Turducken

http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/turducken.html

Hmmm, sounds slightly distubing at first, but the concept of Turducken is interesting. I won't be doing it for Thanksgiving, but perhaps Yule or another year.

For those who've never heard of this culinary phenomenon before it's a turkey, duck and chicken all de-boned and stuffed one inside the other. I love to try this sometime.

Further updates on Turkey day will be forthcoming when I have some time. :)

Early Ventian project

Here's an image of the men's outfit I will be trying to re-create. There seems to be a lot of fullness to the skirt, so it's been suggested to me that I treat it like a houpeland. Unfortunately, I've never made a houpeland before, so I'll be doing some contruction research before starting.


I was just thinking yesterday how I went from t-tunics (borrowed) and hello these are my breasts I'll be along shortly bodices (I was 18 when I started so I'm not too hard on myself), and from there I jumped right into late period, Italian and Spanish mostly. I skipped all the bits in the middle. I'm fairly comfortable with rectangular construction, but this full circle stuff? I'm lost.

Here's one site I found to at least get me started:
http://www.virtue.to/articles/circle_houp.html
Any suggestions as to whether this looks like good instructions, or should I keep digging? I don't mind doing research, but I'd honestly like to skip all of trial and error headaches of diving into a completely unfamiliar contruction style with no guidance.

Oh, here's more:
http://www.damehelen.com/houpe/index.html

Happy Natal Day msadie!

You're turning 29, right? :)

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