VPC2017: Lady Melissa’s Belt With Bone Buckle and Strap End

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This belt is an entry from Lady Melissa – she started the project before BA, but this is acceptable for the category Remake, Reuse, Refashion, Reconsider (and it also fits in Show Us Your Arms). I believe this makes Lady Melissa’s fifth project, making her the second person to finish the five projects aspect of the Pentathlon, and earning her a prize to be awarded at a future event.

She says:
I started this project before BA, but it was sitting unfinished due to a number of challenges regarding safely riveting through bone and obtaining a suitable leather (which needed to be blue, as it was for Nathanael, whose device is a white stag on a blue field). I have finished it for the pentathlon challenge!This is a belt with a bone buckle and strap end. The buckle was carved out of cow bone, and the strap end is carved out of sheep bone. The strap is commercially veg-tanned blue leather. The buckle is loosely based on the Borre belt buckle, which features two wolves rather than two deer. The strap end is based on a Jelling-style dragon strap end, modified to represent a stag instead. The belt is slightly less than 2cm wide.

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VPC2017: Mistress katherine k’s Baby’s Charm and Teether

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This is an entry for the categories Child’s Play, and The Neck Best Thing: a baby’s charm and teether.

Mistress katherine says:

In Detti’s Madonna della Pergola (painted in 1523), a young child holds a light chain which carries a piece of coral, a cross, a token, a coin or pilgrim badge and a dog’s tooth. The coral and the tooth were used as teethers; the remainder were to call upon less physical aid.
This charm from my swaddling days holds coral to ward off the plague, a cross from Rome, an angel, and a pilgrim’s scallop from Santiago de Compostela.

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VPC2017: Mistress katherine k’s Ka-Mal – a latitude stick

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Another entry of a nautical nature by Mistress katherine k – a latitude stick. This entry is for the categories Oh Say Can You Sea?, String Theory and For Science!

She says:

Arabs and the sea-farers of India use these sticks to determine their latitude while upon the waves. da Gama and the Portugeuse have recently brought this knowledge to our seas. The ka-mal is held out at arm’s length matching the horizon at one end and the celestial centre of the sky at the other. Knots in the string are set for the latitudes of desired ports. Hold the port knot in your teeth and the ka-mal will tell you your required course north or south.

In this case, the knots have been set for the latittudes of the important settlements in the Crescent Isles, and will be tested against the sky during my travels.

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VPC2017: Lady Melissa and Lord Nathanael’s Baby Booties

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Another combined entry from Melissa and Nathanael, for the categories Child’s Play, Hitting Below The Knee, String Theory, Counting On Sheep, Back To Basics.

Melissa says:
These are naalbound baby booties. Our (non-scadian) flatmates have a baby, who needed warm socks for the winter to keep the chillblains away. Since we had leftover homespun from some other projects, this seemed like a good opportunity! Melissa prepared the fleece and spun the wool, Nathanael did the naalbinding. The booties have a linen re-enforced toe.

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VPC2017: Baroness Agnes’ Banner

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This entry is Baroness Agnes’ second, a painted banner submitted for the category Show Us Your Arms

She says:

The plan was quite simple: paint the Hous Amberhearthe badge on to one of those big white pieces of fabric I got from Kutwells. The execution was complicated by the intervention of the feline, eventually requiring the white of the ermine border to be painted in due to green pawprints. However, I am pleased with the final effect. In the end the whole banner had about 7 coats of paint! The white was trimmed down, a backing of heavy linen tacked on, sewn, inverted, pressed and hand finished. Pole inserted and braided cord attached.

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VPC2017: Baroness Agnes’ Muff

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Baroness Agnes presents this muff, which was made as a gift for Baroness Ginevra, for the category Cover Me.

She says:
The plan was to make a muff to keep hands warm at winter events. That got upgraded to make a fancy muff as a gift for Her Excellency with whom I had discussed my muff plans in the past. Muffs become popular in Europe towards the end of our period. They were typically lined with fur, the outer being either fur or some other fabric. I chose some jacquard I knew Her Excellency would like due to colour and pattern, and some black synthetic fur I had already.  Embellishments were done in white so that the outer was blue and white, the colours of Her arms. The pattern was a simple rectangle. The outer fabric was beaded first then lined with heavier fabric to give the muff some structure. The fur was pinned on, and the pieces were sewn together, turned out and finished. Buttons were added. These were added a little in from the edge as I have discovered joining the muff at the edge lets the draft in – a little overlap keeps one’s fingers nice and toasty.

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VPC2017: Mistress katherine k’s Spindle Whorls

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Undaunted by having technically already completed the challenge, Mistress katherine has continued to submit entries. This project – spindle whorls, is submitted for the category Tool Me Once.

Mistress katherine says about this project:
I made a batch of these for a Kingdom A&S entry last year and promptly lost them at the event. Here’s another attempt; I’m still not happy with them, so will give them another go, but I have learned more on this second attempt, which means the third lot should be better, right?
You can read all about the overall project on Mistress katherine’s own webpages here.

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VPC2017: Mistress katherine k’s Armorial Tombstone

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Submitted for the categories Forget Me Not, and Show Us Your Arms, this entry marks Mistress katherine’s fifth entry into the Challenge, and makes her the first person to meet the Pentathlon requirement, and complete the Challenge!

She will receive a prize for doing so.

Here is her description:
This rather macabre project involved producing a tracing of katherine kerr’s tombstone, which is very similar to that of her cousin Ionet Ker (Lady Restalrig). According to the 1927 drawing made by S.T. Calder in Restalrig Church, Janet Kerr died on the 12 Day of Maii Anno 1596. Katherine’s tombstone follows the same pattern, but notes that she died on the 31 Daie of Dec 1599 (the last day of the SCA period); cites her as being a Pelican & Laurel; and includes her arms (with the hopefully soon-to-be-passed augmentation) marshalled with those of her husband Master Bartholomew Baskin. You can find Ionet Ker’s tombstone here.

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VPC2017: Mistress katherine k’s Travel Coronet, Coif and Necklace

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Mistress katherine has been very busy indeed, submitting several projects to me at once.

These three are a Travel Coronet (Remake, Reuse, Refashion, and Show Us Your Arms, and Embellish It), a Coif (Embellish It) and the Kerr Necklace (The Neck Best Thing)

About the travel coronet, Mistress katherine writes: This tablet-woven mini coronet was inspired by Viscountess Mountjoye’s spiffy example at Faire. It uses one of the lovely tablet-woven garters Mistress Catherine d’Arc gave me which displays the curs’ heads and tower from my arms as well as my livery colours or red, white and blue and my motto. It is embellished with the six pearls of a Court Baroness; the copper and brass mounts are actually letterpress printers’ thins used to make leadtype tight when setting text, a reference to my Laurel speciality.

 The coif details are: Adding pearls, beads and some couched gold thread and trim has blinged up a plain commercially made hairnet. 

Finally, the Kerr Necklace: This necklace is based on the well-known portrait of Anne Boleyn from the UK’s National Portrait Gallery, in which Anne has a capital B suspended from a pearl choker around her neck. I’ve had a craftwood initial K for a number of years, but delayed making this, hoping to be able to find a metal K rather then use a wooden one. Some slathering of gold paint has produced something that may pass in low light and I finally found a use for the large string of big freshwater pearls I’ve had for a while. The portrait of Anne Boleyn can be found here.

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