Getting back into the swing of A&S stuff

I have finally gotten enthusiastic about projects again. I researched possible dye stuffs for the trip to l'Anse aux Neadows. I have started cutting pieces of wood, bone and soapstone for various projects to work on while I'm there (I get to do carving as well as textile stuff this time!). I started working on a horse hair fishing line. I still need to research and prepare notes for a lecture on Viking Age foods and food preparation, and think a bit more about preparing a hands-on class to make rope, net and slyng. I need to practice my runes (all styles) as apparently I will be doing a demo of carvving runes. Likely I will end up making luggage tags for all of Ragnar's bags of trade goods. I even spun up about half of one of the wools I dyed last year. I can use it for naalbinding in the textile room, now that it no longer looks like commercial roving. I might even try tablet weaving, as I got 50 wooden tablets last weekend.

I have been blogging a bit about all of this at http://www.siglindesarts.wordpress.com. I wish there was a way to cross-post directly to here. I'm not sure that all of these things fit on my A&S 50 Challenge list, so I may have to revise the list yet again.

It's good to feel productive again.

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