It's been another long time...

 I really am terribly slack with this whole blogging thing...  The group's grown and developed considerably since 2015 (and that one little post in 2017).  Lemme trawl through phot albums and see if I can get up to date...

BEFORE THE PLAGUE:

Ellie brought her magnificent bed to History Alive 2017 (June) and Jan Hollingsworth took a fantastic photo of it -

I carved a little saint statue and made a wayside shrine for the Abbey Festival (July 2017)

The group travelled down to the St Ives Medieval Fair (Sydney) in September 2017

2018 saw me moving house, replacing a couple of leaky tent roofs, and making some textile-related toys...

We 'did' History Alive, the Abbey festival, and the Queensland Living History Federation Conference; a dear friend of mine went overseas and I ended up with her beautiful carved sella curulis (which I then painted ;-) )...

... and made a few pretties to zhuzh up my tent a bit, including a new pole for the lamps to hang off, a hanging based on a piece of Almoravid brocade, and some pearl-shell-spangled red silk curtains with goldwork and gemstone beads (to go behind the triptych).

2019 was a bit of a meh year - we went to the Abbey reenactors' Only Weekend (AROW and History Alive, but then my friend Rob had health issues and we decided to give the Abbey festival a miss.  Even so, there were trunks and tent poles to paint,

pretties to acquire and tweak (the jug was originally white, the condiments dish un-patterned, and the Stinky Kitty a most distressing grey colour thanks to a faux bronze 'patina'...

...and of course more textile stuff - another hanging for the tent, a strip of tablet weaving for my latest gown...

... and then came the Great Plague >.<