Award Winner: This Will Get You on SOMEONE's List...
Award Winner: The Keener (First to Submit an Entry)
Award Winner: In It for the Long Haul...

This is my surviving mandrake root. The rest I tried to grow were eaten by squirrels. I’m putting together a physick garden. This year I’ll be growing some more dangerous plants, but they’re going to be inside a large cage. I don’t want to kill off the wildlife.

Award Winner: Weaving Make You a Little Warped

My first time using that technique, half turns, made for inga

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Award Winner: Wordsmith.. When the Words Cut True

Last year, during one of the fund raises for helping to raise money for Newcomers, I taunted Her Majesty by arguing that Tacos were better than tiaras. It was a running joke during the reign, which she jumped on to keep the fun going. I was called into court and challenged to perform a work of art to "pay penance" for my transgression.

At the time my primary crafting skills were metalworking and woodworking. I gave serious thought to a number of fun options, but none of them seemed quite right. So instead, I decided I was going to really go all out. I devoted about two or three months of time to learning Old Norse poetry. This involved reaching out to several Laurels in other kingdoms to ask for information from their own classes they taught. The result below was my submission, the results of which would ultimately be getting recognized with my Award of Arms.

Old Norse poetry has a number of different styles. Skaldic poetry, Dróttkvætt, is the style which uses more Kennings, which is that characteristic word-play that uses allegory and metaphor to describe things. It also has some of the most strict rules, so while it would have been fun to try out it wasn't going to work for this project. The Eddaic poetry styles are more rustic, so I thought those a good place to start. There are a great many styles, but I'll stick to the ones which are relevant here.

Ljóðaháttr is one of these styles which is a delightful alliterative form. The stanzas are divided in two halves, together which are used to express a full idea. There is an additional style which uses the same rules with just a couple twists known as Galdralag. This one is known as the "magical meter" and is used when describing magic or its effects. There were some liberties taken with the poetry because the syllable count in Old Norse was based on their own language and it contains accenting breakdown which English simply doesn't have.

When careless words caused concern

My Queen, worried they were misplaced,

commanded I come before her court.

Patient, bid me explain myself

and to confess my patent lie

There I presented my plea

No tiara to wear on my brow

Nor title to draw some acclaim

These gentle joys I just don't know

But tacos were offered to me

Often have they filled my gut

Taco Tuesday treats me well

Her head shook in displeasure

At the folly my words displayed.

It hurt her heart to hear them.

Then she asked me pay a penance

With proof I had performed it

In some work of well-shaped wood

In a soothing, soulful song

Or any craft I might create

I offered her then my word

to produce some wondrous thing

Thinking no tiara could beat a taco

Perhaps I'd taunt her with my skill

Thought I as to my shop I skulked

Ready to trace a taco's shape.

Viðurr’s mind I can't capture

Such capricious fleeting lines

Long I labor lacking a graceful tongue

My carving tools will not cut true

Careless in my shaking hand

So I work with wasted effort

When in a flash it strikes me

My mind fills with new insight

the headwear makes her happy

Solemn wisdom then compels me

To say m y Queen does speak true

Her smile is simply stunning

And bright baubles bother none

So Tiara Tuesday Triumphs

Award Winner: Squirrel!!! (For Doing ALL the Things)
Award Winner: You're On Brand! (Continuation of your Craft)

Canopy Bed:
The red canopy and curtains for the bed were part of a December 2022 display called ‘Castle in the Swamp’ by the SCA Canton of Hrothgeirsfjordr at a local park’s Manor House, and is based on the painting ‘Birth of John the Baptist’ by Jan van Eyck, c1422. The colors used for the fringe are based on the colors from the clothing in the image, and were already available without additional purchases. I had a little over a month to research, design and make the red canopy bed coverings from the time we received the room assignment and discovered we had a canopy bed to incorporate into the whimsical display, to when we had to have everything in place for public access. Since we had so little time to pull the display together and very limited access before setup to take measurements in the display space, the measurements for the top were done on a different double bed and crochet was used for the baseline to attach the fringe.

