The Simple Pleasures Project
“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth” ~ Bonnie Friedman This year, the unthinkable happened; I missed the spring pumpkin planting. The planting of the pumpkins is one of...
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Making an Elvin Archer Part 6: The Shirt
For shirt I used light green broadcloth, double-layered on the torso part, and single-layered on the sleeves. It’s one of the Renaissance style, large shirts. I kept it fairly short so there wouldn’t be a...
Making an Elvin Archer Part 5: The Shorts
To make the shorts, I took a pair of brown pants, kinda like sweatpants, but not quite so thick, and cut them off below the knee. Then I rolled the bottoms up a couple...
Making an Elvin Archer Part 4: The Skirt
For the skirt, I had enough faux suede left over from the cloak to make the skirt from that. This is probably the simplest part of the costume. I just cut the front section,...
Making an Elvin Archer Part 3: The Corset
Since this elvin archer is female, we needed a corset. I made this out of the same faux leather stuff as the bracers, but instead of putting fabric stiffener inside, I used two layers...
Canandaigua Farmers Market
Market opens tomorrow and runs every Saturday, through the last week of October. Canandaigua Farmers Market
Making an Elvin Archer Part 2: The Bracers
Here are the archer bracers. They look like leather, but they’re not (I love animals, so I rarely use real leather). It’s actually a polyester fabric, that kinda squeaks like leather, sewn around a...
Making an Elvin Archer Part 1: The Cloak
Got the elvin cloak done. It’s a dark green suede-look cloth (100% polyester). I wanted to use alova (my favorite material of choice), but I couldn’t find any in a dark green. This stuff looks...
Making An Elvin Archer
Got two Renaissance costume requests to work this week, a woodlandelf elf archer and a water fairy. They sent me sketches of what they wanted them to look like, and now I get to...
Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully, Wooly Bully
No, I’m not referring to the Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs song, I’m talking about my wooly little sheep Bullseye, whose nickname (well, one of his nicknames anyway, he’s got about 4) is...
