Lately I’ve been haunted by visions of long, swishy, billowing coats. Perhaps I’ve just been watching too much Doctor Who (wait a moment - there is no such thing as too much Doctor Who…) - it’s really hard to resist the lure of the 10th Doctor’s coat. I did a bit of research on that […]
Lately I’ve been hitting my ravelry queue even more than usual - planning, dreaming, matching stash yarns to projects - all the things I love to do while I’m chomping at the bit to start something new but not allowing myself to do so due to having the WIP list from hell and trying to […]
This, my hearties, is my coatee - the uniform jacket I am supposed to wear on parade and for battle. I don’t want to complain, but I’ve been dragging it around Europe for years now and
as you can see, it’s threadbare, patched and almost coming apart at the seams. It’s about time the good King […]
It’s been a bit quiet around here lately, because I got sidetracked by having too many things to do. First of all, I was on vacation in Jordan for 10 days, making my way from North to South along the country and visiting most of the major tourist sites. It is a fascinating country in […]
Ever since we found the correct measurements for a Haversack that would be issued to a British Soldier in the late Napoleonic era in Soldiers’ Accoutrements of the British Army 1750-1900, DH has been bugging me to make one.
Actually, Napoleonic soldiers’ haversacks are not too complicated to make. They consist of a large piece that […]
I would so love to have a new skirt for spring, but as I am a size 24 with an ample belly and almost no hip curve, commercial clothes never really fit me. Unfortunately, the same holds true for commercial sewing patterns, for exactly the same reasons. So I decided to take a different approach: […]