First of all thank you to Mel at Wandering Soul for naming me! I would have named you if I got it first.

The Domestic Witch Blog Award!
For Achievement in Magical Housecrafting

If you’ve been bestowed The Domestic Witch Blog Award:
~ Pass the award on to 3 blogs about Domestic Witchery that you really enjoy.
~ Include the award in your blog post.
~ Link the nominees within your post.
~ Don’t forget to mention the person who gave you the award.
~ Let your chosen winners know that they received The Domestic Witch Blog Award by commenting on their blog.

My three nominations are:

Forest Grove Botanicals well darn it, she got one already…

Into the Dawn

Oh dear.  I don’t appear to know any other crafty witches who aren’t already nominated!  I need to widen my circle of crafty witch blogs.  As soon as I find more I’ll revise.

I don’t find that I told you all about this new forum.  Generally I avoid online pagan forums. Sorry but there it is.  Just too many wing nuts and wack jobs out there.  It’s too much to wade through.  But this forum has a very specific focus.  Yes, one can showcase their work there but writing tutorials is the hope for new members.  A chance to spread the skills.  The Stitch Witch Cottage tutorials are also found at The Witch’s Craft. This site gave me the juice to begin Stitch Witch Cottage.

I’m going to do it.  I had so much fun creating The Medieval Tailor. When I left the SCA for good I didn’t turn back but there were some things I truly missed.  Especially teaching.  And the TMT website was all about teaching.  I was busy in general and all was good. But I’ve had no purpose this last year.  It was supposed to be freelancing but even when I did/do have work it doesn’t come close to the high I get when I’m teaching.

That one little nudge from the universe yesterday has changed so many things.  I suddenly have a project, a big project, one that will hopefully bring some joy to others.  That will be service work.  That will give me smaller projects to do within the larger project framework.  That will use my creative talents.  Oh GIRL!

So.  While I don’t have a lot of money I do have mad skillz.  And I did have $10.  You are reading the blog of the proud owner of:

stitchwitchcottage.com

Woot!   It will take some time to get this rolling.  I will have to design the site and I plan on making it database driven to manage the photos. And I will need content.  So I probably won’t launch for a year.  But you will be my guinea pigs.  Since this isn’t intended to be a money making venture but a gift of love I can unveil all demos here and eventually put them into a website.

As soon as the pouch demo is done I will hope that one or two of you will be my beta testers to make sure that the instructions are concise, that there are helpful tips, and to let me know if I’ve missed anything.

The beta testers will be rewarded.  I’ll let you know when I’m ready.

Don’t you just want to live here?

Thanks to Wandering Soul, I found this cool online forum/group called Witch Crafts.  Now mind you, I tend to avoid forums like the plague.  But this one caught me at least at the right time.  And it’s as much about teaching as it is about show and tell.  And I’m all over that.  Into the Dawn, who is also there, asked me to do a couple demos.  So the first one is a pouch.

(I’m actually thinking that I might make a new website similar to The Medieval Tailor that is all about demos for the creative work I do with good photos and decent instructions, anyone want to vote on that?)

I got the materials all together yesterday and everything is ready for me to start sewing.  Of course I have to embroider it, which is not part of the pouch construction demo, but what’s the use of a plain pouch for someone like me?  The demo might take a couple weeks to complete but it should be fun.

So as a teaser to the sisters who lead me there and for you I’ll post a couple photos.  Today, I’m getting ready for Fires of Lughnasadh (a skyclad ritual after a day of workshops out at the standing stone circle in Redmond) tomorrow and this.  My camera has a terrible time getting this green right.  So note that the green is mossier and the purple is purple-er.   The cord is very silvery gray, and the threads are more saturated too.  Hopefully, when it is done, I will be able to nail the photo…

This is closer but the colors are brighter, happier than this.  Totally yummy…

There will be more margin art like this to come.

Spirals – just goofing around filling space…

The Faery Tree

This image is copied from a decal that I have from Krista Lynn Brown of  Deva Luna.  I love her work and have several of her decals.  For some reason I can’t seem to bring myself to actually use one yet, so I did my own version.  The center image is hers mostly with specific elements changed, the plants at the four corners are mine.  Holly, Rowan, Oak, and Blackthorn.

It isn’t your eyes, this is a very pale moon…