Immediately after finishing the open hood, I started work on another small embroidery project.  This one is a needle book, an addition to my sewing kit so I don’t have to lug jarringly modern looking accessories to events with me. The design is my own, modeled after Viking age great wyrm designs.  Each side of the
Read MoreThis is the project I started over the weekend of Pentathlon. I like to always have some sort of portable project going, so I have something to work on when I would otherwise be sitting around, as I like to keep my hands busy. The driving force behind making it is to help avoid sunburn.
Read MoreThis applique embroidery knotwork belt favor was created as part of the Made it at War contest at Talon Crescent War I. Wool on wool with linen thread.
Read MoreFurther progress on my late 1500’s English style, freehand embroidered, blackwork forehead cloth. It is flat silk on linen.
Read MoreI finished the embroidery on the scissor case during the winter holidays. The stitching is entirely done in DMC cotton floss and pearl cotton, on cotton canvas.
Read MoreFlat silk on linen. This is how the blackwork forehead cloth looked on Yule. I think I am about halfway done.
Read MoreThe borders of the embroidered scissor case are all Bayou style couching, bordered with stem stitched. All cotton embroidery on cotton duck canvas. WIP.
Read MoreProgress on the blackwork embroidered forehead cloth. I have now done approximately one-and-one-half repetitions of the pattern, out of roughly eight total.
Read MoreI have made a little progress on the blackwork embroidered forehead cloth. I am working it almost entirely in stem stitch and running stitch.
Read MoreI have started work on a new embroidery project, based on Elizabethan English historic pieces. It’s a forehead cloth which I am blackwork embroidering.
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