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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: 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: Mistress katherine k’s Tudor Lead Sounding Line Scale Model

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For Mistress katherine’s seventh entry in the challenge, she has made a scale model of a Tudor lead sounding line, complete with traditional fathom markers. This is submitted for the categories Oh Say Can You Sea?, and String Theory.
She bashed a hollow into the base of the lead sinker to fill it with lard.

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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 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 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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VPC2017: Mistress katherine k’s Award Cords

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More in Mistress katherine’s industrious output, these Award Cords, presented for the categories String Theory, Give What You Get, and Fly The Colours (and Out of Your Comfort Zone)

She says:
Half-a-dozen award cords in baronial colours. This could also count in Out of Your Comfort Zone as I used this to learn how to do four-ply braiding which I’d never done before. Strings are definitely not my thing, but I’ll keep practising the four-ply as I liked the result.

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VPC2017: Lady Margaretta’s Painted Chair

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This painted chair back is Lady Margaretta’s entry for Embellish It.
She has taken an existing blue fabric chair, and embellished it with black and white paint by painting her device on it (this means it also qualifies for Show Us Your Arms)

Here are before and after shots:

Before – A plain chair
After – no doubts about ownership now!
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VPC2017: Mistress Amalie’s Award Cord Token

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This fingerloop braid was made by Mistress Amalie, and qualifies for the categories The Neck Best Thing and String Theory, as well as Give What You Get, as it is intended as an award cord.

As she has written an informative post for the excellent Lochac Fibre Guild website, it also qualifies for Those Who Can, Also Teach.
This cord comes from the Harley 2330 Manuscript, and is called A Grene Dorge. Further details on the pattern and instructions are available from her post on the Lochac Fibre Guild website here

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PC2017: Lord Nathanael and Lady Melissa’s Naalbound Jumper

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This is another joint entry from Lady Melissa and Lord Nathanael. It is intended for the categories Back To Basics, Counting On Sheep, String Theory and Cover Me!

Lady Melissa writes:
It is a woolen naalbound jumper, constructed using the Oslo stitch. The yarn was spun by Melissa, who also washed and carded the fleeces–both colours are the natural colour of the sheep. Nathanael did the naalbinding. We had to work to keep up with each other, a speed project that took about a month! Because it was worked with doubled yarn, it is very warm!

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