Roc's Nest

Pelican Scroll

2009-07-01T05:39:00.000-07:00

It has been quite a while since I last wrote anything in my blog. The Barony of Smoking Rocks holds its largest event in June, Vinland Raids. This year it was especially difficult since it also hosted the King and Queen's Archery Championships. I spent quite a bit of time making targets and setting up the tournament. On top of that I got a tick bite from which I got both Lyme disease and Babesiosis. I have been spending the last couple weeks recovering from both of those and the side effects of the antibiotics I was on. Anyway, now all of that is over and I can get back to working on projects.

Back at the beginning of June I had a scroll due. I showed the very beginning of it back in May. It was the first peerage scroll I was assigned and I especially wanted to do a good job on it. This picture shows the scroll when it was about half done. At this point I hadn't even decided what was going to go into the final medallions. In the end there were 2 medallions which I did not really like. The ones which hold the archery equipment. The way the red paint convered the yellow did not work out the way I wanted it to. It ended up looking a little clumpy and crude. All together, though, I am happy with the way it turned out.

The scroll was based on The Grandes Heures of Jean Duke of Berry. Unfortunately it is very hard to see the fine details on this picture. This is scroll # 22 for the A&S challenge.

2009-05-07T14:16:00.000-07:00

Well, I guess it is not going to be quite that easy to get started on the gloves. typically I found I need a few other thing before I can get going. I did find some beautiful pictures of flowers in Mira calligraphiae. The book I am using is still under copyright so I cannot post pictures here unfortunately. Here is a link to the book I used which shows a couple of pictures of flowers, but not any of the ones I am planning on using. http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=1756&handle=book&pg=1

The ones I chose are a tulip, iris, violet, lilly and columbine. I do want to check on the symbolism behind the various types of flowers before I make my final decisions.

Then I looked into my fabric stash to see if I could find some nice satin, preferably silk. Ha! Just as I was writing that I suddenly remembered I had stashed a bunch of silk remnants in a drawer in my bedroom. I just found the perfect piece: a beautiful white silk satin just the right size. that is one hurdle over.

I did have to go to the store and pick up a new embroidery frame. I already have two, but of course they already have a partly finished project on them. Now I have one just for the gloves. I also have enough white linen for the interlining. Next I need to figure out the size of the cuffs and mount the fabrics on the frame.

I am very excited. I just ordered a new book from Australia on early bobbin lace. http://www.lacedaisypress.com.au/publication1.html I have her beginners book on bobbinlace which I think is one of the best for complete, but not intense instructions. The picture on the cover of the new book shows some great examples. According to the blurb, there are 30 patterns in it. that is a huge number. Up until now, I have only been able to find maybe 10 reprductions of pre-seventeenth century pieces. If I cannot find a lace pattern in here for the outside edge of the gloves, I will have to start working on one of my own interpretations.

In the mean time I am working on my first peerage scroll. It is a Pelican, the society's highest award for service. I asked my apprentice sister to do the calligraphy for me. When I picked it up last weekend with the words written in, I was greatly impressed. Eva is really very good at doing the Gothic hand. Eventhough she did feel obliged to point out her worst word. Even her worst word was better than all mine. Well anyway, for my part I have just started putting the gold in. Luckily I have 6 weeks to finish this scroll, it is going to take a long time. This is as far as I have gotten so far. The calligraphy is covered to protect it, and keep the recipient a secret for now. As you can see, I am not very far along yet.

2009-04-25T13:58:00.000-07:00

I have decided I want to use this blog in a slightly different manner than I have been doing. I want to follow some of the projects from their conception to their completion. Eventhough, it may take years for some of them.

I am going to start with a pair of gloves. There are quite a few pairs of 16th and 17th century gloves on the worshipful glove makers website. http://www.glovecollectioncatalogue.org/ I have been especially smitten by accession number 23345 (to see a picture of the specific pair of gloves click on the "Spence Collection at Bath 23337-23361, then scroll down to number 23345). They have everything I have been looking for. I wanted to do a fairly small project with gold embroidery. The metal work on these gloves are all styles I know how to do. The small bobbinlace edging should be an easy-ish pattern to duplicate. In addition, the embroidered flowers are gorgeous. I really like to more realistic look of these. They remind me of the flowers pictured in Mira Calligraphae. I even get to try making a stumwork tree. Another motif I have been wanting to try.

