Castlefest costuming, Nurk, Horribleness.

NoKey's made a pattern, so I can start on my leather armour for Castlefest. We picked up leather at Strieder last Tuesday. It wasn't a long ride, but it was nice to get out on the bicycles. I guess I can even find it back, that's how simple it was.
Ahem. Anyway.
I've got striped cotton for pants, I've got two colours of regular linen for the coat, and I've got a very thin textured woven linen for hijab. Inan is coming up!

I worked on my scalemail while playing Settlers 2 (huzzah for doing something useful while procrastinating!) and I've adapted the shape of the scalemail bits to something resembling a sleeve. The blocks were 17 x 17 scales, now they're bigger. The top is seven rows wide. It's still anodised aluminium with RVS rings.


The black line is the edge of my regular sleeve pattern (simple tunic). Not quite completely there yet, but I want to see how it hangs from the leather before I continue. I've still got quite a few scales left, as well as well over 500 rings, so I can lengthen the sleeves, or -- and I really like this option -- add a piece of scale mail to the left hip. It's going to be a spearfighter costume and I love asymmetry in costumes.

In other news, our order from Amazon came in, and I'm reading Ursula Vernon's Nurk, which is hilarious. We've also got the soundtrack and the DVD from Dr.Horrible's Sing-a-long blog. Go us!