#scablr

[the-merry-otter]

Sometimes I see people tagging my posts with stuff like “I wish I could do reenactment/join the SCA” and I have to fight the urge to pop into their inbox unsolicited going “YOU CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN, DO YOU WANT HELP?”

Because I always feel like the iffy stranger in a long coat sidling up to a kid in an alley … “hey kid, you want a hobby?” xD

HOWEVER if anyone wants to start reenactment but you have Questions, please feel free to reach out to me!! I can’t always give you the best *local* advice, but I’m more than willing to talk you through clothing, activities, how to find and contact a group, what to expect, and all the other scary stuff about joining a group.

Plus, some of my favourite things to talk about is reenactment and the SCA - you’ll be doing me a favour i promise 😝

[yaninus-de-venoix]

went to Rose & Thorn over the weekend! it's a new(ish) SCA event focused on women and gender minority fighters! (this was the second year it's happened, I went last year as well)

lots of cool classes and panels. the tourneys were restricted to only women and gender minority fighters, though plenty of other folks showed up for pickup fights and classes and whatnot as well. it was bigger this year, 2 days instead of 1, with some instructors coming in from out of kingdom.

I love having a space of our own 💚

[aesa-draumspakr]

Made a puffy linen shirt following the video by Bernadette banner, ft. An unfinished image when I desperately threw it on because I was proud of my sewing

[eosvartauga]

Just an aesthetic inspiration post with inspiration and research I am putting together for my Kingdom A&S entry, a full early 16th century German "Courtier's" Outfit

[aesa-draumspakr]

Okay it's been some time but I made this kidney pouch as a Kris Kringle gift for a member of my (SCA) household, and it wasn't without tribulations.

Tribulations and *the process* continued under the cut

So I used the pattern from Dark Horse armoury (which is great, highly reccomend. I'll link it if someone asks)

What I didn't account for was how much of the vege tan leather I had left. So I had to print the pattern multiple times at different scalings to see what fit with the leather I had, but! I persevered.

Next came punching all the holes, I used the smallest drive punch I had for all the stitching holes and crouched on the concrete of the garage for hours tapping away and slowly eroding my cutting mat (I have a punch block now, this whole project was made in desperation)

But alas! Tragedy struck

When I bent and then snapped my punch most of the way through! But ingenuity provides and I continued by using some jewellery pliers.

With that out the way, then came stitching.

This went pretty smoothly all things considered, I even managed to watch a whole season of the vox machina animated show on a friend's reccomendation

And that's it! This was a very "step 1: draw a circle, step 2: draw the rest if the owl" walk through of myself making a kidney pouch

[aesa-draumspakr]

Am I a fool, a silly little jester, who forgot to take progress pics properly? Yes. But here we are! The finished sleeves of a German Hemd!! Just the collar and final assembly to go!

[aesa-draumspakr]

So uh, executive functions a bitch hey? Anyways, here's the long overdue 'fit reveal of my Wams and Hose (the pink and green fabric from this post, with the original idea being this) and my Hemd.

So this outfit is around 16th century German, and on the simpler side of Landsknect. All the pieces are made of linen (except for the tights, they're just ballet tights I ordered online), and the cord was braided by both myself and a friend.

Patterning the hose (shorts) was a very, um,, intimate experience... In order to make the pattern some old tights were sacrificed, I stood very still, and was mummified in duct tape. As you can see, they fit quite well, and the short inseam gives me quite a considerable range of motion

The wams (top) are attached at the front and back centre by ties. I'll eventually add more attachment points on the side I think, but for festival they held up spectacularly.

Overall I'm very happy with them, I missed my colour goals slightly, but also they're just the cutest watermelon palette >:)

[aesa-draumspakr]

So y'all remember that free leather I got from this post? Yeah I've started making it into clothes...

(Ehehehehe I'm wearing a couch!! >:D)

Got this Jerkin pattern from a friend, luckily we're around the same size so alterations weren't too hard. Still got a little bit to go, and I'm thinking of slashing and pinking it, but progress!!