According to the glove makers website, the lower part of the gloves are leather and the decorated part is satin. The first part will be to find some satin in my fabric collection and start designing the patterns. I am not going to worry about how to make the actual glove part yet. I do not think I have any apropriate leather at the moment so that will have to wait a while.

I have completed one more scroll for the challenge. This is scroll number 21. That means 29 left to complete my challenge. I still have many years so it is looking good for completion of this part of my challenge.

I am also starting my first peerage scroll. It is off getting the calligraphy done right now. I usually do my own calligraphy, but I am the first to admit I am not great at it. My apprentice sister Eva, on the other hand, is much better than I. Therefore she is helping me out on this one. The scroll is based on the Grande Heures of Jean Duke of Berry. I sketched out the pattern before I gave it to her so she knows where to put the calligraphy.

2009-03-01T05:44:00.000-08:00

The table runner is finally finished. I don't think I will include another picture of it. I have certainly posted enough. Anyway the most recent photos were only missing one row of lace so they are pretty close. So now I am at the enviable spot of being able to start a new project. I think starting new projects is my favorite part. I did a small trial piece of lace from the book by Brigitte Bellon " Gekloppelte Reticella". This is one of my favorite books for bobbinlace patterns. I think she has a nice collection of patterns that look very similar to picture of existent pieces from Italy in the 16th C. This is the 19th piece of lace I have made for the 50 challenge.

In the scroll category, I just finished a grant of arms based on the Codex Purpureus scrolls. The person getting the scroll has a Roman personna, so I was trying to get something that would have been appropriate for her period and era. It is a fairly simplistic type of scroll and I was a little leary about making it for an award as high level as a grant , but in the end I really wanted to stay closer to her personna than make something flashy and inappropriate. I also wrestled with the idea of leaving the scroll with the original greek letters or move to the roman letters which is closer to her personna. In the end I stayed with the Greek letters that were on the original scroll. The Midrealm Dragon in the picture is actually green, but the picture does not show that very well.

I have chosen the next big project for lace making. The new Janet Arnold book "Patterns of Fashion 4" has 2 smocks on page 60. One of them has inserts of bobbinlace in a chevron pattern, adn the other is made of recycled cutwork. I am going to try making a chemise with bobbinlace insert. I think I will try making the chemise pattern from the cutwork chemise though. The chevron pattern is a little more difficult, and I would rather start with the slightly easier piece. For a lacemaker that book is absolutely gorgeous. We usually have to make do with photos of portraits. This book shows real closeups of the lace itself. I am looking forward to trying to workout the patterns of a some of them myself instead of depending of someone else's version of the pricking. I am almost far enough along with bobbinlace to be comfortable enough with the techniques to try making up my own patterns for the pictured pieces.

2009-02-01T07:29:00.000-08:00

I have been waiting patiently to post again. I have a group of scrolls that just got finished, but I had to wait for them to be given out before I could post about them. The first 2 were both given out at Kingdom 12th night. The Grand master bowman on the left was a back-log scroll which should have origianally gone out a couple years ago. I was actually very lazy about this one. I was given the assignment months before I even started it. The second one on the right is a Sagitarius (the order of high merit for archery in the East Kingdom). These 2 were numbers 17 and 18 for the challenge.

Then 2 weeks later at Birka the AOA I made for Alys went out. this piece was #19. I am making a good dent in the 50 scrolls I want to get done. I however, am not too happy with some aspects of these latest scrolls. I just don't seem to be getting any better at the Gothic script. I especially enjoy the later period scrolls, so I really need to get better at it. Ygraine told me there were exercises I could use to make it better. I am going to have to get back to her about that. The other part is the shading. Sometimes it works very well, and other time not so much. I would like to get a little more consistent with it, but I think that is a case of more practice.

I have also gotten a couple more piece of lace finished. There is only one more piece to finish the table runner now. It has now gotten long enough that I have to either hang it on a door, or clean off my project table to get a picture of it. you will notice it is on the door. I am beginning to look forward to finishing this project. I have so many other things in mind that I want to make.

2008-12-21T14:10:00.000-08:00

I have not posted in quite a while. I have been busy working on the table runner, smock, and scrolls.

First the table runner. I have finished the unicorn and 2 of the bobbinlace dividers. I am putting the runner together with spacers of linen with hemstitched edges.

