Did Santa bring you any sewing/garb goodies?

[gem]

 Just checking in to see what the good St. Nick brought to all the forum members!  We haven't done gifts yet, so I'm not sure what's under our tree, but I have some cash from Milord's parents that's earmarked for some blue velvet....

Everyone else?

[Merlin]

I got a clan Gunn plaid broach

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Santa hasn't come to our house yet.  Our son's wife has 2 sets of parents, so they attend 3 Christmas dinners, 1 on Christmas Eve & 2 on Christmas, and we are the later time on Christmas.   Since our both sons are grown up, there isn't the early hours of the morning wake up to open presents.  So we will be opening presents around 6 p.m. tonight.

Don't know what Santa will bring me, but I bet he is bringing Steve a new sporran, black and brown with a gold celtic cross engraved into the leather.  Also a copy of the 1559 Book of Common Prayer, so when we attend the Sunday morning church service at Bristol, he will have his own copy, and we won't be at the mercy of them running out of the limited number of paper copies they hand out.

Younger son Matthew (Pistol'n M'Crack, for those of you who know him) will have a commission from Lady Kathleen of Olmsted to make some sort of a tabard/jerkin/vest, whatever he wants.  They already discussed what he is looking for, but I'm not sure what they decided upon.

And Santa hasn't brought this, but I received a great present already!  We were at a Christmas party, and I was extoling the virtues of Goodwill for finding stuff to turn into garb, and one of the ladies said she received a table runner that didn't fit with her decor, and she offered it to me.  She brought it to our church's Christmas Eve service last night, and it will make a beautiful forepart some day.

Merry Christmas to all!

[amy]

St Nicholas has not visited me either yet, but my most honorable sister and I each exchanged a box filled with all the extra "stuff" from our sewing closets that might be fun to have for garbing.  I got yards of amazing lace, trim, piping, oils, buttons, pearls, yards of fabrics including gorgeous wools, zippers, fasteners, clasps, snaps, tassels, bracelets and quite honestly the whole shootin' match!  I was thrilled to pieces.   Now a whole new line of ideas can get made this year!   OH and several amazing black feathers!   I was in heaven!!!

[Alisoun]

Santa is a sweet, sweet man, who knows how to listen. He left The King's Servants and The Queen's Servants in my section of the gift pile!

He also left a Sephora make-up kit and a load of items from ThinkGeek, but the books feed my faire habit, so they win.

[Magpie Flynn]

Jewelers tools for me!

[gem]

Santa left The King's Servants and The Queen's Servants in my section of the gift pile!

Here, too! *And* he left a copy of Period Costume for Stage & Screen!

(*So* excited about the kirtles &c in Queen's Servants! Can't wait to see what they say about those really high necklines!)

Not exactly garb, but SIL got me a darling black wool cloche that sort of looks like a British police hat. LOL I'm wearing it right now. Hee!

[Lady Gryphon]

Santa brought me a boarding cutlass, two books about Renaissance times, and my dress makers Mdummy.  I'm set this year.  He also brought me a Kndlefire, but that's not garb.

[Captain Teague]

Plus he brought her a Ladies Flintlock (replica ) to wear with her Pirate garb as well. 

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Nothing Sewing Related.

But Santa brought me a new YAMAHA Home Theater Reciever with all the Bells and Whistles. The SONY died earler this year and there is nothng more boring than sound from the TV, when Surround is so much better.

Now we can play our CDs, watch movies, TV, listen to the AM/FM stations in clear surround sound.

The Buttons arrived from Lord Dragon on Christmas Eve. They will work nicely for the Captain Teague coats.

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas Eve and Day. I have tons of photos to download of the Granddaughters.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Santa in the form of Steve bought me a pearl ring with tiny diamond chips around it (the pearl looks like the middle of the flower, with the chips around forming the petals).  When I opened it, the first words out of his mouth were, "I chose this one because I thought it would look nice with your noble garb."

Santa in the form of our younger son Matthew bought me a cast concrete wall plaque of a knight in full regalia on horseback in front of the arched gate of the castle, with the word "Welcome" across the top.  It can be used outside, because it's made of concrete, so it will be hung to the right of the front door.  I had been looking at it all last summer at Bristol, but I almost never buy anything for myself (except garb!), because most of the time, I'm buying presents for others at faire and holding them until their birthdays or Christmas.

