Makepeace McEvoy - Music Everywhere

It's laid out in columns separated by dotted lines, rather than boxes. Lots of text and small but clear diagrams.

Top-ology

Right now I'm in the middle of making my first Verdun woven T-shirt. There will be more to come; it's actually a nice pattern now I've tweaked it to suit. As I mentioned previously, it is American, and it is all in inches, which

Part of a conversation with Claude.ai about knowing one's own limitations, alluded to extensively in the post.

Knowing your limitations

I'll start by saying I'm not an all-out AI enthusiast. I have programmed it on a limited scale, and I do find it fascinating; nonetheless I also have some serious concerns about it, and anywhere AI is being used I need to know that those concerns

A very Christmassy-looking 1920s-style earring in red, green, and gold.

Summer break

I'm not one for going on holiday anywhere, but I'm giving myself the rest of this week off (and possibly also the following Monday). I hadn't been planning to do so, but there are two main reasons. One is that I had a stoma

Five traditionally styled boat-shaped bamboo netting needles in sizes decreasing from left to right.

Tools of the trade

You've seen my regular netting needles, and these are not they. My regular netting needles are made of steel, they're very narrow, and they carry a lot of string (or thread, depending on the size). These? They're bamboo, they came from eBay, and their

The cover of "Food, Wine, and Song" by the Orlando Consort, showing a mediaeval feast. The CD is hidden behind.

Middle-Aged spreads

Ah, mediaeval recipes. They're eternally fascinating (I saw one recently which began "Take a sausage and kerf hym in gobettes" - what's not to like there?), but I can't help feeling that they were more mnemonics than actual recipes. The actual recipes,

Sample page from freesewing.eu showing cuddly sharks in many sizes and colours.

Freestyle swimming

I love sewing. And I love open-source. So when I found out that someone had actually put the two together, I just had to go and investigate; and what I found was quite out of this world. Freesewing.eu is not like any other pattern site you've ever

The Sewing and Crafts Discord server. There's a conversation happening here about pressing/ironing.

Discord and harmony

Just over eighteen months ago, a young woman died in hospital in Katowice in Poland. She was no stranger to that hospital, having been admitted many times during her short life. I don't know her exact age, but she was certainly only in her early twenties. Her death,

A simple copper penannular brooch pinned to a piece of closely-woven cotton fabric (it's the birds print from earlier).

Beyond the pale

I'm not an albino. I'm just extremely melanin-deficient, to the point where every time I go to hospital someone, at some point, asks me in concerned tones if I'm always that pale. And the answer is: yes. Yes, I am. I know what I&

The Verdun woven T-shirt from Liesl & Co. It comes in two sleeve lengths and neckline variations.

Making (your own) history

I have the first skirt which is suitable for mediaeval garb; at that point - in fact, for the entire Middle Ages and earlier periods of European history - you had a choice of linen or wool, and if you were feeling really fancy you could mix them, and so

A group of pirates wearing frock coats, lace-up shirts, and awesome hats

Potted pirates

We all make mistakes, and drama groups are no exception to that rule, especially not very new and highly enthusiastic ones. So I'm not blaming any of them for what I'm about to relate, but... it was still kind of frustrating. The first thing I asked

Hand-dyed yarn in a spectrum of colours ranging from yellow to dark green.

Infinite variety

So, as I think I mentioned the other day, I am now the proud owner of a galvanised bucket; and once you have one of those, the world of dyes is your oyster. And, while dyeing fabric is always a fun thing to do, I realised that I now also

Very dark brown Celtic cross with knotwork and background circle, shown against a red linen-look fabric.

For peat's sake

Given the time and place in which I had chosen to set my persona, I rapidly came to realise something very important; and that was that she was Definitely Not A Saxon. She probably doesn't have anything against individual Saxons, as long as they're civilised and