Made a Hood Today

Made a hood based on this: http://www.medieval-baltic.us/skjold.html

I think it turned out ok? It's a little tight I guess, and next time I'll make it longer so it comes down further in the front and back, but not bad for a first attempt.

Finished Another Piece

Wound up using some old heavyweight linen to make a simple apron dress. Don't have brooches for it yet, but I think the color is lovely with the red tunic dress. Took maybe two hours to cut, sew, and hem. No trim or decoration on it yet either.

Red Tunic Dress

Finished the red one. :) I'm going to make a green one next, maybe with lacing instead of being pull-over like these last two.

Got some campsite planning done, too, but now I have to get to work on some things for my bf otherwise he will have just one pair of pouffy pants and nothing else.

Another Tunic Dress

But this one isn't made from a bed sheet. It's a linen blend, and I got it about half off. Wound up being $5 a yard, so that's not too expensive. Basically I can make one of these dresses in around five hours, and they look lovely and are easily modified to fit a variety of centuries. New favorite dress pattern, hands down.

Bed Sheet Tunic Dress

Decided to make a tunic dress out of an old bed sheet, just to try out the pattern. So far so good!

I think if I like the way it looks when finished, I may add it to the Pennsic heap, just for at-camp wear, or if I manage to rope a friend into going, they'll have a head start on garb.

Sewed Today

For like. Three or four hours. But not on the viking outfit I have in mind. That requires a great deal more mead...

Pennsic Prep

2016 will mark 8 years since the last time I managed to make it to Pennsic, but we're really trying to get back "home". Call it my New Year's resolution, I guess. I'm cleaning and reorganizing my craft room later this week, and then I want to start working on some Pennsic storage solutions first so that I can pretty much pack everything as soon as it's completed.

Before I start cleaning and rearranging, though, I need to take down the Christmas tree. It's kind of in the way, and I'm going to trash the living room while I empty out and clean the craft room. BF is gonna haaate it. Lol. Well, if he doesn't like it, he can just go to Pennsic naked then.

I'm also going to try and keep close track of spending and project notes, hence the little notebook.