankets.

Earring holder made from tablet weaving scraps.

Key and stone necklace.

Chew toy for Cordy.

Little notebook.