michaelsbagley

Don't take it personal... My posts were an attempt to divert a discussion on another thread to a thread I thought was more appropirately titled... My attempt failed, and the conversation is now best left where it was. Were you expecting some inappropriate comments amount your wife? Or perhaps a critique on your excellent handiwork? I can do either or both if you would like!

Post deleted.

Post deleted.

After seeing Aminjiria's work, I would agree with Sterling... He's freaking fantastic at that stuff... Should you be bound and determined to do it yourself, the Roxio Video editting suite while not professional grade, is definately in my opinion one of the better home video editting peices of software for the price. Should you be willing to spend serious money, go with Adobe's video editting software (I've forgotten the name of it, but a quick search on Adobe.com will fix that). Cheers

Except for the fact that I spelled it wrong, yeah Nouveaux = new.

And the madness continues... Here are links to the latest images from this project, now completely sewn together (except for the straps and edge binding). The panels are joined together using backstitching. Tomorrow we'll insert the reeds, and then perhaps attach the straps... Outside View Inside View Dutch I think you might be correct, had I been more vigilant in my sewing duties and made her a second set of stays sooner, this madness may not have come to pass.

Sounds like you've got some brilliant ideas in the works Patrick!!! Okay, here is my suggestion on the division of Canada... The red area would be French Canada (or Lower Canada, or Neaveaux France, or whatever you want to call it), the blue lined area would be English Canada (or Upper Canada, or whatever).... Anything beyond the area I've slated for English Canada would likely just be more of "The Wild Lands" as you've labeled them. Sorry for the shoddy work on the map, but I've re-installed my computer recently and haven't installed any graphic software yet, so all I had was Windows "Paint".

Just curious though, does not Kass recommend wool stays first ? It's entirely possible that she does.... But I just realized how silly my statement was... I had it in my head for stays of ALL wool construction, when Nell mentioned Mary's stays that are wool with likely linen lining, I then thought what is my issue with wool stays? I shouldn't have one, as long as they are interlined with linen or other not as stretchy fabrics. So wool stays are fine, and I completely retract my previous statement!

I'm reading book 6 of the Harry Potter series, as this Johnnie come lately is determined to finish the series before he dives into the book he got for X-mas.

I'm still shaking my head in disbelief, but wife has managed to do the hardest and most tedious part of a set of stay in just one weekend. Yes, between yesterday and today she has sewn ALL of the boning channels (yes by hand) on her new set of stays. She barely paused long enough for me to snap a few pictures before she set upon the stays again to sew the panels together. Anyways, here are links to the images of the stays with all the boning channels sewn... I guess she has proven it possible for a possessed person to almost complete a set of stays BY HAND in the course of one lazy weekend around the apartment.... And we managed to take the tree and decorations down today as well! Photo of stays with boning channels sewn (inside) Photo of stays with boning channels sewn (outside)

Does it include a slice of key lime pie for dessert?

Not just home made wine.... Home made cherry wine! I hand picked (okay I had help) a five gallon bucket of cherries from a friends tree, then hand pitted them (that I did by myself). Yes I am insane! If you would like some help formulating a recipe for pomegranite mead, please let me know. I'd love to be a help on that if you would like. Actually, I'm going to go dig through my resources right now and post a recipe for a one gallon batch in a few minutes... Okay, neither of the two books I own that essentially are my wine and mead making bibles have anything to say on Pomegranate, but good old reliable Jack Keller has a recipe for pomegranate wine... If you replace the 3 pounds of sugar for 3 pounds (maybe 3 1/2 pounds) of a good honey, you should have a fine pomegranate mead recipe. I would suggest going with a sweet and fragrant honey (avoid clover honey like the plague despite the fact it is the easiest and usually the cheapest to buy). Maybe an orange blossom honey, or a wildflower honey... anything like that... Nothing too dark (buckwheat honey would be too dark for the pomeganates, as would tupelo honey)... And wow, 10 to 15 pomegranates for a one gallon batch of mead is going to be very spendy! You will only get about 4 or 5 standard wine bottles of mead out of a one gallon batch, so do keep that in mind. Now to clear something up, clover honey CAN make good mead, but it is very bitter when fermented, so you wouldn;t want to use it with anything delicate in flavour like pomegranates.

Hey Sophia, I'll likely bring some of my home made cheery wine and be more than happy to share that, but I think the mead will still be to young to drink at that point. I'm actually going to try and hold off on digging into the mead until next PiP to give it a bit of a chance to age. And yes, I think pomegranite mead would freaking awesome, my wife even believes so more than I do.... If only pomegranite's weren't so damn spendy, I would make some... I may some day decide to spoil the wife and make some anyways, but as the availability of pomeganites is starting to dry up for this year, it may have to wait until next year.

