I picked up the project list idea from [info]eowynsartifacts. She is far more industrious than I am but was kind enough to point out some of my projects that I had forgotten about. Also Pentathlon was this year and that always ups my completes. So here we go:

2009 Projects Summation

Projects completed this year

* Story: “The Wolf’s Story.” A Pentathlon entry. This story took its construction from Snorri Sturlurson’s Heimskringla (“The Chronicles of the Kings of Norway”), specifically from his biographical sketch section The Ynglinga Saga. I had a blast weaving in Icelandic folklore and telling the story of 3 generations of Norse farmers and raiders.

* Performance: “The Wolf’s Story.” I performed my story at Queen Moira’s Festival of the Rose. I’m a dramatic storyteller (read: actress tells stories) so went to town with werewolves, riddling games, and evil sorceresses.

* Poem: “The Lonely Traveler.” I wrote this for my team Pentathlon entry. It tells the story of an encounter with a black dwarf in the Cheviot Hills.

* Garb: Green-striped Norman gown. This was my Vigil undergown. I had already made the blue Norman that went over it.

* Garb: Red and gold gown. This was my elevation undergown. Like the green stripe, it can be worn as an outer gown as well.

* Garb: Gold overgown. This was my elevation overgown. The embroidered fabric was an amazing (free) find.

* Garb: Gold ermine-lined mantle. This mantle goes with the gold gown but was made for Pentathlon. I was lucky enough to find faux ermine that actually has little “ermine tails” tied on to it.

* Performance: “The Trial of the Dead.” A Pentathlon performance of a Norse ghost story. I adapted this one from The Eyrbyggja Saga.

* Performance: Persona presentation. Yet another Pentathlon performance, this time of my persona. In persona presentations, you sit or stand and answer questions from your 3 judges. It’s 10 minutes of thinking so fast that steam was coming out of my ears.

* Performance: “The Wife’s Lament.” I read this Anglo-Saxon poem largely because I really, really wanted to begin and end it with the original Old English. I learned it phonetically but didn’t trust my memory. I’m dying to learn OE though.

* Gonfalon banner. A very straightforward linen banner patterned after a 15th century example. Also for Pentathlon.

* Poem: “Sir Ragnar of Sandcastle.” An Irish conachlonn for Sir Ragnar’s fighter poem. I love this form.

* Poem: “The Homecoming.” I wrote this in honor of my household Cliar cu Buidhe at Potrero War.

* Poem: “Crown Morning.” A fighter poem for THL Simon Montgumery. It’s a treochair, which plays with word repeats from line to line. You may gather from this and my other poems that I dislike writing rhyming styles. I don’t know why. I much prefer writing alliterative, repeated and chain styles.

* Performance: “We Are the Shire of al-Sahid.” I wrote this poem for Yule 2008 and performed it this year at al-Sahid’s Anniversary.
Projects started but not complete

* Research paper on Christian Anglo-Saxon burial practices. I was almost done with this and then the document disappeared. Seriously. I still don’t know what happened to it!

* Garb: Venetian gown. The bodice came out great last year but I haven’t made the skirt yet. I don’t like going out of my persona period but I hate to have a perfectly good (and hard!) bodice done and nowhere to wear it. I may finish it for the Black Rose Ball in the fall. It’s not exactly the right look but it’s close enough to the period to not be so out of place as a much earlier period. We’ll see.

* Garb: Hood. I finished this gold and red hood but realized I’d left out a gore! Oops. It’s torn apart and waiting for me to sew in the forgotten gore and then it’s ready to go. I absolutely love hoods but don’t own any completed ones! Estrella War, here I come.

* Persona 50 project. This is actually a series of 50 persona-related projects from the A&S 50 movement. The deadline is SCA’s 50th anniversary. Some are completed and others are not, but it’s all fun.

Projects I want to start soon

* Garb: Norse coat. Speaking of Estrella, I’m sewing a houndstooth wool Norse coat. I’m lining it with faux fur; either a nice white I already have, or a curly brown that I just got. I’m leaning towards the brown because it looks like it could have come off of my persona’s sheep.

* Garb: Wool gowns. Most of my Anglo-Saxon gowns (tunics) are either silk or linen, and just a couple of them are wool. Therefore I freeze at Estrella. I’m going to try to make at least 2 before the War and to remake 1 existing that’s too big.