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Right, time for pictures of the embroidered pouch progress. It could wait til I had the drawstring and tassels done, but I am still thinking about that.

Pouch.
Pouch with scale.
Side of pouch showing tablet weaving.

I have photos of the WCOB Pelican cloak badge, but haven't posted those as not certain protocals there (though dragonermine has now seen it, so it can be posted off now).

And I said I would provide photos of the banners (well, I can link to some):
From Lady Sancha's photo collection
Me and 2 of the banners that basal_surge and I did. Picture stone was copied from the one Z linked to, and I did the interlace column to the left (there was another to the right). Need to thicken the black lines on the interlace at some point cause they do fade out a bit, especially by candle light.
What to do with doorways here and here, banners done mainly by Lady Sancha (with some assistance from various people), same method as the picture stone.

If you follow the photo set through, there are pigs heads, and murderous viking games with bats and ball, and woodworking (making the bats..), and flour grinding and forging*... All the usual fun stuff :)

You keep starting to go to bed and then someone links to cool stuff...

* Chalk up yet another camping event where bellows were manufactured by Z... And finishing the forge table.

That blackwork I mentioned, pictures now up here onwards.

( One or two pretty pictures... )

Down to 2 squares now.

Ever wondered what to do with all those pre-correction and revision, in progress bits of your thesis?*
Ever wanted to blow pages of (your) PhD thesis out of a cannon?

Finally got around to putting up the thesis destruction photos.

Sequence starts here
( And for direct viewing of a selection )

We did keep a smoky, partially burnt page as a souvenir. Forget where I put the scan of that.

*Please note that for the sake of not too much paper wastage, single sided pages were used as scrap paper and some was just straight recycled. But for those bits of cathartic destruction...

It has been quite a day for posting...
In any case, a selection of my Festival photos are up here. If you are in them and don't wish to be displayed, ping here and I can remove them, otherwise, sometime tomorrow I will pass on the link to more public places like the Lochac Shambles, AAF, and St Florians lists. Conversely, if you know people interested in the link, pass it on. Hopefully when I post the link, I will have the two other video links up and will post them all in one fell swoop.

So, after a bit of fiddling (we keep losing the image resizing software), I have just put some photos up. Ditched the sets on Trichnopoly and the elizabethan shirt (apologies to anyone that upsets - the photos are still there, just not the easy organisation), and replaced them with one of the CF photos and one on an Edwardian(?) riding jacket that belonged to Z's grandmother (Fanny Augusta Dixon (1904ish - 1974/5??? aged in 70s when died)). Definitely want to try and make a replica of that at some point. Wonder how easy it is to do a full length version... Feel free to point anyone you know interested in such clothing in the direction of those photos.

NB Riding jacket photos are from Weds evening after CF, when I am still at the lack of sleep/fuzzy stage. Not at my best.

Annoyed with the set limits on Flickr, however getting around them invovles paying money, so I am happy to skip that.
Anyone get any good photos of Z while being baronified or the stunned mullet expression afterwards?

Finished shirt now:)
( Just the one pic cause we can't find any batteries... )
Now I need another hand sewing project... other than the naalbinding.

Crossposted (slightly more formally) to med_embroidery

There was a lot of chocolate (photos behind cuts).
Five hours later and lots of doggie bags to the attendees, there is still a lot of chocolate. The milk chocolate will probably be taken into work on Mon and inflicted on any one around.
The setup:
5 milk chocolates: labelled anonymously A,B,C,D,E, with people ranking them best to worst. Yes, generally price did corelate with quality, however the cheaper Lindt was more popular than the more expensive Organic Green and Black. Dairy Milk and Whittikars just about tied behind those two and the Black and Gold milk cooking compound was far behind.
( The milk chocolate lineup )
Then there was the Dark chocolate tour, where we progressed through dark chocolates of increasing steps, going through 45% (Cadbury), 50% (mysterious Israeli), 70% (german, Cadbury, Richfields), 77% (Hachez german), 85% (Lindt), to 88% (Hachez german). Up to 70% was good, with Richfields being nicest - sort of smokey, but above 75% was just too strong and made your mouth dry up too much.
( The dark chocolate lineup )
Non- dairy ranged from not bad to wierd...
( The non-dairy lineup and others )
And there were lots of wierd flavours - the merlot and pinot noir ones were very popular. Strawberry and pepper was just wierd, and geranium (thanks staranise) was either really liked or really loathed.
( The unbroken lot )
There was also a chocolate fountain with flowing belgian chocolate.

The fruit and chips were definitely needed.

And unfortunately I have hit flickr download limits for the month, so no more pictures for a while.
Suprisingly, for the amount of chocolate I have eaten, I am quite tired. Time to bag a very large amount of chocolate and head off to bed I think.

Edits the following morning:
Next time less milk choc. We did 2 packets of each cause everyone would be trying it, but even with 20 people, we could have done with just a block of each.
Thumbs were quite sore from breaking, but despite that, next time break up finer. Especialy with the dark chocolates, you only wanted the tiny-ist quarter of a square. And after a while of chocolate, you just wanted a hint to establish the flavours and texture. It took 3 of us an hour and half to break them up as far as we did, and further breaking would have required a lot of knife work.
People were curious to try the different levels of dark choclate (definitely worth slowly stepping up in cocoa solid %), but did like the flavoured stuff the most.
Maybe next time a Schoc comparison evening... Smaller existing subset of people interested in the strange flavours but there are people interested. Not certain if can organise the purchase while over and then the evening in the next 2 weeks. May be a little busy then.

So, neck getting sore so stopped insanely detailed sewing. Switched to Viking trichnopoly ie looped wire work. Now I have blisters on my thumb...
( Follow the pretty LJ-cut to see pictures (5) of what trichnopoly looks like )
Next time, through second loop back rather than first for denser weave. Also finer mandrill so less space between loops. Also start wearing gloves sooner. But I think I'll let the fingers recover first.
Full set of photos here