And I finally found it!!! I've been looking for some French images from the 1650s and 1660s to draw inspiration from... Finding Dutch images from that period on the web seems easy, but the French images were not easy... This image from the (early?) 1660s is likely going to be my main source of inspiration... I might use lighter colours, but it is very much the look I had envisioned. This image from the (late?) 1650s, also has a lot of elements that I am partial too. Animal, I'm not the best person to try to explain this, but I'm taking a break from sewing and I'm going to try anyways... Please take this with a grain of salt and hopefully someone will correct me if I am wrong. Okay, the guy leaning over the crate to the left of this image is wearing what I would think of as petticote breeches found in This old discussion thread... This old thread also seems to have some good insight... It's more reading than images, but hopefully it will help.

I accidentally stumbled across this on eBay.... Leather pistol bucket on eBay The bidding ends in 18 hours (from the time of this post), so I hope those interested get a chance to look at it before it disappears. It seems as if it is likely from a later period, but I don't think it looks too different from what I imagine a GAoP pistol bucket would look like. Cheers

Hey Sjöröveren, The links are from prior to Stynky's revamp... So if you copy and paste the link, and remove the portion of the URL that says "forums" they will work correctly. For example the first link for "Common Sailor's Clothing", the old link looks like this... http://pyracy.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8310, but if you edit the link in the address bar of your browser to look like this... http://pyracy.com/index.php?showtopic=8310 it will work fine. Hope this helps! Cheers!

The authenticity/anit-authenticity debate has played itself out at least every few months in this forum for the last 2 and a half years I've been on the forum, and probably a lot more before I signed on. Once again, the last few times the debate has been brought up is by a seeming "anti-authenticity" proponent mentioning the fabled "garb nazi" that I have NEVER seen any evidence of on this forum. But I do tire of the MYTH of the NON-EXISTENT "garb nazi" being propigated in such a passive aggressive manner. My suggestion lady, dig up one of the several existing Anti/pro authenticity discussion threads rather than take a good thread that has nothing to do with that debate down that road. Or leave your SCA angst where it belongs, in the SCA. I've been on the periphery of the SCA for close to 5 years, including three Pennsics, and I have yet to meet the fabled SCA authentinazi as well. I am VERY STRONGLY of the opinion that the myth of such a thing is really only an outlet for those who prefer more myth inspired garb to spit in the faces of those who try to go with a narrower view of history. Cheers

Next step finished... Today I drew lines (in pencil) on the interlining to mark the boning channels. Link to image of this step I used regular pencil to draw the lines as when the lining gets stitched on, it will not show. Also I find many of the chalk pencils rub off too easily, or the disappearing ink ones bleed. There is a panel missing from the photo, because Kate was busy starting to sew the boning channels as I was taking the photo. Apparently silk thread is a dream to sew with... Not having done this I can't this from first hand experience, but Kate seems to have nothing but good things to say about it. Also depicted in the above said photo is a piece of the reed boning that will be used on this set of stays. This is the 1/4 inch (7mm) flat oval reed from Reconstructing History.

I'm hoping they push the date for Beaufort back a week... Call me greedy, but I would love to have the option of attending all of the above... Although it would be just an option because in all reality I have to admit I know there is no way I could actually attend all three even if they fell on different weekend...

Those are brass buttons, they are the ones that Mary Diamond deals in when there is enough demand (See this thread for details). In my researched, I've found evidence for different units using either brass or tin/pewter buttons. I've not found any solid evidence for which the unit I am trying to portray uses, so I just made a judgement call. I'm also looking forward to seeing the updates to your gear. Cheers

RASH ....

I'd recommend staying away from wool for stays... It's generally too stretchy. However, it only takes a yard to a yard an a half for the outer layer of stays... The inner layers and lining can be done with linen.... So for stays it really wouldn't be that outrageous to buy the silk... Heck I will admit to havign made a set of stays for someone once where the outer layer was linen, but the inner layers were cotton... I can;t honestly remember if the lining was linen or cotton though. Oh, and you can get silk cheaper.... But usually cheaper silk is "Raw Silk" or "Duipioni Silk" etc,.... The cheaper silks have "slubs" (little nubbly bits in the weave) where as the better silks like taffetas are smooth and generally without slubs.

For that matter why not dig out the Rain Tree Crow album? David Dylvian is great on his own, but I find I like him working with Mick Kairn and the rest better.

Hey Rusty, I was surfing to pass a few moments of boredom over my lunch today, and I stumbled across this fabric store... Renaissance Fabrics Their prices seem to be not too bad, but since you mentioned rust, and you seem to like the look of the silk, here is a Rust Coloured Silk for you if you should be interested,

Bloody awesome album William! I haven't heard any David Sylvian in years... Personally I've gotthe White Strips "Elephant" album keeping the doldrums of work today at bay.