I went to my first Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) event, with @Opus Elenae and @Faye Sterling! Thank you Birch Living for sponsoring! Click here https://birchliving.com/SnappyDragon to get 25% off your Birch mattress (plus two free Eco-Rest pillows!) during their Cyber Monday Sale. For your little ones, check out the Birch Kids Natural Mattress which is a 2023 Good Housekeeping Parenting Awards winner! Offers subject to change. #birchliving
I've wanted to try historical reenactment events, so I was overjoyed to visit my friends Courtney and Faye for my first ever SCA event and spend a weekend in historical costume! But I had SO MUCH sewing to do before I could spend a weekend in medieval dress, so I've put together a sewing vlog of preparing for and going to my first medieval reenactment LARP. The Society for Creative Anachronism has run events like this for a long time, with reenactors combining historical recreation and medieval fantasy. For my event wardrobe, I made two new medieval dresses. First, a high medieval bliaut made with historically accurate sewing techniques and tablet-woven wool trim, and secondly a basic early medieval kirtle or under dress in light blue wool. Added to the linen medieval kirtle and pink wool bliaut I already had, this gave me a great medieval wardrobe with all of the fantasy appeal of the classic middle ages princess dress!
I wasn't sure what to expect from an SCA event, but I had a great time! There was sword fighting, classes, amazing shops and vendors, and people who reenact in everything from Viking Age to Renaissance dress. I got to see Faye fight in a medieval tournament LARP, explore a castle before watching reenactor knights storm it, and listen to Courtney explain SCA history and politics. While the Society for Creative Anachronism definitely has its problems, and I'm not sure I'll participate often because of them, I had wonderful first historical recreation event thanks to the people I met there.
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