helblonde | Rockin' Weekend (Reply)

moriven and I went down to Tarnmist this weekend so I could teach my delayed hat workshop. We had a fabulous time. Achmere and Kathryn are excellent hosts :)

Saturday saw four folks up from the Isle, and a bunch of Tarnmisties. We started the day with Viking and Mongol hats, moved to Tres Riches Heures hats, hoods, then a flat cap and it's big brother the German pizza hat. We topped of the day with a 16th c. Spanish man's tall hat. I think we had 13 completed hats by the end of the day and another two still to be finished. Everyone who came went home with at least one completed hat. Some people had two!

Sunday I did some patterning for a few folks. I did a houppelande for Kathryn, a cotehardie and burgundian gown (hubba hubba!) for

medeia , and a boy's cotehardie for

razor_dancer . Mini-dancer is very into fashion, so we measured her, too, and suggested a few fancy, yet scalable dresses.

I would definitely do another workshop weekend*. I would recommend it to any artist, in fact. Everyone was very gracious, and grateful that I had come down. The people who used supplies - go faux fur and ostrich feathers! - that I had brought paid me for them without having to be reminded. (I did request this in the pre-class email. I'm all about setting expectations.) I can't think of a better workshop I've had.

* Maybe houppelandes to go with the Tres Riches Heures hats?