I recently decided I want to start making largess for my Baron and Baroness. :) Since we have a large contingent of college students I dec...

Hello Friends!! Here is a gift bag using "Flowering Dogwood" collection.  It's a small bag perfect for any occasion. Give your love to y...

Period Head Coverings OR, alternately, What Hat Goes with My Outfit? Part I: Early Period to 12th Century I'm not a "Cover your head!" Nazi, but I do think that it adds to the Medieval-esque feel of an event when more people wear the correct hat. For most of the SCA period, head coverings (head-ware)…

Heraldic Tableware Set With Golden Embroideries

Last year, I participated in the Sable Swap, a kingdom-wide secret gift exchange. You may remember that I made an embroiderer's kit for my assigned giftee. It was easy to decide what to do because, as an embroiderer, I know what I would love to receive. This time, though, I got a gentleman with an

Flatware holders made by Mistress Anya and Mistress Shoshanna of Atenveldt. These were gifts for the populae attending this food based competition event. These would be nice for largesse. I will post one more pic to show detail.

Some needlebooks finished last winter and given for largesse

ow many of these projects are there going to be? Actually quite a lot, considering how many pouches we produced in a year....that doesn't count the pincushions and then needlerolls and other such things. Well.... Random pouch images - ...and these have a page here: http://wp.me/p4yKTJ-iZ Needles - We made a whole series of needles and needlecases…

Wow! A whole YEAR since I last posted? Yikes! I have been doing stuffs. I have Made Things. :) Sadly, I have once again repeatedly let thi...

I admit it, I'm a bit of a magpie. I love pretty, shiny things. Jewelry, goldwork embroidery, silk, you name it. Some of my favorite gifts and largesse have been veil pins, which feel my shiny addiction nicely. A local bead store was going out of business recently, and had a ton of items on

Largesse idea for gardeners

I've been wanting to come up with some good things that I can create for largess (for non SCA people this is things that are given as gifts and thank yous) that will be handy, relatively inexpensive and lend to a more historically accurate looking group. I love waxed linen covers because they are all…

I've written in the last entry that Calontir is in a Norse reign, and as a result of that, I got to do some research in bits and pieces for Her Majesty Ylva to give as tokens.  As I can't make all of them myself, this entry will serve as a way for those who…

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We welcome and appreciate the donation of appropriate items for use as largesse. Our artisans often work long hours in the privacy of their homes and We wish to…

Diu Minnezît - Paternoster aus Korallen-und Elfenbeinperlen

I just realized how much stuff I don't have reported to Bella, in addition to all the items I haven't shown pictures of here.  So much for...