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Fun with the Skydstrup-style embellishment
While cruising the web, I found a bit about a blouse found in Skydstrup, Denmark, and dated to 1300-1500 BC. What makes this extra cool, is that it seems to be embellished with a braided type of nalbinding (so nalbinding onto woven material, which was also done with gold thread in the much later Viking era; need to research that more). So far I ( Read more... ) -
Sweet Potato Salad
As promised, here's the recipe for sweet potato salad (with the smoked paprika). Its from my Dad, and serves some ridiculous number of people (I think it says 24 servings, but usually people eat way more per person, and it goes for more like 12 or less).
I don't always use the full amount of onions, bell pepper, and bacon. And I want to think I ( Read more... ) -
St. Lauri's Church
Finally uploaded pictures of the church where The Juho and I got married some 7 thousand years ago, according to him (add dramatic pause between the words 7, thousand, and years). Actually, it will be 13 years this June. This is a 15th century church in Juho's hometown of Lohja, Finland. I took a ton of pictures last summer since the paintings ( Read more... ) -
Pelican Cap with Nalbinding
I wanted to make an "everyday cap of maintenance" for Master Sir Jacob. He's a practical man, and I figured he would appreciate a cap he could stuff in a pocket, but that would still look nice. So I made one with nalbinding.
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Nalbinding workshop: April A&S
I'm signed up to host a nalbinding workshop during the April A&S meeting in Tir Ysgithr. That's a Thursday night, April 14. Right before tax day ( Read more... ) -
Finnish Beet Salad
As promised, here is a recipe for Rosolli, the infamous Finnish beet salad. I loves me some rosolli. No Christmas table is complete without it, and it is a perfect winter salad.
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Two Pre-Estrella Projects
Like lots of people, I have a huge to-do list before Estrella. Here are pics and details of two things I just finished. The first is a heraldic banner, and the second is the patch to go on the Tir Ysgithr household A&S champion banner for last year's win.
1) Heraldic banner. The Sable Millrind folks hang up the heraldry of the people present at the ( Read more... ) -
That darned Kekomäki, Kaukola band...
I've been playing around with patterns from the infamous Egon Hansen tabletweaving book. I think his notation is very clear, but what it lacks is a clear explanation of where all the cards start in many cases. You can reconstruct it from the turning diagram, sure, but it takes a while. I'm working on his version (which possibly isn't exactly ( Read more... ) -
More nalbinding: Finnish turning stitches
From what I can tell, there are two kinds of Finnish turning stitches: you either turn the first loop from the thumb, or you turn the last of the previous loops you are picking up. The turning makes it so that your needle is actually switching direction a couple of times, so its pretty fun (although not the easiest thing to learn). The first ( Read more... ) -
spring, sprang, sprung, and a hat
I finally got the Collingwood book on sprang. It gives me a headache, which means I now have to defeat this technique. I think this will be my spring/summer goal this year. Honestly, I am not having fun unless I am trying to figure something out on my own and it is frustrating enough to elicit some creative cursing. I believe this will fit the ( Read more... )
