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Next year Gothenburg celebrates its 400th anniversary and I have planned to make a burgher's class outfit from 1621. However, I don't normally do 17th century, so i am happy that the shape of kirtles, as far as we can deduce from artwork from the period didn't change that much, or at all, between teh late 16th and the early 17th century. So with the correct jacket and headwear, apron, and ruffs I ought to be able to wear the kirtle in the SCA too. It is nice to wear the things you make more than once.
 
Except for the boninng channels in the linen lining - I used the layout of Dorothea Sabina's stays, it is all hand sewn. the lining of the bodice is two layers of linen and the top fabric is a 50% linen 50% wool fabric. The guards at the bottom of the skirt are fulled wool.

 
Obviously I am not correctly dressed in these photos - my hair is put up with a scrunchie!

And right now, today, I am waiting for a delivery from puresilks.us with black silk damask for the doublet that I plan to wear with this kirtle.
In other sewing news, I am making a zipped hoodie from this gorgeous sweathirt fabric. it makes me think of
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Not queen

Apr. 2nd, 2019 08:21 am
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 Well. Crown Tourney is over, and luckily I didn't become queen. I don't know my fighter well enough for that to be a god idea, even if it had been fun to win. But with some other person, someone I know well.

I was, as my friend Mistress Lia said: bouncy. I drank too much, hugged too many people, told too many people that I love them and generally had a very good time. Though I wonder how this old, hard-partying Eva came back from the (almost) dead.

Now my body, and my feet especially, are killing me, and it was hard to give two lectures yesterday.

I got very few photos of my nw gown being worn, but here are three:
















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And tonight I even made a hat for it.

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But the re-making of my red gown from 1998 will have to wait, because I really feel much more like making a modern dress from jersey with printed owls and rowan leaves and berries on it. And since I leave at 11 am on Friday I only have one evening to sew
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I still ahve trouble with my arthritis, but now a more "normal" genreal pain, rather than swollen joints (except the bones and tendons in my left foot). On Monday I will start working again, but I have started a little today with grading. I am so behind at work so it is less stressful to have some of that done. Actually I probably ought to be off work for another week, but that would make things very,very complicated with a few of the courses that I teach.

I can sew and read and I can take walks, but I have a hard time focusing on intellectual work and lecture planning because of pain.

Yesterday I had another SCA sewing meeting at home and it was really nice, even if there was a short while when I thought that some people were triggering each other into complaining about people in the SCA, so I tried to steer the conversation into a more constructive discussion about feelings, and I think that I was successful.

I also helped Mattias to cut out a red woollen surcoat and even did some sewing myself. I am reworking a gown that I made for Visby medieval week 1999 - my 15th century Visby :) 
 Photo of the folded gown, and of Kenya the cat )


I might wear it on St. Egon's Feast next weekend. I may even wear a mi-parti Gothic fitted dress from velvet that I made in 1998 for court, depending on if I have the time/inclination to fix the sleeves.

But I have also finished most of my new Saxon court gown, which I probably will wear at Spring Crown in three weeks time. This is how it looks without sleeves or brustfleck.

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The shopping: I also got up early-ish and took trams to another part of town to be there when a certain second hand market opened. Because just before I went to bed I saw that they had posted this chair on their facebook page, and I didn't want to miss it. Sicne it's foldable I could also take it with me on the tram home, but it took its toll on my sick body. Still worth it though.

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So, the doctor gave me prednisolone, which generally is very effective, and I started taking it yesterday morning. it's strong stuff though, so while it makes the arthritis better I also feel a little like I have a sinus infection, with the typical headache. But I am getting much better, my fingers are nearly normal, it's mostly my feet and my left knee that bothers me now. Today I could even use my brain for a while, reading and commenting on a friend's project description for an application for a PhD student position.

I have also started on the bodice for my 16th century Saxon court gown. I have cut out the bodice pieces and zig-zagged the velvet pieces. Because velvet.
I made the skirt in the autumn, but because I had no idea how my waist and tummy would be after my surgery I didn't start on the bodice. Now I feel confident that I won't have to make any large adjustments soon, if I make it now. The plan is to wear it to Spring Crown, which is the last weekend in March.

