Mary Ostler

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Decided to pull out the old loom. I was going to sell it to Mistress Agnes, but at the last minute choose not too. I don’t have room for a floor loom at the moment,  so the $20 Value Village find will have to sufice.
There is an amazing web site call Handweaving.net that has a mind [...]

The carnage the comes with a 3 and 1 year old going mental over over-consumerism has come and gone. Despite my demand that people stop buying me stuff, and spend the money on the two kids, I did manage quite the haul.

Uber happy over my new set of mortise chisels. I have a very cheap and nasty set [...]

Well thank goodness that is done. The seat is finished and ready to go. I still have to make a table top, but their is no rush on that as the chair is the present.

Weaving the seat with paper rush was harder than I thought ti would be. The top side looks really nice, but [...]

Well the unthinkable has happened. I am once again an officer.
The Baron and Baroness (with seneschal in tow ) have unwisely given the post to me.
I don’t know how well of a job I will do, but I am pretty sure I will live up to the reason why they gave me the job over [...]

The finish line is in sight.  All I have left is a little bit of light sanding (where the clamps where used) a once over with more wipe-on poly urethane, and weave the seat. My mom asked if I was making any thing for her this year. I couldn’t help myself but burst into laughter.

This [...]

The Long an plodding road continues with Emily’s Highchair. I am getting tired. I will be glad when I finally get to finishing this chair. I am actually rather excited about doing the reed seat on the chair.

The arms are shape kind of like an exclamation point. I walked around the house menacing people with the club.

The [...]

A little more done on the Highchair. It would have been more, but I was so cold I realized I was starting to shake while using the lathe. Not good.

I cut a board down to squared spindles. The four spindles that will have the reed seating strung over are boring 3/4″ dowels.

The lower spindles that circle the [...]

Got a bit more done on the highchair.

The barley twist and fluting is finally finished. Its a pretty good match, although the foot profile is different from the front to back legs. Once they are not so close to each other, it will hardly be noticeable.

This was the most difficult part so far. Trying to figure [...]