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Currency for the Current-sies

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Our barony voted us in as baron and baroness.   The barony jokingly calls people in that position (that is, voted in, but not yet invested) Nextcellencies.   We had the benefit of time to follow around the baron and baroness (Their Excellencies) to understand better how things are done, a really nice opportunity (big thanks to our predecessors!).   Meanwhile we had to start thinking about some things, like tokens to give out at our investiture.    A variety of media came to mind and ultimately we decided pewter coins would be nice.   We’d not worked in pewter before so my other half did what he does so well--dove in, research mode activated, and a snowstorm of ideas started coming together.   We decided on images, got help from a friend who’s worked with metals, starting talking through this with her, had several meetings, and made multiple attempts at crafting coins in different ways.   Finally, we settled on pouring molten pewter (it has a fairl...
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Favors

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 Took soooo long, but it's done .
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Rose to the challenge

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Embroidered this rose for a special coat that was being made for a friend, one of ~100 roses that many different people made.   They were all about the same size/shape, but each rose was just a bit different, nice!   Delighted to be able to participate.   Wasn’t sure how it would go, but impressed myself.   And the coat itself is AMAZING!  Kudos to all who made this come together!  So very grateful for friends’ guidance and encouragement.
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Panic Button Hat

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Tried using up thick yarns I was running out of to make a hat...waste not, right?  Started with grey, not much, so the idea was a border/bit of decoration.  Then rust, a nice color, could add a circle of grey at the top to bookend it.  Then ran out of rust.  Wait, didn't I have more?  Scramble, dig, make a mess, ugh!  OK, fine, no more rust, stick with the plan--finish with grey.  Ack!  No grey at all? Scramble, dig, make a mess....  Oh!  :D Some of the rust.  Nope, not the same rust.  Sigh.  Plan C.  Another color, same thickness--gold?  No, too bright.  Forest green?  No, too dark.  Dig, dig, dig.  Ah, a more subtle orange.  Finish with....ran out?  What?!  Dig, dig, dig.  Was sure I....  Crap.  Where was that...  Fume.  Ah,  a scrap.  Not much, but gets me closer...  Dig, dig, dig.  What's this?  Part of a failed started proje...
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Art-a-fact

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  Art-a-fact This small, whimsical light green/beige/gold pouch was a first attempt at weaving in the SCA.   And, yes, a fun, energizing moment of “Ooh—I made a thing!”   Very little idea of what I was doing.   Boldly made an attempt at making a small thing, fighting the innate desire for instant perfection and the built in avoidance of failure.   Thanks Web, for providing access to people who post to teach what they learn!   Had no loom so made a single-use cardboard one (cut up to release the object d’art).   The colors were what was available at hand in modern, inexpensive fibers (all I’d used at that point in attempts at knitting).   Read I needed strong fibers for the warp that wouldn’t break so had some strong black thread I figured made sense to use.   Didn’t consider these would be visible later…live and learn.   Threw in some loose dangly bits to give it some playfulness and joy, not considering medieval samples.   Weavi...
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In storage our group had an unfinished loaner garb skirt that needed the roughly cut bottom finished.  Having success with the pants and buttonholes I thought I'd give it a try.  Trimmed it to make the curve the same all around, pinned it up (multiple times because it wasn't quite right at times and the curves led to weird sewing), and then to the work of sewing it.  It's a wide skirt that just seemed to keep going and going.  My sewing machine and I don't always agree, and we had some frustrating moments, but I kept at it.  Doing a thing, making mistakes, undoing them when needed and trying again seems natural to some, but it's a bit of an uphill slog for me.  Every little victory helps me learn to do it better next time.    
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buttonholed

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Was trying to finish sewing some loaner garb someone else had started that needed to flexible enough to fit a variety of people.  Not a lot of experience so figured a string though them should work to hold them up.  Sewed the waist so it had an area for a long shoelace, then with a nalbinding needle pushed threads aside to create 2 circular openings in the fabric and sewed these into a couple buttonholes.  Pleasanstly surprised myself.  :)
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