Skirt, just gathered with a belt:
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I have also covered my paper box in paper clay, pressed and sculpted shapes in the clay, let it dry and finally lacquered it. This is how the box looks:

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After I went to the hospital om Wednesday I used the little energy that I had left to go to a fabric store and get foam rubber, to line the box with (covered with fabric of course). And then I was so tired that I forgot it on the tram. Fortunately it was found and today Rickard went downtown to retrieve it from the lost items office.

I have now, after it was too late to use a sewing machine cut and shaped it to make a good protection for the coronet. It was a bit tricky, but I think that it will be fine. Or at least good enough. Tomorrow there will be fabric and glue.

Also tomorrow, best friend Inger and two women from our coven are coming over. Two will be making ritual robes, and one will be making her first medieval shift - since I am luring her into that other sect: the SCA.

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As you probably know I use my blogger-blog as a sort of web site. Because it was too much work to update my old web site. And lately I have been busy, endign up with pages for my:

a) late 18th century open robe

b) somewhat insane Italian 1330s outfit from striped brocade

c) brand new summer working outfit from 1370s Italy. With short sleeves!

d) Italian 16th century sottana from 2008-2009

c) mi-parti early 14th century Italian brocade gown.

I may even have a go at another "backlog" costume page today, we'll see.

I have , however, given 7 two hour long lectures as well as planning calsses and grading tests this week, so I am rather tired.
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My friend Jovi, a lady of the Rose (former queen in the SCA, in this case of Drachenwald), got the idea that the Ladies of the Rose should contribute more to the Double Wars event and decided to throw a party with rose theme.
That got me inspired and insane enough to make a 16th century Saxon Court gown which would have suited Barbie. In pink (synthetic) velvet and rayon brocade, both from my stash (the velvet was a gift many years ago).

I had about a week to make it, and I was really short on fabric, so it is a little bit shorter than I wanted. But at least it has no visible machine seams.

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Lots more photos in my 16th century Flickr album

Pies

Feb. 9th, 2018 11:35 pm
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 Work didn't go very well today, I made very little of the work I'm actually paid for, but i'm trying to be a good anarchist and not feel bad about that :)

Rickard and I did laundry however, and I have also made all the spinach and cheese pies for next weekend's SCA event. They are now in the freezer. Tomorrow I will make the dessert pies for the same event. After going to the gym and going shopping down town with Maja.

Rickard is away in Copenhagen over the weekend, to play X-wing.

Yesterday I finished taking in the yellow damask kirtle for my Margareta Leijonhufvud costume.





I won't be wearing this at the event since I will be spending most of it in the kitchen. It is also the event where Måns and I step down as baron and baroness, so I'll be wearing one of our matching shiny outfits for court and then change back into work clothes.

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This weekend started with working rather late in the afternoon on Friday, followed by celebrating Imbolc with my coven, and getting rather drunk. Quite intentionally, I needed that. Saturday I was a bit hung over so I didn't go to the gym in the morning. However, I did bake a birthday cake for Rickard, who turned 49, before heading out for some necessary shopping and pokemon hunting with Valeria and Rickard, and then on to the annual general meeting of Gotvik, the local SCA group. It was combined with silk banner painting, but I didn't have the time to spend all day thee. So I brought a small knitting project and hung out with people who painted for a couple of hours before the AGM started.

After the meeting I went home for dinner, and decorated the cake. Neighbour Anna came over and we ended up playing "Cards against humanity" (mine, and the twins' bithday present to Rickard) until half past midnight :)

Woke up late-ish, around 9.30 and had breakfast and went to the gym for an hour. After I got home (and had a bath) Valeria and I finally managed to get around to taking photos of her in her Eleonora di Toledo gown, which was finished in early December.

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I will make a page with documentation over at Eva's historical costuming blog, but not tonight, I am way too tired. Especially since after that short photo session we went to my sister's place to celebrate the birthday of the youngest niece (6). Then home, where I did some simple work on the photos, and then made dinner, which consisted of medieval lasagna, that is: home made pasta made from fermented dough, cooked in broth and layered with mozzarella and cinnamon and served. it is wonderful.

After that I knitted on Alfhild's stockings through a couple of episodes of Star Trek the Next Generation, but now I really need to go to bed.

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I haven't posted for ages (well, a week), I've been away from the computer a lot: sewing, knitting, celebrating full moon, taking long walks with hubby, hanging with friends, making the baronial newsletter etc.
Generally very good stuff.

