Yesterday marked the end of 3 weeks of researching, designing, fabric purchasing, pattern-making and cutting, hand-sewing, machine sewing, riveting, aluminum bending, pleather-work, grommet setting, stud-punching, metal cutting, and hot-glue-gunning. Hugely time consuming and massively fun to be CREATING!HOBB did a lot of work researching their respective costumes and he (largely) made this own cloak. In addition, Hamish worked long and hard figuring out the best design for his quiver. He made a prototype with a PVC pipe that he spray-painted black, but it was too noisy, so he ended up helping Murray make one with pleather complete with aluminium braces on the inside.
In case you cannot tell, Hamish is dressed as Halt, from John Flannagan's excellent Rangers Apprentice Series (historic fantasy set in old-time Europe-like location). When we went out to buy a new bow-string, we were told that his old bow (at least 3 years old), was warped, so we bought a new one (H: "Way better as the old one was orange and I was going to have to spray-paint it black."). The gal at the store gave Hamish an timely impromptu lesson on "intuitive shooting" (H: "Just like Halt and Will do in The Ranger's Apprentice series") in the back store-room. A shout out to Shannon at Island Outfitters for that. Ever since, Hamish has been spending about an hour a day practicing shooting at a target we have out on our driveway.
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