As you can see, I am still missing a couple of the elements. The bobbinlace piece on the right is not attached yet, and the one for the other side is not finished. As a matter of fact it is barely begun.
I have about 1/2 a repeat done so far. The finished ones are 8 repeats long. I should be done fairly soon after the new year. I get a fair amount of time off at this time of year.

The spacers of linen are hemmed and attached to the edges of the lace pieces. Just a little bit of hemstitching keeps the lacy touch I am trying for. I have not decided whether I am going to do some whitework in the linen spacers. I may keep that part of the project for another day.

The Lacis piece was #7 in my A&S 50 challenge, and the 2nd bobbinlace insert is #16. There was quite a while between the start and finish of that lacis piece.

The smock has been moving along very slowly. More because I keep moving it to the back burner, than because it is difficult. The smocking was mostly finished back in August. I took it to a smocking round table discussion at Pennsic. The best piece of advice I got was to add a couple more lines to the smocking. After I had done that I think it has a smoother more finished look. In the picture you can see the stabilization band that I put on the back.

The ruffle is just hemmed. One of these days I would love to make another smock with bobbinlace around the neck, and a couple of inserts of lace. It is on the "list". I chose not to gather the ends of the sleeves to approximate the looser style. I have the fabric to make an Italian gown to go over it. I have decided I would like to finish it for Birka which is at the end of Jan. That gives me about 1 month to make it. We will see if that is too ambitious.

I have only finished one scroll since the last time I updated this blog, and unfortunately I do not seem to have made a scan of the finished piece. I really have a memory of doing it, but can't find it in the computer anywhere. Oh well, anyway it was a persian style AOA which would make it #16 for the challenge. At least I get an oportunitty to make up for my mistake. I have 3 scrolls due in the next month that I will try really hard to make scans or copies of.

another scroll and lace update

2008-10-09T13:20:00.000-07:00

I have been working along on the A&S 50 challenge. As I go I seem to be starting more and more complex projects. I have decided the latest lace project is going to be a table runner with 2 lacis panels and 3 lines of bobbinlace surrounding them.

The first strip of bobbinlace is finished. The bobbinlace I am using is a repicated pattern from a 16th C Piece in "Onder de Leop" by Nora Andries. It looks quite a bit like a connecting piece used in an Italian lace piece in "Old Italian Lace" from the 17th C. It uses 40 bobbins and 60/2 linen thread. This is the first piece I have made from that book. This was the 15 piece of lace for the challenge.

To go with the bobbinlace I finished the first piece of the lacis. I posted a picture of it when it was partially done before. The lion is now done and the accompanying unicorn is started. At the moment the unicorn is kind of creepy. It looks like a unicorn torso, but it is going quickly and will pick up a head and feet pretty quick. In the meantime it is appropriate for the All-Hallowed Evening holiday coming up later this month. Because of a long delay between the start of the lion and the start of the unicorn they are numbers 7 and 16 respectively.

On the other hand I finished another scroll. This one is a silver cresent done in the Persian style. The recipient has a Persian personna in the SCA (http://www.sca.org/) so the style was especially appropriate. I really like making scrolls in the Persian style eventhough I consider them to be difficult. Some of the pieces from the Safavid period are almost unbelievably beautiful. With dragons appearing from around trees, and extraordinarily complex patterns on the buildings and tents of the people, they are gorgeous. I have not attempted to make one that is close to the more complex patterns. I think it could take months of continual and hard work. For now I chose to replicate a picture of a tree which dissappears behind the script box. This was the 15th scroll out of the 50 I want to complete for the challenge.

Lots of bobbinlace

2008-08-28T15:32:00.001-07:00

Well it has been a while since I last posted. July was busy with preparations for Pennsic (the SCA camping event in Western Pennsylvania, http://www.pennsicwar.org/). I was setting up a camp for our Barony for the first time this year. It was both the first time our Barony had its own camp, and the first time I had ever done landgrab. It was an interesting experience. I am looking forward to doing it again next year....but anyway. It makes for a busy July and August.

While at Pennsic I had a chance to talk to a lacemaker about how I was doing with my pieces. She recommended that I try doing the set of exercises from Cook's book "The torchon Lace Workbook". In my usual all or nothing style, I immediately came home and did the first 7 lessons. Therefore I have 9 new pieces of lace for the 50 challenge. The picture shows 8 pieces from the series of lessons. I will admit I ran through the earlier ones pretty quickly and did not even bother to finish them. The full length multicolored one were slightly more advanced and therefore fun so I finished them up. The other piece I have started is from "Onder de Loep". The third piece in that book. I plan on putting it between the lacis pieces on a table runner. the lion I started will be one of the three panels.

