Meet the girls!

 

Well, here we are all composited into one picture! It's been impossible to get everyone together for a group photo, so that will wait until the Saturday morning at the festival. Thank goodness for digital technology.

It was a bit of fun making this, but cutting everyone out and pasting us together is time consuming. Still, it's a nice break from sewing! 

I've given the ladies the option to mask up or not, but it's a bit covid-y out and I will be. I usually hope for correct shoes, but quite frankly, I'm feeling that since we are in the Marketplace and not re-enactors (for me this year) that gumboots and dry feet are quite okay also. 

It's looking very wet on the grounds and today I would have been setting up my tent but it's too wet. I've got all my fingers crossed that it's not raining on Thursday for the grand setting up. I've packed extra surcote and hoods for warmth. I thing we will need them.

Hood embroidery!

 I'm filling in time with a little hood decoration. It's a chain stitch, in a pattern we see in medieval art, particularly in the 14th century

The hood needs another good wash and the fuzz trimmed off it, but it's pretty and can be worn this weekend if it's really cold!

Festival ready!

Medieval giveaway!

Love giveaways? So do I!!

You can play my medieval guessing game at the Abbey Medieval Festival this weekend and enter to WIN for FREE! Find Rosalie's Medieval Woman in the Marketplace (near Stag Inn) and say the SECRET word. That's all there is to it!

Winner called on Sunday to collect your prize. I can't post out, sorry.

Prize includes The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women book, bookmark, coffee mug, elderflower cordial, elderflower conserve and notebook.