Persona Giuliana di Chambery began as Juliana de Chambery from Savoy. I liked the choice of Savoy as it’s proximity to both France and Italy gave me flexibility in the styles available to me. I have always leaned towards the Italian styles though, so now Juliana du Chambery is born to a wealthy cloth merchant […]
Read more "Giuliana di ChamberyI am finding that as I work through various projects, weaving is less intuitive than I expect. My most recent set of projects is a perfect example. This fall my wonderful husband took me for a romantic weekend to a Black Mountain bed and breakfast. In addition to good food, lovely accommodations and a small […]
Read more "Keeping with a theme"Using the lessons from my test piece, I decided to move forward with a more challenging project, and weave a pair of winingas. Winingas are a piece of clothing common to men’s attire in the early medieval Norse and Anglo-Saxon cultures. They appear again as puttees in British military garb in the late 1800s. Typically […]
Read more "Winingas"As the pandemic draws on, I keep dreaming of when I might be able to travel. I’m parking this here for future reference, and dreaming…
Read more "European Trip"For the last 15 years or so my husband and I have celebrated the feast of the rutabaga. It is essentially a long running gag based on the fact that once upon a time I had never cooked rutabaga and my husband had never even seen one, but really liked the sound of the word. […]
Read more "Feast of the Rutabaga"Those of you who follow me will know that I occasionally write about medieval foods, the preparation of which is one of my hobbies. Today I’m posting about a different kind of history, a personal one. I have enjoyed baking since I was a teenager. It was the one culinary art my mother had not […]
Read more "A Different Kind of Historical Recipe"It says something about the state of my life that most of the posts I have managed to post, have to do with food. I may not have time to craft, but at least I’m still putting dinner on the table. That’s something I guess. We just got back from a five day family reunion, […]
Read more "Variations on an Old Theme and A New Winner"I love soup. It’s one of those things you can make as a vegetarian and no one feels like they’re missing out. It’s also now closely associated with warm the companionship of friends. My husband’s family, growing up, was a military family, which frequently meant being away from family at the holidays. Since there were […]
Read more "Cream of “fill in the vegetable” Soup Strikes Again!"I am going to give up on apologizing for long lapses in posts. This time, my excuse is very good… Just a career change and move slowing me down. But never fear, I still find time for crafting. Last month, during Christmas break, I took the kids into downtown Greensboro to visit a local yarn […]
Read more "Spider-Man Yarn"So the last few posts have been about my photography project for my mother’s cookbook. But that is a recent project. One that I have been working on for much longer is compiling a collection of medieval vegetarian recipes as a resource for SCA cooks. So far I have mostly been fishing them out of […]
Read more "My Other Food Project"