This part is done, and I’m almost done with the veil entirely. All that’s left to embroider is a dragonfly, and then trim up the edges outside the scalloping.

The embroidered bee is made with a combination of running stitch, double running stitch, chain stitch, and rope stitch, all in black cotton embroidery floss. The metal thread is worked with klosterstitch (the abdomen) and short stab stitches (the hairs).

This is a detail photo of the bee area on 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.

Visible in the image other than the bee are the two columbines and most of the tulip flower. The columbines are entire chain stitch for the cotton parts, with the stamen created by stab stitched golden thread and small gold fill beads. The tulip is chain stitched outline, and filled in with a trellis stitch.

Project: Scalloped Veil