Autumn Zebra

I did cooking in the weekend, cooking new things. I am obviously very clever. Both recipes are very simple, so you should make them. First I made leek and pototo soup. I can give you the recipe because I modified it from what was in the book, reducing the amount of butter, cream and stock, thus making it healthier, and also enabling me to actually eat it without feeling ill from too much fat and salt. Leek and Potato Soup olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 2 leeks*, stem only, sliced 1 celery stalk, finely chopped 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 200g (7 oz) potatoes, chopped 1 cup chicken stock, 2 cups water ~160ml (2/3 cup) cream some chopped chives black pepper Heat the oil in a saucepan, add the onion, leek, celery and garlic and cook, covered, for 15 minutes. Stir occasionally, and cook till softened, not browned. Add the potato, stock and water and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and cook covered for 20 minutes. Allow the soup to cool a little (this is where I tried to find the

Same story - copied from my LiveJournal post I don't think I actually said in the previous post (although at least a couple of people realised without my making it explicit) that I am making something for everyday wear, not SCA, etc. The reasons for this are that although there is an SCA here, I am not part of it, and I'm not really into group kind of activities of any kind (although I am considering it) and I'd like to be able to wear regularly what I put all this effort into, and I just want to make these historical clothes, to see what they are like, and how they are made, and then to wear them because I am bored of modern clothes. Plus, I find it amusing to have strangers compliment me on clothes based on those worn 500 years ago. There are fitting issues, as we have observed, although I do intend to wear this sometimes over my kirtle (although it also fits poorly, being a first try) and sometimes over modern clothing, so there is a bit of a problem there, regarding sty

This is the first of three entries about my making a fitted english gown from the book the tudor tailor (3 entries because I don't want to type it all out all at once). I've already made it but have not typed much this month due to RSI so I have lots of stuff back logged! (Did you know everything I want to do aggravates the RSI? That in itself is aggravating.) Hopefully this makes enough sense, I posted it already to a sewing community, who will mostly know what I am talking about. So anyway, the "fitted English gown" is kind of like a cross between a coat and a dress, with a fitted bodice with a kind of built-up neckline, a flared skirt and either puffy sleeves or those with an extended cap. I am doing long sleeves. It's a mixture of hand and machine sewing, a mixture of 16th century techniques and modern/those I made up. It is non-authentic materials - ?olive? cotton drill lining because I had 10m just lying around, as you do, and it was a good colour I thought.