Eurovision Song Contest

Finland just won the Eurovision Song Contest. With a pretty poppy 80s hard rock song and a band dressed up like orcs or something. I am extremely amused and rather happy for Finland, who has never won. I just wish Carola (Sweden) had ended last. She's a homophobic bitch suffering from megalomania and the song was bland and annoyingly repetitive.

disappointments

When I tried on Maja's new wool hose yesterday they turned out to be too small. Despite the fact that they were made after the previous hose and enlarged. But I had shortened the foot, which was too long in her old ones and apparently that wasn't a good idea. And of course they were totally hand sewn with seams split and felled to each side to make them easier to walk on. And I had also made a pair in hand woven linen. I will try to make a new, longer foot piece and see how it works. Otherwise I will have to make another pattern. Maybe one with a separate sole piece.
It's not so much work making hose, but it's still annoying.

Here's a picture of me, Maja and Valeria from yesterday's medieval market. It was raining most of hte time. Maja's wearing tights, viking age shoes, a linen shift, a thin green wool tunic (the same as on this picture from last year, but with side gores and new, wider and longer, sleeves added), her new viking coat and a linen cap.
Valeria is wearing a 12th century dress that I made for her in 2004 and one of my old cloaks.
I'm wearing a wool undertunic and a shorter overtunic. The veil is also from thin wool. The outfit is inspired by pictures from the Fecamp pasalter

Neck trim for the tunicella

Yesterday, at Lödöse medieval market, I found silk tablet woven trim, ca 15mm wide. It is not the same pattern as on the original tunicella; this pattern is made by turning all the tablets at the same time while tablet woven trim from the middle ages was patterned with tablets being turned individually. But it's still silk and tablet woven and I don't have to make it myself. So I put it around the neck and then put freshwater pearls along the edges.

( This is how it looks: )