Viscose/linen blends, as it turns out, are usually quite expensive. Unless you want white. Minerva has some white deadstock viscose/linen going at about half the price of the colours, and over the weekend they had a sale on white fabric, so it was still further reduced; and this
It was this picture that did it. I decided I was going for Ancient British. See those two young women in the top half of the picture, just right of the centre? They're both wearing long dresses with a short(ish) tunic over the top. And I thought.
Quite a long time ago now, I was in the SCA, which stands for the Society for Creative Anachronism. The tagline on the website of the local chapter is "Learn history by living it!", and that is pretty much what it's all about; the Society isn&
I have a first draft. It's not complete - I still need to write most of the song lyrics - but I have all the dialogue, barring the odd tweaks. The organiser e-mailed me on Tuesday, I think it was, and asked if I'd like a
It turns out there's more than one reason I need to make some nets in an unexpected hurry. There is the fact that we need them for props, obviously; if you're going to set a play at sea, you do need nets to give the general
We had a meeting about the script on Thursday night, and it was... quite a long way off the wall. Which is what you want when you're going for comedy. There were only five of us there, and only four at any given time, because one person had
This applies to a lot of other creative crafts as well as beading; so if beading isn't quite your thing, you may still find something here that resonates. I'm going to talk about colours. Sometimes, colours are really easy, and there is a superb example in
Recently I was asked to fill in a brief survey about what my sewing level was; and I was actually stymied. I had no idea what to put. So I didn't fill it in at all; but, having been musing on this a while, I realise the correct
I'm not writing a pantomime. Let's just make that 100% clear. Thing is, we had a little misunderstanding in the drama group. I'm delighted to say there wasn't so much as a hint of unpleasantness about it; it was just one of
I was rather hoping to get a photo from the play itself, and I know there were plenty taken; but none of them has circulated back to me yet. I live in hope. So here's a rehearsal photo, so that you can see what I mean about some
So I made that accidental olive green skirt, and, given that the hot weather looks like persisting for a while, a few more summer skirts seemed like a good idea. I bought some more fabric (reduced, naturally), and I'm now having at it in odd moments. Deciding that,
Noel Coward was a wonderful lyricist, but he hadn't quite caught on to inclusive language. So when he wrote that "mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun", he probably didn't intend to exclude Englishwomen or, for that matter, English children... and