The red linen open hood is made from 100% linen fabric, with a linen embroidered scrolling vine pattern, mostly in chain stitch, and it is entirely hand stitched with linen thread. The main seam down the center of the hood is embroidered with fishbone stitch, also using linen thread.
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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
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My linen open hood is nearly finished. It is hand sewn and embroidered with linen thread in an acanthus design.
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This is the finished embroidered scissor case, so I will have something pretty to hold my embroidery snips when I’m at events. It is embroidered with perle cotton and six-strand DMC cotton floss, on a cotton canvas base.  Embroidery stitches used are stem stitch, wrapped stem stitch, chain stitch, Bayous Tapestry style couching, and padded satin
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I have finished the embroidery on my blackwork forehead cloth. In the next week I will be turning it into an actual garment piece. It is flat silk on linen, and the design is my own creation. Elizabethan English style freehand blackwork embroidery. In the photos I have included detail shots of the front and back.
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The end is finally in sight! This is another entry in the continuing saga of my Elizabethan English style blackwork forhead cloth, embroidered in flat silk on linen. Â The design is my own creation. Â I should have the embroidery done any day now, and then I just need to sew the forehead cloth into an
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Embroidered scissor case WIP, fully hand embroidered, leather lining, and lucet braid stitched over the seams.
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This 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.
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Further progress on my late 1500’s English style, freehand embroidered, blackwork forehead cloth. It is flat silk on linen.
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I 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.
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