Tasks update

Well... nearly at the 6 month point and how are my tasks going?

Heavy fighting at the hall: Recent events have led me to re-evaluate this task... I may not end up doing it. I may have to redo it just to focus on my own fighting levels both in heavy and rapier? hard to explain without going into details... but fighting at the RH hall is certinally not a priority to me anymore.

Tzar Jacket: Not going to bad on this one... still in the research phrase but at least have found a Turkish jacket pattern simular to the one I wanted which they would have used back in the day as well. Could still make it in time for GNW2011... which now I am co-steward for :)

Household Tasks for 2011-2012

Well...
GNW has been and gone, and I have a whole new set of household tasks.

1) Get training happening in River Haven again:
In the last year or so Heavy Training has dropped off to a point where it does not exist in RH at the hall on Wednesday nights. What this means is that the flow on effect is that there is no new fighters as they don't see any training going on. So... my plan is to get this happening again. I step down as Seneschal in September (YEAY) so my goal will be to get training happening again.

First plan is to publish that I will be in armour on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, and the 4th Sunday at the hall. I have spoken to a few fighters and they agree that they will be there too for these dates. once that is happening I will throw another week day and another sunday into it, then sooner or later hopefully we will have armoured people at the hall again. It's a throey anyhow.

2) Tzar Jacket:
I saw a long time ago a Russian Jacket that had lots of embroidery all over it. Looked great but been finding it hard to find evidence that it existed. One issue with Russian is that there is VERY little evidence as it was all wiped out when one country or another invaded and destroyed all the records etc. So this goal has several sides to it... research and document the jacket, make the jacket, embroid the jacket. All goes well... I will wear it to the household meeting next GNW.

Another Hat post

Well... decided to try something different with a new hat for a mate. He gave me a nice black Burgundian jacket which I can use as it's intended, or Russian style as well.

So... his colours are Black, Red and White, and I wanted to use all of them in the hat. I could have done a red hat, with white embroidery and black fur, but thought to try something different.

I ended up doing some embroidery on some black strips, then sewed them down onto the seams where I would normally do the embroidery, and added some black fox fur.

Quite happy with the result, and suits him well as he doesn't have a Viking persona, but a Russ one so it works better for him than it would a Viking. All in all I am very happy with it, and he absolutely loves it.

More hats!

Hey hey,

Been a little while since I posted last... sorry about that.

Ok... been making some more hats of late... playing with different patterns and having fun.+

Made this one for a mate (Buzz) who has just had a Mongol coat made for him. His coat was the tan/cream colour with dark brown highlights, so I did the opporsite. He wanted the inside out mongol style but not the peak. I made this one to start with, and then tried a different pattern which got rid of the peak. He was very happy with the result.

quite happy with how this one turned out, but found that I need to add about another half inch or more to the end of the pattern to make it come down the head a little more as this one sits more on top than over the head.

Ok... made this hat for Sue as a thankyou for the wool for the hat above as I could not find any tan/cream wool and she gave me some. Tried a new sewing technique with this one which was

sewing three panels togeather, sewing another three panels togeather, then sewing the two halfs togeather. That plus a slightly different sewing style and the peaks

came out perfectly meeting in the middle of the hat. It ended up being REALLY neat and I am quite proud of this one.

Really like the way it came out, the colours matched togeather well which even includes the speckled brown colours in the fur. Alltogether quite happy with this hat as is the new owner :)

Lastly this is a hat I made for the new Canton of Stegby in River Haven to help them. They are fund raising to get some funds in their new bank account, so Bec has made a doll for them, and I made them up a hat. they are going to raffle them off to see how that goes.

Same as the hat above, did the new technique when sewing the panels and it came out perfect again. Really loving that new way now.

so... what am I working on now? Got a pattern in my head which I am going to have a play with before it annoys me too much... will post (eventually) when I am done.