Sorry

I could have known that with may reenacting season will start and I will have very limited time to post...

What I dould not know, that besides dealing with work, sewing and events (4 in twelve days,yikes), I will also have to deal with health issues, from cold gotten at an event where there was rain all day, to the gallbladder/gallstones issues induced other problems, which not only took me out of comission for a week, but made me end up at the emergency services of the close-by army hospital, where I could observe the stateof our healthcare up close and personal. I am not fully ready to talk about that yet, the thing is there was no surgery at the end, I was allowed to come home, but then further unvestigations/exams, etcs will be necessary.

Anyhow, 

If not with the frequency of my winter-posting, I do have quite a few things to show you, so...

To be continued.

Weekly Patternmuster (sewing)

 The Joti Duster coat

Though where I live spring and fall gets shorter and shorter every year (except this one, when spring is long and unusually cold- at least I feel like it is), but we still need something for those times when a T sirt is not enough, a coat /sweater is just too much... 

These light, cape like coats are perfect for that. 

Disclaimer: I have NOT sewn this pattern (If I would've, I would write about it in a different post), so I cannot say wether it is a good pattern, how the instructions are etc. I come acrosss them when I searching for something, and I like them for some reason.

Weekly Patternuster (Knitting)

I admit, there are posts that I write ahead of time, trying to make a bit easier to have a more-or less regular and predictable blog.. 

The weekly patternmuster column is such, and I wrote three of them last week (among other things to be able to close a couple of windows on my browser), and I am sitting here comfortable... when I realized that those are sewing patterns, which -in theory- come every other week, thus I have no pretimes post for today...

At the same time, as I said, i am trying to find a knitting pattern from which my mom knitted me a sweater not long before she died, and while I am doing that I saved a TON of favorites in Ravelry.

Ugyanakkor, ahogy említettem, miközben elszántan próbálom megtalálni azt a kötésmintát, amiből anyukám kötött nekem egy pulóvert, mielőtt meghalt, rengeteg kedvencet mentettem el. 

Like this scarf , which I want to remember because the pattern reminds me very much to the one that sweater had.

Winterwonder scarf. 

Looking at it more closely, it also reminds me of the  Venezia sweater but maybe it is not as dense...

Disclaimer: I have NOT knitted this pattern (if I would have, I would write about it in a different type of post) so I have no idea how good the pattern is. I just come across it, when I was searching for something else and I liked it).

Weekly So

This week (and generally, always) I stronly oppose (umm, hate), that Facebook 8and the likes) wants to select what comments do I see. I understand that they the additional half minute I spend on the page with changing the setting to "all comments" is important for them, but thankyouverymuch, I am a grown woman, and I don't need anybody to decide for me, what is "most relevant", just gimme all the comments and I will roll and skip what does not interest me. (BTW it would not be such a bad thing, if either "all comments" or the "most relevant" could be set as a default setting (and it would stay that way).

Program-suggestion

 The villa of Ráth György is a part of the Museum of applied arts.

In there we will reenact a real event:

At the beginning of 1907, king and emperor Franz Joseph visited the villa, in the villa the widow of György Ráth, and viewed the artifacts in.

Come, let's play history together!

Futher details here. 

Weekly pattern-muster (sewing)

This one popped up in a FB group, but I have to admit, I love it very much, though I absolutely have no idea, where would I wear it.  :-) 

This is the Tecoma Blouse from Mood Society. 

If I would make this, most probably, I would make it from white linen (what else? LOL)

Coming: Reenactor musings

Ever since I thought that some more or less regular colums could come handy, I wanted to make a series about reenacting. Not sewing historical clothes, but generally (though sometimes about clothes), about misconceptions, things we get asked often, how did it started for me, and whatever else I can think up.

I will plan these on Fridays, but then I do NOT promise a post on each and every Friday.

Originally I thought to do alternate posts on Tuesdays (travel and reenacting) but in Hungarian reenacting circles Tuesday means something else (should there be a post about that too?).

I will start next week with a big topic: reenacting misconceptions: Stays and corsets. Are they the torture devices of paternal societies?