A. L(ibrary) Smith

omg I just watched chessboy's video and it's so sad. Fuck that guy, revoke his titles and fuck the FIDE guy that said all that stuff too

hot damn that's some spicy chess drama

I can't wait for you to tell me what the Kramnik situation is. Right after you explain who Kramnik is.

I won a copy of Seveneves from them like 10 years ago

Okay so it turns out the constant heat is actually quite important to get the dye to set. I'm not surprised but I guess I will have to get a fire pit after all. Most of the color rinsed out and the fabric is slightly tanner than an unbleached linen. I'll post pics when it dries.

imagine spending money on a new hobby when you could just use trash from your yard instead

A light brown scrap of linen fabric held up by a paint stir stick. The pot of liquid below looks nearly black.

Then we heat the dye bath and add the fabric. I don’t have a fire pit so I’m using a propane wok grill. this is after just 60 seconds. you should boil it for 30-90 minutes but I don’t want to use up all that propane so I boiled it for about 5 minutes and I’m going to let it soak overnight.

A white cooking pot full of a very dark liquid, the color of used motor oil. The stir stick has developed a much darker brown line as the dye soaks in more.

Next, you have to strain the liquid from the black walnut fragments. Even little pieces can cause darker brown spots on your fabric. I didn’t have a strainer so I just strained it through the crack in the bottom of my bucket. We’re gonna have some spots.

A red bucket lined with a white plastic grocery bag. It is full of water and the black walnuts. After soaking, the water and the green nuts have both turned mostly black. The dye has already begun to dye my stirring stick brown.

You’re supposed to soak them overnight in a bucket but my bucket had a crack in the bottom so I left them in the bag but that had a hole too so I put the whole thing in the dye pot.

A black walnut tree, full of round green nuts

Trying some natural dye with black walnuts today. My father in law brought me a bag of them from his yard.

This is tonight, folks! Mary Roach on the @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social! 7pm ET, here's the livestream link:
💙📚 🧪 #histsci
www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLh...

Looks like a great place to start a cult!

A person in green rain boots standing in a muddy puddle in the grass

Feels good to be back at Pennsic again!

Making a sleeveless dress in easy steps I decided to make another sleeveless middle dress to wear under my velvet houppelande. The other one (similar to this one, also in black silk taffeta) I made before apparently shrank on its own in …

Eyeing this tutorial for a sleeveless medieval side-laced dress and wondering if I have time to make one out of my curtains before I leave today (I don't, and I won't, but it is tempting) handcraftedhistory.blog/2020/12/14/m... #mysca

5 strands of assorted beads. The strands have metal circles on both ends so they can attach to turtle brooches. The first is nonbinary pride colors, the next two are black and white beads for my clan, the fourth is miscellaneous beads and a roman coin, and the last strand is blue and white for the SCA Kingdom of Atlantia.

I made a bunch of Viking beads to wear with my new garb. Quite a fun stash-buster project and I will definitely be making more when I get back from Pennsic. #mysca

check the model number on the recall website: www.recallrtr.com/minifridge

They did not even stop mocking marginalized people in their attack on fascists. "haha trump is GAY for Satan! also satan is GAY haha! we are very progressive"

Damn I got one of those. Good thing it wasn’t plugged in!

Skjoldehamn hood Tutorial This tutorial is made with the support of my Patreons. Support me to help me make more free tutorials! The Skjoldehamn hood is a find from the 11th century, and because it is the only find of this …

This is the tutorial I used. This site seems like it will be very helpful for anyone new to sewing historical garb handcraftedhistory.blog/2024/01/30/s...

A forest green linen hood with hand-felled seams. The hood is constructed of two rectangles and two squares, based on a 11th century Scandinavian artifact. The stitches are visibly done in black thread.

Made a skjoldehamn hood with a scrap of fabric from @patches023.bsky.social #mysca

Yes! If you can't see it it doesn't exist. Don't put anything in boxes unless the boxes are clear, and even then think real hard about whether that is actually a good idea.

A purple painted wooden staircase, viewed from the bottom

A purple painted wooden staircase, viewed from the top. At the bottom, a colorful crazy quilt hangs from the wall, behind a robins egg blue cabinet with many little drawers in it.

People will tell you to stick to neutral colors in your home decor but those people are wrong. Painted my stairs purple and I wouldn’t have it any other way

Dropped my sewing project mid-stitch as I was suddenly overcome by the urge to make some biblically accurate brooches

A purple coif (a fitted linen cap) with visible black stitching and decorative black and white ribbon for the ties

Actually starting to enjoy hand sewing! I made this medieval coif at an SCA event yesterday #mysca

Put on water for tea but accidentally made a Viking undertunic instead #mysca #ADHD

a man wearing a top hat and a white shirt is saying `` no , stop , dont '' . Alt: Willy Wonka in the tv shrinkray room, emotionlessly saying "No. Stop. Don't"

good luck

this phrase can be read to the tune of the teenage mutant ninja turtles theme song fyi

Me wearing a plain blue linen Viking apron with a yellow underdress

Finally finished hemming my first tunic and Viking apron! I’d like to add trim and put proper loops on the apron straps but it’s fully wearable now. #mysca

Ooh I’ve never seen those before! Thimbles don’t help me much because I always stab myself somewhere unexpected 😂

The hem of a linen tunic collar, sewn up to a corner

Made it 6 inches before stabbing myself today! How do you get better at hand sewing? It’s easy, just stop being bad at it.