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Hyvät häävieraat,

muistattehan ilmoittautua 11.8. mennessä. Juhlatilamme on ravintola, joten meidän täytyy toimittaa osallistuja määrät ajoissa heille.

toivottavasti olette huomioineet myös hääsivustollamme sivun “erityishuomioita”. Koska juhlatilamme on myös museo, on otettava huomioon muutamia erityisseikkoja. Kiitos.

Long time since I’ve updated my project process. This doesn’t mean that nothing has happened. On the contrary, I have been working a lot on the project: wedding.

I have been weaving, making patterns for costumes, sewing protos, making shoes and working on other small leather artifacts. I have finished the green brocade I posted earlier about. I have also weaved two wide belts for my mother and my mother-in-law to be. My current weaving project is pink brocade. I will post pictures as soon as possible….

I have been ordering shoes, fabrics and pewter items around the world, but wedding preparations have also taken us to travel. Today I have been tired after yesterdays trip to Tallinn, Estonia. Me and  my fiancé took early ship from Helsinki and spend the day in Tallinn running from shop to another in search for materials for the wedding. We got embroidery threads, beads and silk-like ribbons from craft wholesale shop Karnaluks, 100 meters of linens from LinenWorld and collected pre-ordered plates and mugs from ceramics shop Fortuuna. Since we where lucky in our trip and all we found all we needed quickly, we treated ourselves with nice medieval dinner in Olde Hansa.

Preparing medieval wedding is not just making crafts, its also planting flowers. I am not a green finger by any means, but today I have, planted some humulus, ie hop vine. I hope I can tackle plant pests this summer and keep the vine looking nice. It would be nice wedding decoration if I succeed. I am all the time thinking about all the sewing and embroidery I still need to do, but from now on I have to also keep in mind: water the humulus and remember to spray with pesticide.

My projects at the moment are headed towards my wedding next summer. The list of crafts to do is a mile long, since I have to wardrobe the wedding party of 6 people. Plus I have to host few craft weekends during the spring for the quests who wish to make medieval costumes for them selves.

I will try and update the progress of my crafts here, but I think will not tell what they all are for or for whom. This is because I like to try and keep some element of surprise to my wedding guests of whats to come.

This first project is my tablet weaving project no. 1. This is a brocade pattern no. 15 from Anna Neuper’s Modelbuch by Nancy Spies. This is my very first attempt at brocade technique and since I have plenty of wool yarns I decided to use wool instead of getting metallic one for this first attemt. I think the pattern looks nice even with wool.

This second project is German brickstitch embroidery project. People who are familiar with medieval brickstitching, might gues what it will be, but lets keep the mystery for others to figure out. Again I’m using my wool yarns for this project instead of silk.

Fellow or friend, ye be welcome.

Here shall you find me, Olive, chattering about my medieval life and crafts.