The demo was interesting. Danielle was the only person from our group who I managed to connect with in time to bring. Sir Andras and Mistress F’uil did loan us a big bin of cool show and tell stuff. None of the Canton of Charlesbury Crossing made it, either, but Asza from Balefire Dunn and Mistress Susanna from Aire Faucon did come with Dulcimer and recorder and spinning and weaving set-up respectively. I did a group participation version of Hamlet with the kids, then we played “drop glove” a medieval version of duck, duck, goose and we danced a tangle bransle and the Maltese bransle. The kids liked those. Then 15-20 minutes of show and tell, and off they went. There were probably 75-100 people, kids and adults. The library gave us a donation of $50 as well. The weather was warm, but the site was shady. All things considered, a good demo given our extremely restricted participation.
The weather finally broke on Thursday night. It rained like crazy with lots of thunder and lightning. Tom was thrilled. Now it’s humid and overcast in the mid 80’s.
Yesterday I worked on a blue dress in the style of the 14th century fitted kirtles. I’m having some sleeve problems which I think I can fix with deeper underarm gussets. Sleeves are always my falling down point. After this, I promised Tom some fencing hoods for the loaner gear, then I’m going to make him a doublet that will hopefully fit him.
Never a dull moment around here.
Sparkly Things 