Partway through making eight yards of fringe
Part way through set up
The Swamp side of the room for ‘Castle in a Swamp’

Writing:
So far, everything I’ve posted to Midbards and Friends (https://tilted-windmill.com/midbards/works.html#149 ) is a pandemic project piece and a new form of writing for me. A couple have been added since last September. The filked verses in ‘Health to Good Company’ have been presented to the people listed in the verses who are among the many hosts of the regularly occurring virtual performance spaces for 2020-2021. The song does not include nearly enough verses yet to thank everyone, and there are verses ready for a Part 2 once the hosts have gotten their personal verses. On that note, ‘Mute me in the Bardic’ was not written with any specific occurrences in mind, but may be familiar to many participating in the virtual gatherings.

Song:
My translation and arrangement of the ‘Drowning of Ker-Ys’ still needs some work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNq-65uzYtc&list=PLCT-9Ovwzyj-7hJWbLtFoXbnIlTnDvGJa&index=32&t=128s

Tunics:
One of several tunics I made for family during a spurt of sewing from 2021 to January 2022

Follow up from Round 1:
The ink from the previous round has been bottled, given to be largesse or gifted to local scadians to use.
And I used some of the ink to practice dip-pen calligraphy of various hands using a C4 nib, and doodle architecture and landscapes based on the Utrech Psalter. Drawing is not something I do much, and drawing with a dip pen is new for me.

Award Winner: CelebrAsian

Drawn like taffy from a pot, then blown or pulled into form, amezaiku has been fascinating the Japanese public ever since its first introduction in the Heian period (Tsuji, 2007). Sugar was imported from China during the earlier Nara period along with the traditions of the sugar people, folk artists and craftspeople. Due to the scarcity of sugar, early examples of amezaiku were used as offerings at temples. These examples are of the pulled sugar variety, as blowing sugar didn't become popular until the Edo period.

I used a reference from a pharmacist's guide to Japan to create the mizuame ("water candy") used in amezaiku and heated it until the consistency was thick enough to pull. The molten sugar was difficult to handle with bare hands, so it took several attempts to get to the correct temperature where the sugar was still malleable without being too hot to hold.

Award Winner: For Better or for Purse

The object is a harp framed purse of the 15th century ad was common on both the continent and in England. The frame is pewter and was purchased as a purse frame kit made by Billy & Charlie. Their instructions were followed for the purses construction. Outer fabric is silk satin that I dyed a deep indigo using commercial dyes from Dharma Trading Company. The lining fabric is commercially available linen pre-dyed from the manufacturer in a nice mustard yellow from Fabrics-Store.com. Tassels were handmade made from modern cotton embroidery floss. The whole of the purse was sewn by hand using 100% cotton thread that was commercially dyed in matching blue for the outer and yellow for the inner. Tools used include modern pins and sewing needles, various modern scissors and measuring devices, water soluble fabric pencils, natural beeswax, my homemade leather thimble, and a modern iron.

At some point this project will be repeated with more period accurate materials, tools, and perhaps methods. Documentation for that project will be much more in depth and more closely aligned with standard A&S Faire entry parameters.

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Award Winner: Not to be Weft Out

This is an in-progress image of one of two pieces of trim that I wove and gave as gifts to the baron and baroness of the Barony of Thor's Mountain in Meridies.

Award Winner: Oh Where or Where Has My Little Scribe Gone?
Award Winner: Be Still my Beating Art...

During the time of Covid some lovely folk in Ealdormere have been running an online portrait painting session. It’s been a bit of a lifeline on occasion during lockdowns, and especially since I wouldn’t be able to attend in person as I now live in the Kingdom of Lochac. Many thanks to those who have continued to run it through the last couple of years.

This is a portrait from the March 2022 session, of Kitta Mjoksiglandi. It’s oil on canvas board. Modern commercial paints and modern alla prima technique, but in the style of a period portrait.

Award Winner: Bunny Goes Hop

I made the stamps on my laser and printed this 100% linen Coptic tunic. The original was woven but I do not weave and took the opportunity to try to recreate this as much as I could with printing on fabric.

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Award Winner: Dancing to Your Own Beat

Asian dance tends to tell stories, while European dancing is much more pattern-based. However, stories can also be woven from European dances; be they French, Italian, or English.

Recently, I created a hybrid recorded class to teach Storytelling Through Dance. Through it, I discovered how to use Microsoft Powerpoint to create videos. I also found a place in my apartment complex to record some outdoor footage.