Black scrolls

2008-07-02T17:04:00.000-07:00

Well it is about time I had something to write about. Last weekend I went to the King and Queen's Archery Championships here in the East Kingdom. I had been asked to make scrolls for the winners. I decided to make a couple of scrolls which were based on the Mira calligraphae. I am fairly happy with the way they came out. Interestingly, I ended up giving the scroll on the right, the one for the Queen's champion to my own son. He won the competition. I was not expecially expecting that. This was the 13th and 14th scroll for the 50 challenge. I have another one which I just finished which I can post after this weekend when it is given out.

I also started a filet lace project in the shape of a lion. I did a fair amount of travelling last month and found that I could do it in a moving vehicle. It fills three separate roles for me. It is the 6th piece of lace for my 50 challenge. I have been working towards completing all the categories of embroidery in the Athena's Thimble, and lacis is one of the last categories I have left. I included the close up so you can see the cloth stitch I am using to fill in the pattern. Finally, I have taken it into my head to try each form of lace which can be traced back to pre-17th century. So far I have made a piece of Reticella, Filet lace, bobbin lace, and teneriffe. So many still to try.

Barony members flags

2008-05-09T04:42:00.000-07:00

Since I am using this blog to detail my experiences with the A&S 50 challenge, I should write about the flags people have been making. One of my challenges is to make 50 pieces of "dress up" for our Baronial camps. We have only been a Barony of the East Kingdom for about 5 years. When we bacame a Barony we slightly changes our device. Therefore we dis not have any heraldic flags to represent ourselves. Now I could not see making 50 pieces with heraldry just for the Barony, so I asked people if they wanted to make personal flags to decorate the camp also. This was we end up with lots of flutterys, and a little more bling. Toward this end we have been making silk flags with our own heraldry on them (or any pattern for that matter).

Here are some of the flags which have been made so far. I am using a resist method for them. Most of the materials have come from dharma Trading Post at: http://www.dharmatrading.com/

We are using 44" square silk handkerchiefs with hand rolled hems, Jacquard silk colors with the green label and Pebeo gutta in black. I like this resist because it does not have to be removed and it leaves a fine black outline around the patterns. I was originally worried about it adding some weight to the fabric which would limit the flutteriness (is that a word?), but it does not seem to be a problem. When the gutta dries it adds very little to the fabric. It may be an issue if you had a piece with a huge amount of outlining, but no one has had any issues with it yet. There is a rinse step at the end which uses a fair amount of water. We have been hanging them up and spraying them down with the hose. Now that it is getting warmer again, we can start working on them again. So far 23 have been made. The target , of course, is 50 and we are already about half way there.

Mine is the blue and yellow flag with a single arrow in the first picture. I am lucky to have a large backyard where I can do this sort of thing.

Finished First Handkerchief

2008-05-06T05:28:00.000-07:00

I finally finished the my first handkerchief. The insert is a fairly simple reticella pattern, with a bobbin lace border. The lace is plaited from a pattern in "Gekloppelte Reticella" by Brigitte Bellon. I am not totally happy with the tension of the plait, but this was my first time trying it. I am also not completely happy with the pattern of the reticella in the insert. Somehow it looks unsymetrical to me though it isn't. Those are my main issues with this piece. It gives me something to try to fix in the next one. At the moment I do not have another handkerchief in mind, but I have started a lace cap. I do plan on doing some more lace handkerchiefs for the A&S 50 challenge.

In other news, I went to an Athena's Thimble collegium last weekend. I took a class on pulled thread work. It was exactly what I needed to start looking at a project I have had on the back burner for a while. It is a Ottoman scarf with designs on the ends. The designs have elements of pulled thread which I was not sure how to make. Now I have a better idea, and I have started charting the pattern. It really is not too difficult a piece. It has satin stitch, double running stitch, pattern darning, pulled thread, and some fairly simple reticella. While all these are fairly easy by themselves, the tricky part will be getting them all to work together. Anyway I am excited about it.

Here is a sample of the pulled thread that I did in the class.

I think this pattern will be just about right for the scarf.

