ady Brighid Aileen O'Hagan

ight: Lady Brighid. Left: Sir Gaylen the Smiling.	lazon: Gules, on a pale wavy between a decrescent and an increscent argent, three mullets azure.

urriculum Vitae

Award of Arms, 11/21/92 (A.S. XXVII)

nterests and Skills

Research

1. Member of the SCA Card Weaving egroup
2. Member of the Lucet egroup
3. On-going research on lucets and lucet braiding
4. On-going research on card weaving
5. On-going research on naalbinding
6. On-going research on spinning with a drop spindle
7. On-going research on natural dying
8. Starting research about harvesting and spinning of angora rabbit fur (now that I have new bunnies)

Classes Taken

1. Period Dyeing from Mistress Marthe Elspeth at Gulf Wars
2. Tapestry Weaving - Turkish knot technique from Barbara Enloe (SCA name unknown) at Boar Hunt
3. Bottom Whirl Drop Spinning from Barbara Enloe at Boar Hunt as a one-on-one impromptu class
4. Taught myself the Top Whirl Drop Spinning technique with a few pointers from Lady Seraphina Netka, Barony of the Sacred Stone, Kingdom Atlantia
5. Viking Wire Weaving from Ronan MacMorton as a one-on-one impromptu class at a fighter practice

Classes Taught

1. A one-on-one spinning class with Kim at a fighter practice
2. How to play Mancala at Tourney of the Foxes to Tonya and 3 other kids from another group
3. How to play Backgammon at Tourney of the Foxes to Tonya and 2 other kids from that same group mentioned in #2
4. Lucet Class at mid-week fighter practice (9/26/01): Bjorn, Bastian, Shaltar, Gaston, Clare, Kim, Mekia

A&S Competitions Entered

1. Boar Hunt domestics category with one grey lucetted braid for a bodice and the two 8" side lace lucetted braids for the Italian dress mentioned above

ecent and Current Projects

Completed Projects

1. Lined my cloak with artificial fleece (since I am alergic to wool) and then attached trim to the cloak as well.
2. Made a cloak for my daughter with a wool layer inside for warmth
3. Covered the gromets on my newest Italian Renaissance style dress with a hand done button hole stitch
4. Made a 96" lucetted braid and two 8" braids for the back and side laces of that same Italian Renaissance dress

In Progress Projects

Lucetted braids for all the sleeve laces of the above mentioned Italian dress
1. Spinning wool to eventually be naalbinded into socks for my husband

Ok. I think that is all. I was amazed at all the things I've been working on once I listed them all. I had no idea that I'd been doing all this. LOL

In Service to the Dream,
Lady Brighid Aileen O'Hagan, mka Kirsten Swindall

P.S. Tonya Swindall (she does not yet have an SCA name) is doing the following items:

• Researching a period name
• Participated in the Backgammon class at Tourney of the Foxes from Brighid O'Hagan as an impromptu class

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ales and Recollections

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hought for the Day

magination was given to man for what he is not; a sense of humor for what he his
--Francis Bacon