Starting on my leather coronet

 I've been a Court Baron now for almost exactly 4 years, since Avelyn and I stepped down as B&B of the Althing in November 2021. So I should probably get around to actually having some sort of coronet to wear.

As an interim measure, I've decided to figure out how to make a leather coronet.

My goal is to have a simple prototype ready for when we got to our first Feast of the Hare since we stepped down, later this month.

Using the maths and the geometries, I traced out a pattern so that I have the six points equally spaced out around my head measurement. Once I made sure it actually worked, I copied it onto the leather, cut it ourt and burnished all my edges.

Next up, I took my handy dandy groover tool and marked out the separater between the silver body and the gold "piping" along the edges (in Ealdormere, former Territorials can have gold coronets but I feel like that makes it hard to distinguish us from current Territorials, so I thought the gold edge on silver might work better).

Today I picked up the gold and silver leather paint in the city, so later this week I'll get started on the white base layer and then get her all shiny. :)

Pictures to follow once the project is done.

Dusting off the blog - what's new

Since I posted a new page today linking to my new leather dye database (see the top menu of the blog), I figured I should do a post to catch everyone up on what's been going on since I last posted...in 2020 (eek).

Back then we were Baroness and Baron, and our Barony was hosting Kingdom A&S. As the hosting Baron, I was prepping a very cool Kingdom A&S project. It was ready to go and I was pretty excited about it. Then the pandemic happened, and Kingdom A&S was cancelled. (I'll probably post about the project in a future post.)

Then the plague year happened....

In 2021, at the tail end of the pandemic, we stepped down as B&B and moved to the other end of Ontario. At the new house, we have much less crafting space, so A&S activities have been limited. We've taken a bit of a step back to deal with life, but I'm still around and going to a couple of mostly-local events a year. 

Quick summary:

• Taught two belt making classes at our local museum, using vinegroon to dye the belts
• Taught an intro to leather pouch making class at an A&S day for a local shire
• Worked on my dye database
• Bodged a few fixes to things

With the lack of space, I've been diving into more period cooking instead, having done a deep dive into period meso-American cooking. My pantry is full of fun Aztec ingredients. I entered some period-plausible tamales at our most recent Kingdom A&S.