Getting mediaeval

Mr Wooster's Victorian shirt wasn't the only linen shirt I made. There was also this one. I'm not exactly sure what I made it for, except possibly just the sheer fun of it (oh, and hot weather; I dislike hot weather with a passion,

Twenty lovesick maidens we

To avoid confusion, I'll say right now that I didn't do the costuming for the performance of Annie Get Your Gun shown in the feature photo; but these are the only good theatrical photos I have (my sister has been in several other productions but I

Gallimaufry

Every now and then, there's going to be a post made up of little bits that aren't really enough individually to make a whole post, so I'll just throw a few of them together and we'll see how it develops. This embroidery,

Tested to exhaustion

A while ago I posted about Finnegan's Cake. This is... similar, only different, and worse. But it does all end well! At about the same time as I bought the air fryer, I also bought a recipe book from eBay. It was, specifically, a vegan air fryer recipe

They muck you up...

Yes, I do realise that Philip Larkin's original quote is several letters of the alphabet removed from my title line; but I've never used that word and I don't plan to start now. Anyway, I think I was about eleven when my parents decided

Doctor, Doctor!

I'm not a Whovian, in particular. I used to watch it as a child in the Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker days, and both of them were very good, and I can't even remember who took over from Tom Baker but I rather lost interest after that.

Sewing for every body

I was originally planning to post about something else today, but you'll get that tomorrow now instead. Yesterday morning I had a very nice chat on Mastodon with someone else who sews her own clothes; and while she does, like me, also have a non-average figure, one of

A knotty question

I used to do quite a lot of Celtic knotwork; some of it even went on that cake I mentioned, the one that was a prize in the church raffle all those years ago. I had books on the subject. You see, I write poetry myself as well as translating

Game, set, and matching decor

Let me start by saying that you don't actually need fancy props to do roleplaying. It's perfectly possible to do it online without anything like that, just so long as you have a little bit of software to roll dice for you (and a lot of

There may be trouble ahead

I was invited to a wedding that took place in April; and I'd rather like to tell you the story behind that one, because it was a mature romance and I'm always fond of those, but that would make the post too long. So instead I&

Everything in its place

So, obviously, I like knitting and I like beads; and therefore it was only a matter of time before I decided to put the two together. This is the start of a beaded top I designed using Paintbox Metallic, and I mostly want to talk about the beading today, but

Theme and variations

I may have mentioned that the demographic is a bit odd here. At one point I heard that there were more under-1s in this town than over-55s; that may have changed, since it is now more than a year since I heard that particular snippet, but it is true that