The Historical Sew Fortnightly After some internal debate ('I don't need more things to sew. Or time constraints!' -'...

So what to do with small amounts of very pretty, handspun wool? Samples, of course!!! Here's what I did with the woad-dyed Finnish Jaala...

"I knew they were crazy, those Finns, but blue sheep? Really?!", said boyfriend J-E when he came home yesterday and found me with ...

The cloak I have an inexplicable passion for short cloaks. They're not the commonest or most documentable of garments, though, espec...

When it comes to reenactment, few things are as effctive as a planned event to get me working on Stuff I Need. In February 2013, it was ti...

Now that I've started spinning for real, I couldn't stop myself from making a test swatch out of my first bit of purpose-made warp ...

For some reason, my first version of this post disappeared yesterday. I don't know how, but it's not online or on my blogger homepag...