This is a large scallop-edge veil that I am embroidering for a friend to wear with medieval garb.  For the most part it does not use medieval period styling, 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.

It’s mostly standard cotton DMC floss and various metallic flosses on some sort of synthetic sheer fabric.  The outer edge is entirely embroidered in three colors of floss, in a tailor’s buttonhole stitch.  The fabric outside the scalloping will be cut off when the embroidery is completely finished.  The pictoral embroidery motif is being free-hand designed (I’m just sketching out the basic lines in light pencil as I go along).

The new progress is everything to the left of the Tudor rose, which I have embroidered over the past couple months.  The only detail left on the flowers is the stamen, which I plan to do in metal threads.  After that I plan to add a couple more insects in metal threads before calling it done.

Project: Scalloped Veil