I made a pair of 40s trousers on the day before Christmas eve and a blouse on New Year's day (photo below). I have also knit one pair of slippers for one of my coven members and started on a new pair for another. The partlet for Valeria's Eleonora outift was finished on New Year's Day, but she has had a bad cold and also mostly been at here dad's, so I haven't had the opportunity to photograph it on her. Hopefully that will happen this week.

The trousers and blouse.

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The inspiration for the blouse was this 1930s sewing pattern. I only had this image, but starting from an old, too large, blouse pattern, it wasn't too complicated to make a new pattern. Usueful thing to have also.

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I have also actually been working, writing on a grant application that is due on the 24th of January. I will ask you for input later, I depend on my native English speaking friends. Final corrections on an article for an anthology on sumptuary law was also done, but I need to write image captions - that will happen today, when I get back to work properly - actually going to the university, and actually openeing my e-mail.

Friday I decided that making new kitchen curtains was a good idea. I was going to dig out some fabric for a new 15th century velvet gown, but when looking for the velvet scraps I saw the cotton print that I bought this summer to make kitchen curtains, and since I don't change curtains very often I thought that it would be a good idea if they were finished when I take down the christmas curtains next Friday (the traditional time for taking down all christmas decorations in Sweden is the 13th of January).
So I made curtains.

But I also started on the bodice of the gown and finished the lacing holes on the bodice on saturday when I went with some friends to visit some other friends who live in the countryside, for sewing and socializing. The main purpose of that visit was that the next baron, Johan, really needed joined hose, since he's doing 15th century Italian. The current baron also need those so we all applied to the expertise of our friend Ida, who does landsknecht costuming. I had planned to learn by helping out with the pattern for Måns' hose, but in the end only Johan's hose pattern was made, so I ate cookies and sewed on my own stuff. Måns and I plan to return on the 20th to make his pattern. I want to make such hose for Rickard too, so this time I will have to be more involved so that I actually learn how to make them.

Yesterday I started planning the feast for St. Egon, but that will be another post. Now I probably should finish my cup of tea and get dressed and get to work.


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 More (and larger) photos and info in my costuming blog, but here's one photo of the finished hem.



I then did 20 minutes on my exercise bike and now I really ought to go to work. Still feeling slightly sick from the methotrexate, but that won't stop me lecturing of course.


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I got quite far on the article, but after six hours both my body and my mind said no, so I did the finishing touches on Valeria's embroidered camicia - one button and hemming the bottom edge.



Tomorrow I will first be out on the streets guarding against neo-nazis, who tried to march again last Saturday when I was in London, and then go to celebrate Samhain with my coven.  But Sunday I may have some time to cut out the lining for her silk satin Eleonora di Toledo gown so I can finally finish that too. If the article gets finished quickly.





Kntting

Oct. 14th, 2017 09:43 am
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I'm feeling a strong urge to start knitting again. I really shouldn't, however, because I have Valeria's embroidered sleeve to finish and it's 1/3 done and it would be so wonderful to have finished her camicia (enough to be wearable, I will add more embrodery over time). After finishing the sleeve I will line the skirt of her Eleonora gown and attach the skirt to the bodice - another long time project that would be lovely to have finished.

But after that I will knit something, a cardigan or a shawl probably.

I did some quick knitting this week however, I made this for Rickard:

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Then I made another one for a new friend, and comrade, because she liked it so much. It takes about four hours, so it wasn't such a big thing.
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So, what has happened the last week?

I made up for most of the lectures that I missed the week before due to illness. I was still rather ill up to Thursday Wednesday, but managed both a trip to another town with my students on Tuesday to look at the Bocksten bog man, and the rest of my classes.

I finished the embroidery on, and attached the first sleeve on Valeria's 16th century camicia. I have also started on the next sleeve.

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I have also taken in another of my too big skirts and started on a crushed velvet top.

Yesterday Sari, who was once my student, defended her PhD thesis excellently. I couldn't go to the party, because:

Rickard and I went to see the Jesus and Mary Chain play!!! It was awesome. It was a bit too intense to talk about, but I am filled by the experience still.

