Productive

It's been a rather productive weekend even if the mini-pavilino was put on hold and is still waiting for its hub.

Finndragon always seems to go through growth spurts as soon as I'm done updating his SCA wardrobe. Thus, I appear to be always one season behind and constantly playing catch-up. Right now were good on winter items: cozy lined wool doublets, lined pants, toasty stockings - you get the idea.

While it's still fairly fresh for the time of the year here in Florida, a light-weight summer wardrobe with a couple of warmer things thrown in for cooler nights is absolutely essential and since Finndragon will be accompanying me to St George's this coming weekend, I had to buckle down and whip up some fitting clothes for the poor kid.

Saturday morning I tore into the fabric chest, a nice cedar trunk I bought from Baroness Kenet 2 or 3 years ago, pulling out various lengths of mostly linen. Making medieval clothes for Finn is refreshingly easy and fast since the seams are so pleasantly short and there aren't half a dozen yards that go into a skirt :o)

Some patterning and a few fittings later Finn has now several items that only need a few finishing touches ie buttons, button-holes, lacing holesand laces that need to be done by hand

- brown linen chaussee

- off-white cotton braies

- off-white cotton shirt

- orange linen Housebook kirtle

- cream wool hood with purple linen lining because it was "itchy", Finndragon declared

Of course -I- won't have anything new to wear ... meh *L*