Mary Ostler

I decided to weave some grey wool. It was stuff we had stored in a box in the cupboard for years. I believe its 3 strand/size 4 thread (could be wrong though). The width of the warp is around 11″‘s I think my reed is a little to tight for this thickness of wool Waiting [...]

Got me a new toy today. a 24″ 4 shaft Leclerc loom. Chewed the lady down enough to cover the cost of a reed as it is missing that one part. The best part of that is…I have plans on trying to make my own using only stuff from my shop. New project = Win. [...]

Did a bit more weaving for pouches. I decided to play around with the blue thread warp pattern. I learn best from mucking about till the proverbial light-bulb goes off. I like this pattern, but it really curved up badly when cut of the loom. I am hoping once its sewn as a pouch it will behave a [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Baroness’ Birthday tourney took place yesterday. It was a smallish event, but still covered all the basics. Rapier, and Heavy fighting, A&S contests, dancing, feasting, drinking, court, and merchant row. I ran a small merchanting booth selling wooden goodes (turned stuff and furniture). Since I spent most of my time merchanting, and hanging out with [...]

The one good side to having broken ribs, is I have a lot of down time. Normally I live out in the shop just puttering around listening to CKNW. Since shop life is depressing without the abilty to pick up a tool, I have spent the time watching old movies and hand sewing my turkish [...]

I am broke beyond all measure this month. I have had to use what I have inside the fabric stash to work on my Turkish garb. Hence the somewhat nasty green/gold sari material shalvar.  Since I will be making nicer ones once I am back in the black, I have used elastic in this pair. [...]

I am attempting to make myself some new garb. I have been wearing mens English late period since I started in the SCA. I started with mens clothing because of my extraordinary ability to trip on the hems of skirts even if the hem is well higher than my ankles. Time has come for a [...]

Its my nephews 3rd birthday coming up in ~ 2 weeks time. I decided to make him a Norse tent to play in. Image heavy post follows