Medieval madness

 So it's midsommar. Midsummer. We've had a warm week lately, and now - cold and wet. Yay!

But luckily it was warm and dry last weekend, when we had our Medieval Fair. Of course ys wanted to be a plague doctor- he has this black leather beak mask. Well, he didn't have rest of the outfit.

Mom to the rescue!

Idk if there's enough needles?

It's been a long long time since last time I made any garment of this detail...

So in a few days I made him a tunic, a veil/robe and a hood. Next year he needs new trousers (he has brown medieval trousers but they are not good match to this outfit, they were for the peasant outfit.

Here is ys and my lovely brother. He is ys's godfather, which is a bit strange because both of them are atheists. But it's completely another story... Oh yeah, ys really really really needs proper shoes, too. I can't make leatherwork, so have to find another solution for that. Anyone has elephant skin for the shoe soles? Maybe mammoth skin? Dinosaur skin?

(I know there are a lot of anacrhonisms in those outfits, but you just can't have it all)

We found very nice buckle/clip for ys for his tunic - but of course it's not visible. But it was only 18€, which is a bargain! Th mask was filthy expensive, we bought it last year. Fabrics for the outfit were less than 70€ (they are linen or linen blend). I bought an applewood needle for needlebinding (? oh, its nalbinding?) but I still don't get how you are supposed to proceed after the first loops... Maybe I'll get it by the next summer.

I'm trying to NOT to do any food shopping for the rest of the month. I have my freezers shockingly full, I've been able to get food and bread from the waste food distribution organisation (grand words, the organisation is a woman from my community society, and she's also the distribution system...). Now I'm trying to get us eat to eat through the freezers. Just now there's a whole chicken in the oven, it was already seasoned, so I just dumped it into the cast iron pot (dutch oven) with the lid on. Now I need to wash and boil potatotes (I got maybe 6 kilos of new potatoes), and we will have some freezer veggies steamed/boiled with them. Of course I don't eat poultry, so I'll have some pickled herring (lime and ginger), which was free.

New potatoes, butter and pickled herring with some sourdough rye bread - my summer is here.