[isabelladangelo]

I guess the replica of Bella's comb from Twilight would be considered garb relatd, right?

I didn't getting anything specific for garb or sewing, really.  What I did get was a new external hard drive (1.5T!) and everything except airfare paid for two week trip to Ireland in September!  So I'm kinda cool with the whole no garb/sewing stuff.  ;-)

[PollyPoPo]

Nothing specific for garb, but I did receive a treasure chest of gold coins and green paper stuff for spending and tipping money at Sherwood in a few weeks.

Wheee!

[Cilean]

I was gifted most lovely this Yuletide!

Bess of Hardwick Embroidery
Moda a Firenze 1540-1580: Cosimo I de Medici's Style
Uniquely You Dress Dummy
Emerald 203 Sewing Machine


People love me!

Cilean

[LadyFae]

Ooh, OOH! I received a garb gift! Or rather, my fairy self- Confetti- did. Confetti is the proud new owner of some fairy-tastic jewelry! A necklace, bracelet and some earrings made by my fairy sister Fauna (aka AuntieGiggles.)

[Kate XXXXXX]

A totally bonkers hair clip/fascinator thing of pheasant feathers and 'jewels'

This...    And this...

For my birthday a couple of weeks earlier I got these two:

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[Tammy]

Santa brought me this: http://www.singerco.com/products/1365/14cg754-profinish

[CenturiesSewing]

I foresee bustles in my future.

[gem]

Hmm... *I* foresee the pink gown from page 42 in your future! 

[Lady Isabella]

Yes!
From the Hubby...of course I picked them....
A Compedndium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603, Elizabethan Commomplaces for Writes, Actors and Re-enactors
By: Maggie Secara
Elizabeth's London, Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
By: Liza Picard
The Elizabethan Renaisance, The Life of the Society
By: A.L. Rowse. (A used book from the NY Public Library)



And from my Grandma Laura....
Embroidery Scissors
Havel's #53025
How cool are these.

[isabelladangelo]

Turns out, Santa might not have brought me anything garb related but my Aunt Marlyn did!   For Christmas, she got me
The Kent state Museum book!  It is fabulous.   I was so completely enthralled with it, everyone chuckled at me...until I showed Mom the 1820s Raspberry silk gown in the book.  Now she wants that one to wear to my next Tea Party!

[amy]

Oh Fabulous.  I graduated from Kent state and modeled for a couple of the fashion students who had their novice work shown there when it opened!   I didn't know there was a book!   I spent hours in those galleries in the first years.  Waaay cool!

[LadyStitch]

Santa in the form of my DH bought me a pair of new pinking shears. They the kind that are for people with arthritus.  No I don't have it, but with all the sewing and cutting I do he was worried about me getting carple tunnel.  Also he fell in love with the regular ones with the springs he got me when I was pregant and I thinkhe wanted the pinking to use himself 

Then my MIL got me an Amazon gift card. I used it to get the 2nd season of Dr Who.  That way I can watch "The Girl in the Fireplace" and drool over the outfits.  Not to mention make the PP a new outfit from them.  Then got David Tennets 'Hammlet'. And I got 'Fast Fit'. It is a book to help you correct fitting issues just by looking at someone's body, and then tell you what to do with the garment or pattern to fix it.
My birthday is coming up and she said she would give me another gift card. I'm trying to decide if I want to use it to get a new sewing machine, or more sewing books.  decisions ...decisions....

[gem]

I have those pinking shears, too! I seldom actually pink anything, but when I did, my previous pair (heavy Ginghers) would actually give me *blisters.*  I had enough last fall making my paned sleeves.

Stitch, you should go for the new machine! With the amount of sewing you do,  you really deserve a great machine that can keep up with you.

[LadyStitch]

Considering she just gets us gift cards to Amazon, and the machine I want I have test drove at Joanns. I'm sorely tempted.  I have Viking950E. Nice embroidry machine, but I can't do any embroiry with it since all I do is sew normal on it, and it is a pain to switch back and forth. I jsut need a happy little work horse.

We will see what birthday brings.