TalkingFox » costuming http://www.talkingfox.com The artist speaks ... Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:19:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How did THAT happen??? http://www.talkingfox.com/2009/07/how-did-that-happen/ http://www.talkingfox.com/2009/07/how-did-that-happen/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:44:35 +0000 Siobhan http://www.talkingfox.com/2009/07/how-did-that-happen/ I’ve recently decided to get reacquainted with the Society for Creative Anachronism. The SCA is a sort of medieval recreation group for those of you not familiar with it.
I was involved with the SCA many decades ago and haven’t gon to any events in several decades. Needless to say, my old costumes have fallen by the wayside and I decided I needed some new kit for my husband and I.

What started out as a simple Dark Ages  mans tunic ended up as a 4 gore,  inset underarm gusset tunic that’s about 4 yards around the bottom with approximately 20 yards of piping and 10 yards of tablet weaving that had to be top stitched . And I don’t sew well….

It turned out looking fairly nice as all the ornamentation sort of distracts from the little flub ups here and there.

Only 2 Gowns, 2 more tunics and 2 pairs of trews to go. Before the end of the month that is.
Ah well, as I’ve always said, anything worth doing is worth obsessing over.

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