About
That's me on the home page, being a pretty lady and striving valiantly not to get grease spots on my finished-that-morning silk dress. Go to Sabine Goes on an Adventure to see me getting ready to shoot an apple off William Tell's head. Spoilers: Bill was laid to rest with a fresh hole in his head, right between the eyes. Sorry, Bill.
I'm a much better seamstress than sharpshooter, and in general, if it's a fiber art, I'm interested. I'm a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism and have a growing interest in the fashion history of many eras outside medieval and Renaissance Europe. I love the challenge of recreating garments that may now exist only in highly stylized illustrations, and I handsew because I enjoy the workand because I am irrationally afraid of sewing machines. No, I don't want to talk about it.
I also knit and spin, and I'm becoming more enamored of embroidery every day. Someday I'm going to have a loom for flat weaving, but in the meantime I borrow a friend's teaching loom when it's available, and dream up schemes like The Donkeyskin Dresses for that eventual someday.
Aside from costume-related passions, I swordfight and do archery, draw and paint (a little), and read a lot of books. Sometimes I make bread. Lately I've gotten into a bit of preserving, too, which mainly offers new and exciting ways to cut, burn, steam, and otherwise endanger myself. And in summer, I spend hours sitting by my roses doing very little at all.
I'm a much better seamstress than sharpshooter, and in general, if it's a fiber art, I'm interested. I'm a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism and have a growing interest in the fashion history of many eras outside medieval and Renaissance Europe. I love the challenge of recreating garments that may now exist only in highly stylized illustrations, and I handsew because I enjoy the work
I also knit and spin, and I'm becoming more enamored of embroidery every day. Someday I'm going to have a loom for flat weaving, but in the meantime I borrow a friend's teaching loom when it's available, and dream up schemes like The Donkeyskin Dresses for that eventual someday.
Aside from costume-related passions, I swordfight and do archery, draw and paint (a little), and read a lot of books. Sometimes I make bread. Lately I've gotten into a bit of preserving, too, which mainly offers new and exciting ways to cut, burn, steam, and otherwise endanger myself. And in summer, I spend hours sitting by my roses doing very little at all.