Youtube link for the recorded class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAPIisr97B4

Award Winner: Deb-archery and Excess (Which We Fully Support)

I learned to fletch! I've done a lot of arrow repair over the years to help out with kids' archery, but this past fall and winter I've learned to assemble and test arrows from parts. It's been a ton of fun, and I've had the invaluable assistance of Conan of Myrgan Wood. Between the two of us, we've managed now to make 6 full sets of a dozen arrows, with 2 more in progress and 5 more waiting on parts.

I've had these chance to start talking to a couple from a neighbouring small town who own turkeys, and with their help I'm in the process of being able to bring hand-cut fletchings to the table for the next sets!

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Gift set for Robert the Barkeep
Myrgan Wood's new group arrows
Robert's arrows drying next to an experimental hand-dyed fletched arrow
Arrows hanging to dry after sealing
A finished set of personal arrows
A finished set of Nibbe of Myrgan Wood's arrows
The first 3 "oh wow, i think we can actually do this" dozens
An arrow resting in a fletching jig
3 dozen shafts ready for tips and fletchings

Award Winner: The Fount of Knowledge

During the Age of Covid, I had a baby. My creativity has felt stifled so I turned to what I find relaxing--finding amazing resources on amazing topics. My "A&S" isn't pretty in the way other items are. Instead, I have done resource lists.

LGBTQIA+ In Period
Disability Studies in SCA period
Diversity and Ethnicity in Europe pre-1600

Putting together resource lists gave me a virtual tour of recent scholarship on these topics.

Award Winner: Ludo Mentis Verba
Award Winner: There's a First Time for Everything
Award Winner: Populace Choice (Runner-up)

My entry is an illuminated fealty oath (link here to documentation: https://kaloethina.wordpress.com/2022/01/12/illuminated-fealty-oath/) featuring a new process that I learned. It's a hand-dyed piece of pergamenata with a text I had modified myself, with Latin translation provided by Master Andrixos Seljukroctonis.

Award Winner: Taking Your Re-enactment too Seriously (No Really, we didn't need the plague, ;) )

I'll play! Here's a picture of my Plague doctor coin I made to commemorate the Covid pandemic.

Everyone in the SCA likely knows about the Plague Doctor and his mask. To commemorate this historic event, where we actually got to have a plague as part of the SCA, I made coin dies to strike this coin. I used as my model an actual plague doctor mask made for Duke Styrkarr by Master Ugo Serrano. The reverse shows a model of the Covid-19 virus with the Legend reading: "CORONA PESTILENCE 2020. The stars represent people we have lost to the plague. This is a groat-sized coin, about the size of a US Quarter, but considerably thinner.

Award Winner: Squirrel!!! (For Doing ALL the Things)
Award Winner: Because Giving is Divine (Largesse)

Life in the times of plague... Over plague I've been working on a bunch of things that have been in my head and not made manifest. For a program I was part of I needed to provide largesse to the barony and chose to make hnefatafl game sets with handwoven wool boards and glass bead pieces.
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I also needed largesse for the principality so friend got her AoA and I jumped on making the scroll for that based on a page from the book of Durrow.
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For myself I've been rocking the loose Vikings but wanted to have something fitted, so I asked a plague friend and she helped me pattern it.
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Lastly we left the brewers alone for a long time so I did a brewing experiment took a barrel, filled it with bourbon for a couple months, took that out then filled it with maple syrup, took that out and filled it with mead, then left it until one morning when the barrel failed over a year later. The light one is the mead that didn't go through the barrel, the dark one went through and is delicious.
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Award Winner: This is OUR Kind of Crazy!

I made these coronets for their excellencies Conner and Eilidh of Dragons Laire. They are made of brass, silver and cultured pearls.

I learned repoussé, stamping to make decorative wire and how to cut metal with a cold chisel in order to make these.

I also had to learn how to pattern and size the coronets. These were my first coronets.

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Award Winner: Re-creational Artist
Award Winner: This One Left Us Speechless

German collar inspired by Lucas Cranach's "Portrait of a Young Lady"

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Award Winner: Don't Make a Lyre Out of Me
Award Winner: There's a First Time for Everything

I learned to carve during the plague. This is my first project, almost done!

