A different fiber hobby
[Apologies to anyone who also reads my SCA blog for the crossposting.]
I've been waiting on an order of fabric for Himself's SCA garb (to make a long story short, one of my partners has decided he'd like to play SCA with me). It finally arrived today, and turned out to be much better than expected.
It's a bit of a textured, standard 2x2 even weave soft grey wool plus something. The plus something came to light after I washed the yardage to get rid of dust stains and a vague smoke odor that belied the seller's claim to be a "smoke free home." No fulling = not 100% wool, but that's really okay. It looks and feels like 100%, and I'm not averse to a little plastic in my fabrics as long as they don't scream at me.
The seller comped us an extra yard, so it looks like I'll have enough to make him a nice doublet and loose Venetians out of it. We picked up new brushed silver metal buttons last week, and I still have tons of black bias tape for binding and simple decoration. The best part is, I think I may have gotten a piece of vintage fabric. The original yardage tag was still attached, and the price and script style on the tag (a paper tag stitched onto the fabric by its own string) makes me think this may be late 50s to early 60s.
In other happy mail news, I received a package from Halcyon Yarn. I've been planning a linen embroidered jacket based on the Maidstone jacket for a while now. My version will use a twisted lattice enclosure pattern, filled with single motifs of foxglove, pomegranate, and possibly pansies and one other fruit for interest.
The happy mail was 1600 yards of sapphire blue 2/30 silk embroidery floss. It's so soft I have to make myself not pet it. I'm not sure when I turned into such an embroidery whore, but I suspect it had a lot to do with feeling real silk floss for the first time. It's about painful to put off working on this jacket long enough to do garb for Himself for an event on the 23rd, and then the kirtle/fitted gown outfit and the loose coat for myself.