The only other thing I am working on diligently at the moment are some scrolls for the king and Queen's archery champions event. I decided to do black scrolls this time. It is the first time I have tried then, but I think they are coming out fine. They may not be especially powerful from a distance, but up close they will be nice.

metal lace

2008-04-13T11:45:00.000-07:00

I finished the piece of metal thread bobbin lace to send to Plimoth Plantation. They have a project underway to replicate a 17th C English jacket. The original is at the Victoria and Albert Museum in england.

They have done some wonderful work getting the correct type of thread for the embroidery and lace. Here is link to their blog: http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/

Anyway, I spent a couple weekends helping do embroidery on the jacket, and now I wanted to make a practice lace piece to send to them. I have not really decided if I feel secure enough making lace to try and help on the actual jacket. I am fairly new to the bobbin lace craft.

II also got another Scroll done for my 50 challenge. Unfortunately I did not get a copy or picture of the finished product. That is unusual for me. I am usually really good at documenting my work. I do have some pics of the unfinished piece though. The person who was getting it owns an African Grey Parrot so I was looking for an image of a manuscript page with a parrot in it that I could alter.

Here is a picture of the whole thing, and another close up of the initial with the white work filled in. You can't see the parrot in the picture of the whole thing because he is not in there yet. The 2 parrots were the last thing I did on the scroll. This is the 12th Scroll I have completed towards my goal of 5o by the society's 50th anniversary.

Blackwork Partlet

2008-03-20T03:03:00.000-07:00

One of the earlier projects I did was a blackwork partlet. The Partlet is a small piece of clothing much like a modern dickie made to be worn over the shoulders and chest underneath a low cut gown. I made mine to go under an Elizabethan gown. Here is a picture of me wearing it. It is not a great picture of the partlet, but you can see how it should be worn. The pattern on this piece is from the Italian sampler made in the late 1500s. The pattern was originally posted online, I believe, on Bronwen's blackwork library. This site no longer exists. I have heard she took it down to publish the patterns, but at the time it was a viable source for the pattern. Nowaday I always create my own patterns. It is not difficult to take a piece of graph paper and play around with it until you get a pattern that is similar to the one you are trying to recreate.

Here is a close up of the partlet by itself. I chose to make the blackwork pattern only lining the front opening and collar. When blackwork first started appearing on partlets in the mid 1500s the geometric patterns often outlined only these areas. For an example see:

http://www.elizabethan-portraits.com/UnknownChild7.jpg

Here is a close up of the pattern. It does look a lot like the pattern I used to make the blackwork hood which I wrote about a couple days ago. I like that Italian sampler as a source of patterns. It is currently housed at the Victoria and Albert museum, but unfortunately does not appear to have a picture up at the moment.

I chose to execute the pattern in backstitch because I was not expecially comfortable with double running (Holbein) stitch at that time. Also the back of the pattern was not going to be visible. There is some indication that backstitch was commonly used for blackwork where the back would not be visible. However, at this point I have no proof of this, having never been priviledged to see the back of any pieces. The fabric is an evenweave linen, and the pattern for making the partlet came from one of Margo's patterns.

Quilted wine bag

2008-03-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

Not only do I want this blog to be a journal of my progress in the A&S 50 challenge, but I also want to keep track here of the other projects I am involved in. Recently I was volunteered to be part of a project to give other kingdoms in the SCA gifts from The East Kingdom. We made wine bags with the heraldry of the recipient kingdom on them.
I chose to do my design in padded work, or in this case quilting. I saw a series of pictures on line from the Victoria and Albert museum showing a quilted Sicilian bedspread from around 1400.

The pattern on that was The story of Tristan. The quilting was done on a plain colored background with colored thread outlining the figures. The background is then filled in with plain white thread random stitching. The stitching is not really all that random. It mainly appears to be in lines. http://www.flickr.com/photos/medievalandrenaissance/
This was my first attempt to quilt something like this, and I was fairly happy with the way it came out.
I am also working towards getting a competency ranking in all the categories in the Athena's Thimble, the embroidery guild for the East Kingdom. They have 12 categories for embroidery. At the time I took on the Wine bag project, I was missing a padded work piece. Therefore, I chose this style to both finish the project in an unusual manner and finish a piece for the Thimble. I would eventually like to make period competency in all the categories, but for now I just have to finish one piece in them all. http://www.athenasthimble.com/
At this point I only have to finish a pleated work, and a lacis piece. I have been having so much fun doing all the different kinds of embroidery. I am really excited by finding Athena's Thimble, and getting to participate. The handkerchief I posted a couple days ago qualified for drawn-work, and needle lace. I may post some pictures of some of the earlier projects which qualified for other categories assuming I still have the items.

