[Ansteorra-Textiles] New to the SCA and the Textiles List

[Gail]

welcome, Liz

Flower Mound is in the Steppes Barony (although you could play with Elfsea
(Ft. Worth) if you liked.

 Sorry to hear about your ankle, I know from personal experience how
uncomfortable and awkard that can be.

 You are very near the Sunday get together place, (Mary Heads Park in
Carrolton) and not too far from where we get together for Business meeting
(an excuse to eat Chinese)

  Not to brag, too much, but we have one of the finest weavers in the SCA in
Steppes (HL Saqua) that I'm sure someone will give you her phone number.

 anyway, welcome to the group.

galen

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[mailto:ansteorra-textiles-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of
Bulgarelli Maria
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:28 PM
To: Spinners, weavers, knitters and other Textile makers in Ansteorra
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-Textiles] New to the SCA and the Textiles List


Liz,

First of all welcome to the SCA.

I'm not sure where Flower Mound is, but I'm in Houston
and I'm teaching an Intro to Inkle Weaving class at
the Westgate Winter Collegium in August.

If you plan to be there, please feel free to come to
the class.  You don't have to have a loom.  The class
is going to be an intro with information on the loom
and what different terms mean in weaving.  I'm then
going to teach a simple design that you can warp up on
a loom if you have one.  If you don't you can still
learn by watching.

I looked up some looms on ebay.  I got one of mine
there.  I have a loom that I made but unfortunately
didn't have a drill press so the pegs are a little ...
ummmmmmm ... crooked.

Here's a link to some of the looms I found on ebay.

http://search.ebay.com/inkle-loom_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQfromZR40

Check out the auctions and see if you see one you
like.  You need to be comfortable with the loom so you
want to be careful buying one.

Maria
--- Liz Wilson <ewilson618 at tx.rr.com> wrote:

> Greetings to the Textile List!  I am new to the SCA
> and the Textiles List.  I do not even have a persona
> name yet.  My real name is Liz Wilson and I live
> with my family in Flower Mound, Texas.  My husband
> Robert and I have 7 year old twin girls, Amelia and
> Miranda.  I am in the process of researching names
> and other information about medieval europe.  Our
> ancestry is primarily Scottish (Ferguson, my maiden
> name) and English (Wilson, although it may also be
> from Scotland or even Ireland).  I am a stay at home
> mom and a substitute teacher, although before my
> children were born I was a lawyer for approximately
> 14 years, both in law firms and at a corporation.  I
> am still licensed as a lawyer but on inactive status
> (meaning I don't earn any money from law practice).
>
>
> Since I am just getting started in the SCA I am
> investigating various areas, but I have always
> enjoyed weaving and basketry.  I haven't done much
> weaving since girl scouts as a child, and I did take
> a basketry course at Arrowmont in the late 1980's in
> Tennessee, but it has been a while.  I would like to
> revisit these previous areas of interest.  I have
> never done the spinning at all but I saw a demo
> recently at girl scouts (again) and I thought it
> looked like great fun.   I am not much of a
> seamstress but I have done some counted cross stitch
> and other embroidery in the past as well--quit doing
> it because I didn't need any more decor for my house
> or gifts for others, but still have the stuff.  I
> was partial to samplers, which may be a little late
> for the medieval period.  My mundane hobby is
> scrapbooking.  I do a lot of volunteer work relating
> to my children, including girl scout assistant
> leader and destination imagination team assistant
> leader.  Being an assistant means I do all the grunt
> work that the leader doesn't want to do and while I
> get very little glory for it, I also do not have the
> ultimate responsibility for things if they go awry
> (I learned a few things from law practice!)
>
> I am interested in acquiring an Inkle Loom (am I
> even spelling that right?) and learning how to use
> it, although right now my main textile project is
> finishing sewing the patches on the girls' Brownie
> vests (but I'm almost done).  Right now I have a bit
> of time on my hands because I broke my ankle on our
> vacation on July 4th, so I am on crutches or
> wheelchair and I am not going anywhere most of the
> time. My only other major project this summer is
> teaching my girls to fix their own lunches, etc.
> etc. so that I don't have to hop around on one leg.
> Needless to say, right now I have plenty of time to
> read the internet postings, wreite stuff, etc.
>
>  I probably don't have much to add to textile
> discussions right now given the level of my
> experience, so I'm mostly hoping to learn about
> various options.  I do have a sewing machine
> although the threader is broken and I don't really
> care for using it much, but maybe the SCA can help
> me turn that around.
>
> We have been big Scarborough Renaissance Festival
> attendees for several years now and do have garb
> that we have purchased there, although it is more
> reaniassance than medieval in nature and is not
> character or period specific.  I do plan to make
> more garb, by hand or sewing, at a later time.  I
> know this is more clothier guild than textile guild
> related, but I bring this up because it would
> certainly be useful to make some trim or other items
> to either decorate our current garb with or to use
> on new garb.  Also, my husband desires a kilt, and
> while I have the pattern I'm a little intimidated by
> all the pleats.  Planning to make that out of cotton
> flannel to keep the cost down unless someone
> convinces me otherwise.
>
> We haven't done the camping out with the girls yet,
> and with my ankle this will need to be postponed
> until it is better.  We did acquire a mundane tent
> and I am interested in making some things for the
> campsite, such as a cooler cover, chair covers for
> the camping chairs, etc.  I did purchase a neat
> remnant of upholstery fabric for $10 that would make
> a nice tablecloth or cooler cover, but I haven't
> decided exactly what to do with it yet.  I might
> just hem it or something simple like that.
>
> OK, that's probably way more than you wanted to
> know, so hopefully you have just skimmed through and
> said, "poor soul, she really needs a hobby!!"
>
> Liz Wilson >
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