Followers may have guessed from my post about cutting half-square triangles, I made a bit of a math mistake when cutting out my pieces for the quilt blocks. Soldiering on, I decided it wasn’t the end of the world and I’d just deal with the slightly smaller blocks this would result in. It changes the [...]
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In Dressing for Ye Fest, Parte One, I talked a little about how far I want to go in my quest for authenticity on this project. The result is somewhere between “mostly patterned like authentic sources”, “what Rae is claiming could be authentic patterning, sewn on a sewing machine” and “whatever Rae cooks up after [...]
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Last summer, a friend of mine suggested we head to the Sterling Renaissance Festival in Summer 2010 decked out in period garb. “Yes, yes, yes!” I cried in my head, “Wheee, I get to make a costume!!!” So, I’ve been spending some spare time researching Elizabethan clothing. A pair of my earliest projects were “Faire [...]
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