The blue pilgrim bag is entirely hand stitched and hand embroidered, for use at Medieval reenactment events.
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The borders of the embroidered scissor case are all Bayou style couching, bordered with stem stitched. All cotton embroidery on cotton duck canvas. WIP.
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Hand sewn Viking baby booties, with wool felt outer and linen interior. Free pattern is available to download.
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I am making a blue pilgrim bag with scrap fabric and my first card weaving project. I am embroidering it with brick stitch over the satin areas.
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Christine Wickham was one of those amazing people who’s intelligence, compassion, caring, wisdom, creativity, and beauty showed through in everything and everyone who’s lives she touched, a radiance that conveyed what an incredible person she was even through text online. Like most of the people I know who will miss her, I knew her through
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This is an entirely hand stitched 14th or 15th Century Gates of Hell Sideless Surcoat, made out of heavy weight upholstery fabric for reenactment.
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14th Century linen front lacing kirtle. French seams where assembled on a sewing machine; hand-worked seams along neck, front opening, inside sleeve, and hem; hand-worked eyelets; and the dress has deep medieval armholes.
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Today I was both in the mood, and felt mentally coherent enough to write up a tutorial. This particular one is years in the making, as I took all the photos intending to write this tutorial a number of years ago. At long last, here it is. How to Make a Floating Cover A floating
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The drab green silk overbust corset needed a new busk and closure. I entirely used materials I had on hand. It has a new brass “busk” piece. It is secured into a leather strip with rivets and leather pockets on the top and bottom. The leather is secured to the corset with more rivets. It will spiral lace closed, via the D-rings on the other side.
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This past weekend I was able to take some more photos of the Red and Yellow Tunic Dress with Angel Sleeves, which I was particularly happy about since I have added herringbone embroidery along all the edges. Not only does it add a nice decorative element, but it will save me a lot of trouble when laundering by keeping the edges nice and crisp and preventing the two sides from getting out of alignment! The red side is entirely edged with yellow floss, and the yellow side is entirely edged with red floss. I used modern poly DMC embroidery floss for ease, price, and durability in the washing machine.
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