I also did some embroidery, applique, and learned the basics of German slash & puff
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Award Winner: Re-creational Artist
Award Winner: There's a First Time for Everything

I would like to enter the work I've been doing to recreate a custom pair of blue-and-white cotton Egyptian stockings. These are often referred to as Mamluk stockings, but the name belies recent belief by scholars that the stockings are from an earlier era, likely the 11th or more likely the 12th century. There are several extant examples of stockings with blue and white stranded patterning that are demonstrably knit in the round (vs. knit flat and seamed or naalbound), usually from cotton.

I am a seasoned knitter, but have not undertaken stranded colorwork previously, must less stranded colorwork in the round, which adds an extra layer of complexity due to the need to maintain proper tension (or really lack of tension) in the "floating" strands of yarn that are carried along the back of the work. Because stockings need to stay somewhat stretchy in order to fit over the ankle but not then fall down and slouch, proper elasticity and tension are challenging. Therefore, in order to prepare to make the final pair (which I will chart the design for based on my gauge in the yarn that is eventually selected to fit the recipients foot and the stitch count for the charted patterns I want to work in), I started by working to both increase my experience with flat stranded colorwork knitting and with stranded colorwork knitting in the round.

I worked first to finish a bag with stranded colorwork patterning that was knit in the round, but with the intent for each face to lie flat. The attached photo shows the final bag, before the ends are woven in. The surface needs some repair as there are dropped stitches that if not caught will create holes in the surface. The pattern is from the Sipalu kit available from KnitPicks.

I also worked a version of the blue-and-white stocking based on a pattern created by Nancy Bush in her book Folks Socks. In order to meet the gauge of the pattern, the stocking was knit in thicker weight wool than I will eventually be working for the finished stocking (which will be neither wool or the period-correct cotton, but more likely a bamboo blend to increase durability while retaining the look and crispness of cotton). Like with the bag, there are several dropped stitches in the stocking that, if worn, would eventually unravel.

Nancy Bush's pattern is written for cuff down stockings, but I believe the extant examples may have been knit toe-up, so I have also started to experiment with toe-up cast ons that would allow for the star toe pattern commonly seen in extant examples. I am also working to get comfortable knitting on two circular needles (instead of five double pointed needles) in hopes it will reduce the number of dropped stitches. I will continue to practice techniques and try new yarns until I feel I can confidently create a finished pair of stockings to the standards of the recipient (who will also get the practice stockings that are finished and deemed fit to wear).

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Award Winner: This One's to Dye For!
Award Winner: Dragon!!! (For Having the Patience to do One Big Thing)
Award Winner: In it for the Long Haul...

During the plague times, I've been doing a lot of dye work. Reading about dye work, teaching about dye work and actually making pretty colours. I've got three projects that I've been working on recently.

Water Survey

In late 2021, I had a hare brained scheme to request water samples from all over Ealdormere (and beyond!) to do a selection of dye baths that would illustrate the variation that could be obtained while only changing one variable, the water. This continued a deep dive into madder dyeing, one that I do not expect to ease anytime soon. I plan to include the in depth examination of the results on my blog over the coming weeks, but this is a preview of what we got from 60 dye samples. The map is a rather stylized map of a portion of Ealdormere (mundanely the province of Ontario, Canada)

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Madder species comparison

While i had all of the dye things out for the water survey exploration, I decided to look at two madder species that are the most common to purchase modernly. Rubia tinctorium (Dyer's madder, common madder, European madder) and Rubia cordifolia (Munjeet, Indian madder). There are quite a number of species within the Rubia genus that function as dye plants, and each has their own unique combination of dye molecules within the plant itself. The other plant commonly assumed to be used in period is Rubia peregrina (Wild madder), but it is not available for purchase, so I couldn't compare it. (If anyone reading this knows of a source, please let me know.). R. tinctorum primary dye molecules are alizarin and pupurin and R. cordifolia primarily contains munjistin, pseudopupuin and purpurin. I was curious about how the colours would continue to differ over a series of exhaust baths, so ultimately took 5 soakings from each quantity of plant material.

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Award Winner: Gold(enrod) Star!

I recently finished spinning this Shetland wool, dyed with goldenrod. It will become a knitted child's tunic that's based off a painting from 1400-1410.

