Mary Ostler

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I recently got back from a house sitting stint. I always enjoy house sitting due to the fact I can cook whatever I want. While on this last gig, I tried my hand at making soft cheese. It was easy, tasty , and worth the effort. I liked making it enough I decided to make [...]

I have the cartoon, I have a loom, I have the right amount of hedles (my order arrived a couple of days ago). Now I have to figure out how much material I will need to complete the rug, and how much of each color I will need to hand dye. Determining how much was [...]

I  had wanted to finish this tent in time for Tir Righ Investiture at the end of August. I am now confident that I will be able to do a test run at SYGC this weekend. This works out better, as I will have a chance to work out some bugs before investiture. I will [...]

I was able to day trip earlier this year to the Barony of Seagirt’s annual Daffodil tourney. I posted about the event, but have had this post sitting in the draft folder for months. Its just a series of images of some of the art the Seagirtians had kicking around the site. I had a [...]

I finished the 18ft of  unravelling canvas. What a pain. My Fingers are numb. It will look awesome, but I highly encourage everyone to skip this step and just sew the canvas directly to the wooden hangers.

I need a new tent. I have postponed my building of the Timurid Disked Bell for the time being, and moved on to making a new Bedouin tent. This time I am building one based on the style of tent found in the Northern Algerian regions. In “Tents: Architecture of the Nomads” by Torvald Feagre there is a [...]

The first incarnation of  Tournament of Armies happened this weekend. I was rolled into the welcoming embrace of the Clan MacAndrew war band. Led by the Clan Warleader Caemgen (who happens to be the only heavy fighter in the clan) the clan did amazingly well.  With a good band of mercenaries heavies, rapier fighters, Artisans,  to supplement the MacAndrew [...]

I am going to buy the canvas for the new tent tomorrow. Its a little last minute, but thought I’d let you decided on what color I should make the tent out of. The most common color for this tent was white with blue or red designs on the outside. There are several images of [...]