The weekend - Part 1

[mmcnealy]

So much happened this weekend.

Thursday I flew up to Seattle, a very warm Seattle! Had a great sushi dinner with Baroness AM and the some of the retinue crew. Then it was back to AM's house and I got started on putting the lining on the cloak. She had *just* enough linen left on the roll for me to line the cloak, I had to piece it in 3 places and had a super small scrap left! I was worried that it wasn't going to work out, but knew that somehow it would since everything else has on this project. I sewed the pieces together by hand and got the neck edge of the cloak lined before I fell into bed at midnight.

The next morning AM had to go into work for a few hours and I finished up the cloak while she was gone. We drove down to Orting WA to the lovely River Glen farms site and got her tent set up. Ysabelot and I sweet talked Guillome (sp?) into writting a little speech for us, and he did an excelent job.

Saturday morning dawned sunny and warmish. I was called into court and given a letter of reference to the Baroness in my new Barony here and then Ysabelot and I went up and presented Fiach with his new cloak.  His jaw dropped open and there was a gasp of surprise from the audience when I showed it to them. Needless to say, the cloak was well recieved and Fiach was very, VERY touched. Amazing what a little time and effort can do......

Much promissed pictures coming

 

 

Comments

[merastra.livejournal.com]

Wow, so that's what the secret was (reading in reverse order). That's so sweet of you guys.

Seattle visit

[slysidonia.livejournal.com]

Sophia, it was so nice to visit with you for awhile! The cloak was gorgeous!! He probably slept in it so he would not have to take it off!!
see ya,
sly

Re: Seattle visit

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Yup, he probably did. ;)

Thanks so much for all the great info on how to carve amber and other jewelry info, that really helped.