A couple of Scrolls

2008-03-10T15:46:00.001-07:00

I thought I would put up pictures of a few more of the scrolls I have finished for the A&S 50 challenge, not to mention my Kingdom. As I look over the scrolls, I see that I have been leaning towards making bar and ivy styles. I really do like them. All the little grotesques in the borders can be a lot of fun to make, and they are easy to personalize to the scrolls recipient.

The first one was a grand master bowman. I added a couple of small archers on the bottom border to highlight his accomplishments. The second one was a silver cresent. The East Kingdom's service award. I did not know that much about the recipient of that scroll, but the fire dragon and the ice dragon holding the award on the bottom works for almost any person. I am almost sorry I cannot keep using them. However, I don't like to repeat scrolls. I did it once, and somehow feel I failed the second recipient. It was one of my favorite patterns with little dragons all around the edge.

2008-03-07T04:22:00.000-08:00

My projects for the A&S 50 challenge include: making 50 pieces of lace; making 50 scrolls and making 50 pieces of regalia with the members of my barony. Up to this date I have completed 11 of the scrolls. This includes 5 scrolls for our Baronial Challenge to the other Baronies to support the purchase of coursing equipment for the Kingdom. I usually have a color copy made of the scrolls I make, and don't take pictures of them. I happened to take a picture of this set so I can post it.

I am also doing some bobbin lace for the challenge. Only the second pattern down in the picture on the left is actually for the challenge. The other 3 I finished before the challenge began. The 2 on the bottom are now on the blackwork hood .

The picture on the right shows a short stretch of the baby bonnet edging from the pattern in "Elizabethan Lace" by Gillian Dye. The piece on top of that picture is a very short practice piece of a handkerchief edging from "Gekloppelte Reticella" by Brigitte Bellon. I am making a much bigger piece of the edging to go around a handkerchief I made with a small reticella panel.

The reticella is only partly done in this picture. Since then I have finished it, and the handkerchief is just waiting for me to finish the edging to get done. I am really glad to say I am just about 1/2 done with that edging now. It really takes quite a while to do a long piece. This was also my first try at going around a corner.

At this point I have made 4 pieces of lace for the challenge. I have to say so far the lace is my favorite part. I did not expect to enjoy making lace this much. It is after all a bit fussy. However, being able to turn out something which is this delicate and downright pretty really makes me happy. That after all is the real reason to follow the challenge. To do stuff which makes you happy. Well I guess that is enough for today. After I catch up on what I have finished it will not be quite so bad keeping this updated.

Blackwork Hood

2008-03-05T17:07:00.000-08:00

This is a project I have been working on for quite a while. It has taken my a couple years to finish the blackwork. The pattern around the front edge is my version of one of the patterns from a 16th century Italian sampler. It is done with backstitching. I used a smaller motif to cover the back because I wanted to do it in double running stitch, and I did not trust myself to do too complicated a pattern at first.

A close up of the front edge shows both the more complex pattern and the bobbin lace which I edged it with. Of course the only references I have for the blackwork hood say it was a little used fashion which was mainly worn by little old ladies, and indeed I have never seen a picture with someone wearing one. There are 2 examples of this kind of hood in the Victoria and Albert museum, which is where I got the idea.

So what would I do differently if I were to do this again? I would definately do the blackwork with silk thread, and the bobbin lace with linen. At that time I had only used cheap cotton thread for the bobbin lace because I was just starting, and I didn't want to waste the expensive linen. I have since done some linen bobbinlace, and I am amazed at how much better it handles. The linen has a crisp nature that makes the lace stand out better.

Thus ends the first installment of A&S projects.

First Day of Blog

2008-03-05T12:18:00.000-08:00

So this is it. My first blog entry. I am planning on using this page to keep a record of the Arts and Sciences projects I am doing for the A&S 50 challenge. I decided it was time I keep some sort of record other than on my own computer. The whole idea behind the challenge is to share ideas and kowledge. I can hardly do that if I am sitting on them.

Anyway, as soon as I get home I will post some pictures of some of the projects I have completed so far. I will also post some pictures of projects which are not at all connected with the challenge.