Roz gets armored

I should have known better. I finished the form for the bazubands . I started carving it Wednesday night, after scrounging the 4x4 out in the rain. Like I said, I should have known better, because now I have these horrid little cracks in it. The cracks wont hurt the functionality at all, especially since the thing is going to get wet again, but heck. Now I can't (or rather wont) enter it into A+S as part of a "from the ground up" entry. Oh well. Did I mention I am making felt? Remember way back when (at least a week or so ago, hehe), on the Ironrose list, Master Ekkehardt said to use harness felt to line the different pieces of armor (including the helmet- peeyu). When I asked about harness felt, we got into a bit of a discussion about what it was and where to get it. Then it occurred to me--- BUBBA!! We have the resources sitting right out there in the pasture. So, last night I started cleaning last years shearing. Bubba, if you don't know, is a Karakul sheep. Karakul is the wool that is mainly used to manufacture Persian rugs. It will work wonderfully. But boy, does it stink. Next weekend is Dreamstone, but the weekend after (April 30) is my official sheep and goat shearing day. Weeeee.....