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I figured this thread needed pictures

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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/usarmymutt/3737008561/" title="Simple Day 004 by Crimthann Fid-Nemed, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3451/3737008561_57923173b1.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Simple Day 004"></a> I test-drove one of the new tunics this weekend at simple...

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There is also an abandoned Catholic church in downtown Louisville that has had all the stainglass removed. I've dreamed of opening a resturant there, replacing the stained glass with images of monks imbibing and fat saints eating and calling it "Our Lady of Consumption"

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I'm with HRM Dragon!

Where is the tutorial for this beauty?

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...jealousy...

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very cool

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Now who can make lion legs for a stool?

http://www.bumply.com/Medieval/fauldstool01.html

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Bitchin'. I will quest for you. I need more Norse Bling.

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do it!

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Vitus von Atzinger wrote:So you are volunteering to organize such a thing for the Midrealm travel fund? Great idea!

Well I've only a few months left in the Midrealm, some of which will be traveling out of state and overseas for work. But it'd be great if a Peer would actually step up.

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I think this is a brilliant idea.

and Dilian, I believe its stated this is for raising funds for the Royal Travel Fund, but the idea could be utilized for any Chairty in any Kingdom.

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Got my 16th century doublet started over the weekend and a pair of open work shoes. At the event I was at some brain storming gave me an new bad idea for midnight madness this year; 14th century mafia a fusion of a 1920s gangster suit and a kirtle. Pinstriped hose and kirlte; the kirtle will be dou...

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If its just for sleeping, get her a shelter half. Note: You'll need two halves to make a whole.

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This will be my First Pennsic. Can't wait. if you are of drinking age find me at Big Yellow House, N 18, one gate down from the North Gate, and claim your beer. If not, claim your soda. Either way, stop up and say "Hi!" i'll have the big white pavilion with roof-mounted sunshade, black an...

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I'm working on a Hiberno-Norse tradesman living in Dublin in the year 1000AD. While I havnt found many available reproductions coming from finds in or near Dublin (or Ireland), I've guessed that tunic cuts and hardware would be similar or traveled in such a metropolitian area.

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Actually it was a gore on a seam, in the center of the chest for the hood, but thankyouthankyouthankyou for the article. I live to learn. You're very welcome. In the case of a gore set into a an open seam, you're in luck, because it's easier than setting into a slit. The directions in my article st...

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I proved to myself once again that I suck at sewing gussets. I made an early Hood to wear at pennsic out of blue linen. Center Gusset looks puckered and crappy. Have you read my article on setting a gore into a slit ? I'm pretty sure that's what you mean when you say "center gusset". Chec...

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This will be my First Pennsic. Can't wait.

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I proved to myself once again that I suck at sewing gussets.

I made an early Hood to wear at pennsic out of blue linen. Center Gusset looks puckered and crappy.

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I'm hand-embroidaring everything until I can buy some tablet woven stuff and/or learn to do it myself.

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Charlotte J wrote:Alternative question - do you really *need* trim?

Yes! How else will anyone know how special I am!

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I just bought a bunch of linen at 50% off so I'm working on some tunics and a hood for my first Pennsic. I've also started to build an entire head-to-toe outfit* that a Hiberno-Norse man would wear in the year 1000 while living in Dublin, complete with hand embroidery. I'm hoping to find some tablet...

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dont know yet. the military may have other ideas. you might try craigslist, or walmart.

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Glaukos the Athenian wrote:
Crimthann of Fid-Nemed wrote:I have one, but I have no idea if you are local or not.

Thanks!

I am in Roxbury Mill, Atlantia (outside DC in Maryland) and you?

G-

12hours due west. oh well

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you could just drink beer with your breakfast. or goats milk.

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I have one, but I have no idea if you are local or not.

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Go with the French Press. You just have to have some hot water in a larger pot on the fire at all times, and viola, you have coffee. I lived off of my French Press (the Naglene bottle version) for a year in Iraq.

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or you could modify a modern pop up tent/day shade. Make walls that slant and stake down like a regent. 80 bucks for the shade, another 100 probably for the fabric. plus you add more space by eliminaing the need for the center pole.

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and lets not forget when coffee houses and cafes became the central location for discussing government (and its potential replacements) while getting stimulated v. getting drunk and falling asleep.

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While not the Kingdom Anthem (yet), Ring Tribe is fond of Heather Alexander's March of Cambreadth. m)=id&id(songs)=38/ Axes flash, broadsword swing, Shining armour's piercing ring Horses run with polished shield, Fight Those Bastards till They Yield Midnight mare and blood red roan, Fight to Kee...

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very cool

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Konstantin; i've got a whole cow's worth of veg tanned 8-10 oz waiting for me back home. I worked at a tandy leather factory before I jloined the army and all I did there when i wasn't running the register was work on armor projects of various magnitudes and difficulties. i never really got into to...

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Are use using camel leather? Cuz that would be bad ass.

I have a friend that made his by strapping the leather breastplate on, jumping in the pool, and then laying out in the sun while it dried. Of course, he is built like Apollo, so it worked well.

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I will not

I will be away in the East Kingdom, in Connecticut, for a week with the family, some friends, and my High School Reunion.