Cheklov's Stuff

So, for a looooong time I've been planning on decorating this wooden craft chest I've had kicking around for the better part of ten years, and then filling the damn thing up with largesse and inflicting the resulting craft monster on An Tir's Largesse coordinator (because no way am I presenting this thing directly to whoever the sitting royals are when I finally get it filled - it's taken like two years to get THIS far, so lord knows when I'll actually FINISH). I've actually made a start on the contents - the painted drop spindles and the viking hats are meant for this undertaking, after all. A few days ago the bug to start getting serious on at least finishing out the box bit me hard, and I drafted up an initial plan on how this stupid thing would be painted. Promising, but of course later on I ran into problems and had to rethink this, HEAVILY. So anyway, today I found the chest, emptied it out (incidentally I found 1. my missing grey hoodie and 2. some more f...

So, I'm not sure why this never made it on the blog, but for a while I was making some really nicely ugly 6-panel wool and "linen" viking hats for my SCA largesse chest project. I'll probably get more into that later, but suffice to say, it's been in progress for 2-plus years and is proceeding at the speed these things normally do, for me. Hahaha... *sigh* I don't actually know how period these babies are, but they're pretty accepted as a nice, comfortable and stylish hat at events. I think it's justified based on a Birka find, but that might have only been a four panel hat - I'm just not sure, and I'm honestly too lazy to get into the research again. (I lied, I looked, and yeah, there was a 6-panel hat from Birka .) Mine are... okay, so my wool? In these it's basically an old olive drab wool blanket. It's a nice, ugly color that I could achieve with natural dyes if I tried, and my "linen" is (on hat 1) an old linen tablecloth...

And now, we are caught back up to my latest box. Maybe the next box will get posted around the same time I receive it next month, but maaaan, I am not sure I'd hold my breath on that one. Ideally I'll be posting more about crafts and maybe getting the downstairs and craft room finally organized. IT'S ONLY BEEN OVER A YEAR SINCE I MOVED AND STILL I HAVE PILES INSTEAD OF A NICE ORGANIZED CRAFT ROOM. Oh June box. You fill me with a vague desire to be productive which I know that I will not follow up on. Yet. First look at the box, and then the view of the newsletter. Has a lot of information about the Ramie fiber included in this month's box, as seen in the box menu below: We've got some purple! Oh wow, we've DEFINITELY got some purple going on this month, wow. First look at the contents of the box; I see something already that makes it worth summoning the Tea Cryptid forth to assist. The Tea Cryptid, if you haven't already guessed based on previous posts, is m...

Hey. You know what May marks? May marks one year of being subscribed to the Paradise Fiber club box. That's RIGHT. One whole damn year of amazing fiber goodness, keeping my crafting and fiber addiction mostly under control by it's very existence. And look at this bulging shipping box???? Very light and sunny. Next, we have our newsletter, and our closeup on the month's menu. I hope everyone else notices that MONSTER 6 ounces of a single fiber listed. The explains the bulging box! Oh good LAWD, look at that thing. I straight up hauled this puppy out, fondled it, and then realized I needed SOMETHING for scale on this monster. This is the 6 oz. of Mountain Meadows USA Cormo Wool Combed Top and also that same fiber with an IPhone SE for scale. It niiiiiiice. SO MUCH FIIIIBER. Next, you can see the goody bag, along with 1 oz. of Cestary 100% Pure USA Lanolin (the menu said 2 oz, but that was a confirmed typo). I dunno what I'm gonna use it for, but I have it now. Above, we h...