Being the new blog of Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans.
A very good long-time friend of ours was inducted into the order of the Pelican at Pennsic, so I made these two braids for him. The first is a 17-strand Taka-on-Maru braid I made to secure his samurai eboshi (which I also made) to his head. This silk braid is about 80 inches long and [ ]
A friend of ours showed us some swatches of great fabric from a local fabric store, and one of them had this terrific green leaves and blue dragons pattern. Another friend of ours has a green oak leaf in their arms, so I knew they needed something made out of this fabric. It s not nice [ ]
I have done a few custom award scroll illustrations for people in recent years, but I have also kept my hand in the scroll blank game. For those not following along at home, if a scroll is needed quickly and there s no time for a custom illustration, a scribe can just write in the words [ ]
I finally ran out of the mesh material that I have been using for making hikitate eboshi. I had bought maybe 5 yards of it back years ago, and it s no surprise that eventually I d use the last bit for something. Anyway, this happened back in December when I went to make a hikitate eboshi [ ]
A dear friend of mine from way back who is a martial arts enthusiast had bought himself a Japanese sword, and he asked me if I would make a sageo cord for it. It was my pleasure to do this for him. I was able eventually to find some dark blue silk yarn in sufficient [ ]
Suprematism was an early twentieth century art movement that started in post-revolutionary Russia, and embodied the idea that humanity had to free itself from the past and move boldly into the future with new concepts of everything, including art. My personal attachment to Suprematism dates back just a few years to when my Aunt found [ ]
I finished this kosode back in February, but for some reason I never posted about it here. When we were vacationing to visit family at the end of last year, I found a friendly local fabric store that stocked a bunch of cute cotton prints and other attractive fabrics. They had some nice octopus print [ ]
Given all of the rainbow braids I have done in the past year, and how the colors for our local SCA Barony are black and gold (just like Pittsburgh), we were beginning to run low on yellow cotton crochet thread. Normally, I would pop over to one of the local JoAnn Fabrics locations, but RIP [ ]
I still had a lot of burgundy and gray crochet cotton tripled up on my kowaku spools since last year. I was measuring out a lot of material for my class at the Braids 2025 conference in Cleveland, and it s just been occupying the spools since then. I decided to use up as much of [ ]
Just got back home after seeing this new film at Pittsburgh s historic Manor Theatre. I liked it, but then I ve liked every film Soderbergh has ever made, even Schizopolis (1996). The screenplay was written by Ed Solomon, who is probably best known for Bill and Ted s Excellent Adventure (1996). It stars up-and-coming actress Michaela Coel [ ]