Renaissance pattern

Dear Anita,

If you've been to a Faire before, you'll know that participants go for authenticity. For the very best pattern available for the Elizabethan era, look at Margo Anderson's website and patterns. You can also find some that can be adapted from the three large pattern companies.

But don't make the mistake that many have made about "wench" costumes. Women did not have their bosoms sticking out of the tops of their bodices. They were curved upward to avoid the showing of cleavage. Look at lots of paintings from the era, and adapt the closest patterns.

Teri

I now have visions of a perambulating 5' high monkey wrench... ;)

For wench type patterns, you could try Simplicity or McCalls: both have nice ones. Or you could pop over to my web site (URL below) and look at the Mistress Kate's Folly project. I based my patterns on those Drea Lead has on her site, and Dawn's Costume Pages.

This is the most helpful place to start looking for this stuff:

Dawn is here:

Me too!

--Karen M. black shorts, work gloves, bike tour T-shirt, Lance band

um...a wrench?? would that be a monkey wrench or crescent wrench??

I'm sure you meant "wench", but still.....lol

I've been both wench and lady....last time was merchant class

Larisa

Karen M. wrote:

"CNYstitcher"

Thank Goodness somebody said something finally......I almost couldn't contain myself and was going to suggest ideas for a wrench (tool) costume and comment on how out of place it might look there!

lol

Michelle Giordano

"Wrench" is standard-issue venacular for "mechanic." Usage in a sentence: "May I speak with the wrench who worked on my bike?"

HTH

--Karen M.

And here I was, thinking that I would rather be a vise-grip.

I never knew that!

Ratcheting Socket costume anyone? (is there even such a tool? like I know.....ask my dad lol)

Michelle Giordano

Yes, Michelle, there are various. And they come with a lever for setting the ratchet to tighten or loosen the nut.

Jean M.

I am just going to run away screaming "too much information!!!!!!" LOL

Thanks,

Michelle Giordano (actually own a sander of my very own, impulse buy I guess.......why I don't know......)

Just remember, "righty = tighty, lefty = loosey"

;->

Yeah, but there are (rare) exceptions...

Jean M.

Indeed there are! One of the most frustrating exceptions is camera lenses and lens caps. I have *no* idea why they screw on-off opposite of the "righty = tighty, lefty = loosey" usual way. Anyone know?

????..........made in the orient...........????

The lenses for my Pentax on DH's Canon DSLR) both go on to the right.

What kind of camera do you have that's backwards?

Maybe it's POV. If you hold the camera so that the lens is facing you, it tightens to the right; but if you hold the camera so that the lens is facing away from you it tightens to the left.

-- Jenn Ridley : snipped-for-privacy@chartermi.net

Sheer bloody-mindedness.

Our Cannons have bayonet fit lenses. Makes them stay on better.

Several Nikons, both film and digital.

I line the lenses up with the front of the camera body facing me. When I put the lenses in place, I have to turn them to the left to screw them into place. It just seems weird to me. I suppose one could try lining up the lens with the camera body facing away.

I asked a photographer friend tonight, he said it seems to be random.

I think you've nailed it! :-/