Today is Festivalo de Caderas, one of the barony of Gotvik's annual events. It started already yesterday, but I couldn't miss the Jesus and Mary Chain of course. I'm getting a ride with a friend and right now I'm sitting mostly dressed (shift, hair up, wool hose) waiting for her to arrive. I have made marzipan for the sweets table and I have packet coronet, scrolls, tokens, feast gear, prosecco and my embroidery - I should be just fine :)

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And turned, in this case, since the print really wasn't historical enough. Lots of images here



I've written a short blog post about Italian 15th century coifs here.



The photos are taken by the hospital next to where we live. 19th century architecture can apparently work well as background for Italian renaissance to
And after the photo shoot we raided at the gym there and I finally got an Articuno. Probably the only time someone played Pokémon Go in renaissance clothes around here.

In other news: The holiday was very nice, I bought 15 metres of cotton fabric: 5 metres for curtains in the kitchen (we have three windows, one rather large), 4 metres for a white late 18th century round gown, because obviously I need one of those. I have som printed chintz to use for an open robe over it, cotton broadcloth for a wrap skirt, since I only have one neutral knee length summer skirt that fits me. Patchwork hippie skirts, or ric-rac in abundance is fine, but sometimes you need something more neutral. I also got white, thin cotton broadcloth if I need to make another regency petticoat. Or something. And 2 metres of cotton wit a Halloween print that I hemmed on machine to make it a table cloth for our traditional Halloween dinner.

The first thing I did when we got home on Friday evening was to wash all the fabric and on Saturday I made that skirt.

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The blouse is another holiday find: The Salvation Army's 2nd hand shops have racks with blouses for 39 SEK (c. 4,7 dollars) and I bought this one, which is from H&M, and one that I don't think has ever been used, made from white linen.

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BTW, here are my holiday photos.

While on Holiday we went to a large, traditional market, where I got lots of cotton hankies, good quality bed sheets, some red and white striped piping, a heart shaped baking tin and two straw hats which will be partly unraveled and made into bonnets.

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Some of the fabric was bought at Tygladan, which is close to my home village, and some was bought at Kristinedals fabriker, which not only had lots of nice, cheap fabric, but also used to be a mill making both wool and cotton/linen yarn for weaving.

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This was when we visited our friends Kristina and Jonas, who just happened to have this in their barn :)

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I did some sewing while on holiday too: I hand sewed most of a new shift for Valeria, it's going to have embroidery at all the seams, and along the sleeves, so I can't add the sleeves until I've made that embroidery. I'm getting supplies for that today. And when I had done as much as I could on the shift I started embroidering on my regency gown again, and I think it will a) be finished for the picninc on the 2nd of September and b) be really pretty.
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Possibly. I may add another row of metallic braid around the edges of the gold trim.

Anyway, I have now sewn around all the edges of the gold trim with sewing silk. I have also made 46 lacing holes, half of them through both fabric and trim, as on the original. It wasn't as bad I thought that it woudl be.

So yThursday, at the Gotvik sewing meweting Valeria tried it on. She fluctuates a lot in weight, so it is a little big, but I don't know if I am going to take it in and inch or so (in total). I won't do it until we have tried it on with a full linen shift instead of a slinky t-shirt in any case.

I am also going to attach another lining on the inside so that the threads from sewing down the trim isn't visible, and that will also add some bulk.



As you can see it it s little long at the sides, but that will be remedied when I attach the skirt, in the back it looks just perfect.

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My work on Valeria's Eleonora di Toledo gown procedes slowly, but steadily. It does take time to stitch around all the edges of that trim. Thank the Gods that there are so many Drizzt Do'Urden audio books :)



Yesterday the brocade and lining for mine and baron Måns' new outfits finally arrived too.
Behind cut )

The plan is to finish these for Double Wars, in the end of May. However, I have plenty of stuff to do before that, so we'll see. Maybe Valeria's will be finished then too, though it isn't much of  a camping outfit.
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On Friday I started on a knitted flatcap/barrett. I used [livejournal.com profile] mmcnealy's pattern based on an Italian barrett from the wreck of the ship Gagiana.The pattern can be found on her web site for free!

It's very simple, and a quick knit. Since I was at an event most of the weekend I couldn't knit as much as I would have done at home (there was, after all, court to plan, and to hold :) ). And still I finished it Yesterday.

I used a worsted weight yarn bought cheaply at a supermarket some years ago and 4,5 mm needles (US #7). The barrett was fulled in the washing machine on 60 degrees Celsius.



I am extremely happy with it.
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It took one of my firends less than a minute to guess ;)

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