Award Winner: Hornstraumr Hrimnis (The Horn-Stream of Hrimnir)

Over the past year I have been taking the first steps into the world of the Old English language. I have taught a class on basic pronunciation and have started taking a several month course on the language itself. I have also, at various University Events throughout the Known World, taken several classes related specifically to Alliterative Verse form poetry. At one of these classes, I was challenged to create an entry for a poetry contest at an event in Atlantia in October of this past year. From that challenge, Hærfest was born.

Hærfest is a visitation of the Autumnal season in verse form as told from the perspective of an early English person during the centuries just prior to the Norman invasion of the 11th century. To the early English people, autumn would be a bittersweet season, comprised of both great joy – assuming a bountiful harvest - and at the same time great trepidation at the coming cold dark days and uncertainty of long winter months ahead. I have tried to highlight both feelings within my verses. In addition, I have attempted to touch on topics of kinship, family bonds, death, and the joys of the feast-hall (in this case shifted to the village feast) – some themes which seem to feature strongly in early English poetry.

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Award Winner: A Little Weft of Crazy
Award Winner: There's a First Time for Everything...

Prior to Covid I had purchased a 2 shaft table loom in need of repair thinking that I'd love to learn how to weave. I have friends who are amazing weavers and I loved the idea of being able to create my own fabric. It turns out I didn't have time in my schedule to really devote to both repairing the loom and figuring out how to weave.

2 years later, in the fall of 2021, I was finally feeling like I could actually dedicate myself to learning new things and I began to teach myself how to weave. I absolutely fell in love. My first project was a pair of Norse leg wraps woven from 100% merino wool that I dyed with logwood (the completed project image is also after washing, so some of the vibrancy of the dye was lost). Then I moved immediately on to weaving with silk, which had its own challenges, but I loved the results (pictures 3-5 are of handkerchiefs done in both An Tir and Tir Righ colours).

I have further plans to try weaving in cotton and linen, plus I just picked up a four shaft loom so I can try more complicated patterns!

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Award Winner: Subtlety Delicious

This was done during Covid for EK Coronation. A subtletie centerpiece featuring His Majesty's heraldry in 3D form, which I made out of white chocolate (by his request).

Award Winner: The Kitten Saviour Award (Those Kittens Need Their Mittens)
Award Winner: There's a First Time for Everything...

During the plague I decided to learn Nailbinding. So I collected books, videos, zoom classes, and materials then started the task of learning. I created many samples and my first project was mittens. I used a variegated homespun.

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Award Winner: Marked "Safe" from Vampires
Award Winner: In it for the Long Haul...

This began as a quest for the perfect garlic to suit my lord husband's taste and hunt for the ideal "Ginger-Garlic Chicken". As he is new to complex recipes, and averse to following recipes, my part was to supply the garlic.

Garlic turned out to be a multi-year project.

I have grown garlic in the past, with cursory attention paid to soil amendments and, sad to say, watering requirements. The variety was whatever was handy.

In the fall of 2019, I snagged several varieties of garlic from our local garden shop, and planted a 4' x 8' patch. Supplements were manure, and watering was consistent.

The harvest of 2020 was decent, without any issues, and producing reasonable size bulbs. Sadly, I used wood plant labels, so I lost whatever record I had of the varieties.

Then I was given a recipe for amending the soil. After much measuring and mixing, and turning the soil one last time, I bought new -named- varieties, all eight of them, and planted in the fall of 2020.

Watering might've been a bit erratic (my failing again), but the crop was excellent, with well-filled bulbs. I lifted them carefully, and sorted them into trays with their labels. We have been eating our way through 128 bulbs, in order of how firm they feel. The Nootka Rose definitely keeps the longest! A couple of varieties did not keep as well, so I dropped those names from the list.

In the fall of 2021, I selected out the best of the best, and added three new varieties. I amended the soil again, because I run a four-year rotation. The garlic patch is now 4' x 9', and growing well through its mulch of composted manure, as you see.

We still have not agreed on the best garlic for his purposes. Yet.

a bulb that was not topped, and allowed to grow fully. The door is 6'4"
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Award Winner: Re-creational Artist
Award Winner: A Stitch in Time

This is part of one of the panels from the “Lady of the Unicorn” tapestry that hangs in the Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris, France. The tapestry is from the later half of the 15th century to the 1st quarter of the 16th century. It was acquired in the late 1800’s and has been restored many times over the years.

