Pennsic State Dinner Gift Contribution

I got tagged a couple months ago as an artisan to make things for our EK royalty to gift to Midrealm royalty at Pennsic. I was deep in cranking out Pride favors and knew I had the Laurel regalia projects on deck so I didn't volunteer right away. 

I put those projects to bed before GNEW, and happened to have more of the herringbone/broken diamond twill warp still on the loom. With 2 weeks before Pennsic, and my husband going away on travel (thus not needing to make him any new garb), my to-do list wasn't nearly as full as I thought. The personas for the gift recipients was Viking and their household colors and heraldry were black and white. Seemed like an easy thing to tackle. So I sampled up some patterns and came up with this. 

It's the same broken diamond twill pattern that I used for my Lichen Brat. An absolutely documentable pattern that suits both the time frame and region of the giftees. I wove through what was left on the loom and had enough to finish 4 favors. Since the purpose of these is for their majesties to be able to gift them again, 4 hardly seemed adequate. So mathed and measured out what should be enough for 6 more, plus some wiggle room. I managed to weave 7 more, but when I washed them and hung them to dry, a bird managed to stain one. I refuse to pass along something that is already stained, thus I only sent 10 favors to Pennsic. No word on how they were received or will be used. But most folks are still at Pennsic, so this isn't shocking. 

I have been updated that people are connecting over the Pride favors. I had taken a handful down to PennLite and my campmates snagged them. So it was a great way to connect my long time family with my new community!