Music Everywhere (Page 2)

The dragon is made in rich purple velour with silver grey contrasts, and has wobble eyes.

One year on

Do you realise it's exactly a year since I started this blog? Quite a lot has happened during that time. I keep a record of everything I've posted, partly to make it easier to find posts if I want to link them (as I can'

Alexandre wears purple and white; he uses a sword and shield. Nicholas wears green and yellow; he uses two swords.

All whacked out

No formal post today because I am still really tired, but here's a quick look at what I was doing over the weekend. I will, however, just say a little bit about the two blokes in the photo. Alexandre is very good at this hitting-people-with-sticks business; he got

The Good Omens graphic novel and a lovely but unnecessary bookmark (the book has its own built-in ribbon).

Genesis to revelation

I read most of Good Omens several years ago while staying at someone's house, but I didn't quite manage to finish it before I left. Since I was enjoying it, I made a mental note to get my own copy; but somehow, for various reasons, that

This version shows a humanoid upper body with more animal-like legs and a tail.

Pol(l)ymorphic

Last-minute edit: due to a family illness, it is possible that this blog may abruptly go on hiatus in the next few days. At the moment I am not quite sure what is happening, but if the blog does suddenly disappear it will be back later. Anyone who sews at

Folders showing two tops, one cape, one dress, one bodice, one peignoir set, one bolero, and one coat.

Down the rabbit hole

If you do any kind of serious sewing, at some point you're going to hear someone mention "Gertie's Patreon". Gertie is the person behind Charm Patterns, and you've already met one of those on this blog; it was the Cinch-It Dress, which

This net is brown jute twine, and it is all bundled up. The whole thing is the size of a large cushion.

Gallimaufry 3

I have finished the first of the two unfeasibly large nets, and it is amusing to see just how much bigger it is than the original reel of twine whence it came. (I knew it was going to be bigger - there's a lot of air involved in

Someone wants to do crafts on cardboard and fabric using a marker, and wants to know what type of marker. ???

Help us to help you

Our sewing and crafts server gets a fair few help requests. Some of them come from reasonably experienced people (often those who are already active on the server) who've just run into some issue they haven't met before. These people are fine. They know the drill.

The net is anchored at the top of the frame a few meshes off the working line. There are a few loops on the mesh stick.

Supersize me

I've already dealt with the technical problems of doing fine gauge netting; but what I didn't initially realise was that very large pieces have their own, quite different, set of problems. I think I've already said I am making nets for the stage production

14 stitches (plus the initial double slip knot) cast on using a green yarn, with the second strand in orange for clarity.

A good start

I get ever so very mildly annoyed by knitting patterns that tell you how to cast on. About the level of annoyance you'd get if, oh, maybe a fruit fly landed on your book while you were reading... so it only just registers as annoyance. Nonetheless, I'

A raw deer hide, prepared for tanning, lying on grass and being held flat at each end by people's feet.

Run and hide

On Saturday I went to my first actual physical SCA meeting; it was the Flintmoot, which is the monthly meeting of our shire (our SCA shire is called Flintheath, which is a little puzzling since it contains very little flint and no heath as far as I'm aware;

Infinite cable loop done in purple. It's on the usual reversed stocking stitch background, with an Irish moss border.

To infinity and beyond!

I have a cable jumper pattern which was, apparently, inspired by Henry VIII (it certainly comes in all sizes up to Henry), and the interesting thing about it is that it has looped cables. The bottoms of the loops are created by making additional stitches, which are then decreased again

"Puncetto Valsesiano: Manuale di Base" by Anna Axerio.

Puncetto redux

I have previously drawn attention to things fitting neatly and unexpectedly together on the craft front, but this is an example of particular beauty and joy. It relates to the Puncetto Valsesiano I posted about on Wednesday. Now I have been having quite a bit of difficulty this week; I&

The lace is quite geometric and looks similar to a woven fabric with cutwork. It's not; it's all needle-made.

Stitching in the air

I had never heard of Puncetto Valsesiano till yesterday; which is perhaps not surprising. I know a fair bit about needle lace in general, but there is such a huge variety of needle laces that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to know about them all. And the first

A very large cylindrical spool of natural-coloured jute twine sitting next to a reel of regular sewing thread

Oh, what a tangled web...

Getting hold of three kilogrammes of jute twine should really not be complicated. Yes, I'm well aware that's a lot of twine; the feature photo shows only one of those kilogrammes. But the drama group is going to need a lot of netting, so that'

The beginning of a comic poem, written in a lined A5 notebook, showing the pen. The text is linked later.

No holds bard

I'm eternally amazed at the way all the things I do mesh together, even though it happens all the time. So it's quite hard to pick a point where this sequence of events can be said to have started, but let's say it was

Circular tatted motifs in different sizes and colours, all with a lot of picots around the edges.

The things you learn

I'm going to start by saying I've never done any tatting... yet. I've certainly thought about it. Every so often I see a tatting shuttle for sale and think "h'mm, maybe some time". But I already know other methods of

Screencap from rytex.com.pl, showing images of the various types of wool fabrics they produce.

I've got a little list

If you move in online craft circles, you will probably find a number of Americans mourning the demise of Joann's, which was a large fabric and haberdashery chain - apparently a very good one. Exactly the same thing is happening in the SCA, because, of course, a lot

Four pirates; three of them look very fierce, but the one in the foreground looks horror-stricken for some reason.

A little drama

I think - I hope - I have finally done the last lot of edits on the script; for one thing the group will need plenty of time to rehearse it (it didn't help that most of the main wheels in the group were away for lengthy and

Vintage corset advertisement. These corsets are underbust, advertised as non-rustable, and... very girdle-like.

Corsets obvious...

It's one of those standard pieces of sartorial knowledge that the invention of the bra early in the 20th century was what killed the corset. Standard, but... as it turns out, almost completely wrong. Let me talk a bit about what really did happen. Let's start

Double pill box with 56 compartments; on the left are slightly larger 2-hole beads, and on the right small glittery ones.

Order and chaos

When you make a lot of earrings, and every pair is unique, you necessarily have a lot of beads. This post is partly going to be about organising the beads themselves, but mostly about organising the web shop, which has been a bit of a headache of late; but let&

This is a fuchsia pink Gossard Superboost Lace bra which has been taken apart to show the structure.

For science!

I may have mentioned recently that I've got too big for my going-out bras; and there are some people on the Discord crafts server I'm on who are interested in bra-making. So it suddenly occurred to me that, now I had a couple of officially dead

The sentence "judge my vow, black sphinx of quartz" written in three different nib thicknesses.

Parallel universe

These are the Pilot Parallel calligraphy pens; and the short summary is they're very good... but there's a bit more to it than that, because there always is. I got them out on Monday night, feeling in need of something to calm me down as I&

Off-white cotton fabric with a gold print, edged with white cotton lace which looks like bobbin lace (but probably isn't).

A hint of a tint

As I briefly mentioned the other day, ten days ago my white dupatta met with a fatal accident. It somehow got caught in the rear wheel of my mobility scooter (I can't think how, as it wasn't especially long and it was wrapped around me), ripping

The text reads: "Judge my vow, black sphinx of quartz", which contains every letter of the alphabet.

Thick and thin

When I was in my late teens, I bought a calligraphy marker. Possibly I bought a set of them; I can't remember now. And when I tried using it, I discovered an important fact. Anyone, actually, can do basic calligraphy, because the main thing is the shape of

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