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EDIT: This entry has been updated as of 3/8/08 @ 1:15 pm to add pictures and details.
For a good length of time now, I have been promising Roger a fighting gambeson/jacket/coat. Something he can look all kinds of spiff in while he's teaching and that will hold up to the amount of sparring with swords and grappling unarmed that he does.
And by good length of time, I mean years.
Well the time has come to actually get off my ass and make it. Except I have no idea what I'm doing. But! I have a solution! Roger has a handful of students who just achieved the rank of Scholar within the Chicago Swordplay Guild program. Locally they are the Rocky Mountain Swordplay Guild, but they were born as a study group of the CSG. None of which has anything to do with clothing, outside of the fact that it's because of this I started sewing again. When the boys passed their Scholars tests they took a trip out to Chicago to "play for their prize" - basically they had to do a series of bouts with other Scholars to prove they had earned the rank. I guess? I don't know I wasn't there. But Roger wanted a new cotte to wear to the prize play and thus the Prize Play Cotte was born.
And I discovered I am still able to sew, and in fact seem to have gotten better at it. (Which I attribute to my eleven year old and the infinate amount of patience the littlesnot darling has taught me in the last two and a half years. *G*
( So it's time to conquer the gambeson. (mom, click here) )
For a good length of time now, I have been promising Roger a fighting gambeson/jacket/coat. Something he can look all kinds of spiff in while he's teaching and that will hold up to the amount of sparring with swords and grappling unarmed that he does.
And by good length of time, I mean years.
Well the time has come to actually get off my ass and make it. Except I have no idea what I'm doing. But! I have a solution! Roger has a handful of students who just achieved the rank of Scholar within the Chicago Swordplay Guild program. Locally they are the Rocky Mountain Swordplay Guild, but they were born as a study group of the CSG. None of which has anything to do with clothing, outside of the fact that it's because of this I started sewing again. When the boys passed their Scholars tests they took a trip out to Chicago to "play for their prize" - basically they had to do a series of bouts with other Scholars to prove they had earned the rank. I guess? I don't know I wasn't there. But Roger wanted a new cotte to wear to the prize play and thus the Prize Play Cotte was born.
And I discovered I am still able to sew, and in fact seem to have gotten better at it. (Which I attribute to my eleven year old and the infinate amount of patience the little
( So it's time to conquer the gambeson. (mom, click here) )
