This is a veil that I actually started embroidering many months ago, and those of you who follow me or are friends with me on FaceBook may have seen some of the WIP images some time back.  I had put it down for a while in favor of other projects, but I did some more work on it the past few days.  Below you will find all the WIP images up to this point.

This is a large scallop-edge veil that I am embroidering to wear with medieval garb. For the most part it does not use medieval period stitches, but when I started I was much more interested in having something to work on where I could just sit on the couch, and also practice my embroidery stitches since I hadn’t done much embroidery in years outside of corset flossing.

The outer edge is entirely embroidered in three colors of floss, in a tailor’s buttonhole stitch.

The pictoral embroidery motif is being free-hand designed (I’m just sketching out the basic lines in light pencil as I go along), and is using a large assortment of fancy stitches. It also incorporates both silver and gold couched thread.

Scalloped Veil – WIP2

Further progress on the embroidered veil. It’s standard DMC floss and various metallic flosses on some sort of synthetic sheer fabric, a practice piece to keep my hands busy when I’m not feeling well enough to do anything other than sit. The metal snail is couched onto the surface, and covers a repair from a hole I cut in the fabric taking out a blue flower that looked absolutely terrible.

Scalloped Veil – WIP3

More progress on the scalloped veil.
All embroidery is done with regular DMC floss, freehand. The new part is the branch and flowers in the lower right, all in chain stitch.

Scalloped Veil – WIP3 – Detail

Detailed photo of the newly stitched area, and the snail. The new addition is the lower branch and flowers, all created using chain stitch.

Project: Scalloped Veil