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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Welcome, Liz.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Baroness Radegund</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bjornsborg (San Antonio)</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=ewilson618@tx.rr.com href="mailto:ewilson618@tx.rr.com">Liz
Wilson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=ansteorra-textiles@lists.ansteorra.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:46
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Ansteorra-Textiles] New to the
SCA and the Textiles List</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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!) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> 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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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!!"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Liz Wilson</FONT> </DIV>
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