This piece is from the fifth panel in a series of six, and the complete set is considered one of the great masterpieces of western art of the time. It is believed that these six tapestries represent the five senses against a detailed red background. The sixth sense is only explained by an inscription “À mon seul désir” which has provoked countless theories.

It is considered a ‘millefleurs” tapestry because of its abundance of flora. It also shows the heraldic arms of the Le Viste family.

This recreation was done using cross stitch and when finished I finished it off with weighted cording and a linen backing and linen hangers attached to a hanger that I made with finials and stained. This piece was auctioned off this past fall for the East Kingdom travel fund.

The original panel that this is taken from

Award Winner: Populace Choice
Award Winner: A Stitch in Time

In December 2020, King Jason gave a challenge to the people of Ansteorra to create a portrait in any medium of Queen Margherita, submitted in two weeks. I waffled for about four days. I had done some embroidery but never of a person. Finally, with only 10 days left, I decided to give it a try! I recruited the help of a friend convert the photograph of Her Majesty into a “cartoon” line drawing that I could trace onto linen. I corresponded regularly with another friend, a Laurel, who was known for her fine embroidery. She gave me lots of advice and encouragement. Over the course of 10 days, I finished the portrait. Not being a scribe or other kind of free-hand artist, I learned that faces are HARD. I also learned the importance of the direction of one’s embroidery when trying to create texture. The portrait was embroidered with cotton thread on linen, with glass seed beads for additional decoration.

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Award Winner: For Better or For Purse
Award Winner: There's a First Time for Everything...

During Covid, I worked on knitting. I learned about period materials and technique. I learned more about the process that results in my own yarn: shearing, cleaning, carding, dying, spinning, plying. Here is an example of what I learned, including tassels. I used wool and cotton, some of which I spun myself, and size 5 circular needles. In period, 1mm metal needles were used, but I didn't have any then. My inspiration comes from 9th to 12th century Islamic countries.
My next project was with size 1 density, using variegated yarn. I have plans for another bag using all period materials in the near future

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Award Winner: Yes, Bribery WILL Get You Places

Taliesin Wordeweaver has learned to celebrate the Mundane foundations of our lives, and take her poetry less seriously. She dedicates this little filk to Li Xia, our eternal Ethereal Host.

To the tune of Mo Li Hua, or "Jasmine Flower",

I should complete an A&S project

I should take a moment to reflect

Organize my old linen and check

Before I buy more garb fabric

But this wool is on a clearance sale

I really want a silk head veil

This buy one get one deal will end today

Hoarding supplies is how I choose to play

I should complete an A&S project

I should take a moment to select

Which of my hobbies will have to end

My crafting supplies will last till I'm dead

Calligraphy is such a huge time sink

I really want this oak gall ink

These brushes are made with real goat hair

I've got some now? I really do not care

I should complete an A&S project

I should take a moment to reflect

Organize my supplies and check

Before I start my A&S projects

Audio and video recordings to be availible shortly at http://tilted-windmill.com/uploads/151-lyric-AS_Project_filk_of_Mo_Li_Hua.html

Award Winner: The "Drengr" (Old Norse, go Google it ;) )

During the last year I have been able to turn my Garage into a woodshop. Previously I have experience with wood working but the best I had was lighter more portable tool. . With that I was excited to be asked to create and build a new Kingdom regalia in the form of a Toy chest for the Kingdom of Avacal. From sketching out a design, to acquiring wood and processing it to just remembering how to use tools that I hadn’t for used for 20 years the learning process has been fun. The Toy box is made from Aspen wood with Mahogany panels and the Corner columns are African mahogany. I used the aspen with stile and rail construction to help give strength but also cut done on weight with the 1/8” paneling. I used a mitered corner to butt join the sides together then used the corner columns to help give those strength. I chose the handles I did as they had the ability to be tied down. The Dimensions the of the chest were a little weird to figure out as I made the entire chest to fit in the indent of a standard Rubbermaid bin lid making it more stable when traveling, packing or just storage. I used a more modern finish it should be fairly water and liquid resistant but also can be touched up a lot easier then period ones.

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