Sooo… I have decided to abort the Opus Anglicanum stitch-along.  I’ll start it over again later, probably in the middle of August. I’ve made a lot of mistakes since the start, but I was trying to see it through. However, at this point the mistakes are too glaring and grievous, and I hate how it’s turning
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In part 4 of the Opus Anglicanum stitch along, we will be stitching in the spirals of the right cheek and chin, outline most of the face, and fill in around one eye.
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In part 3 of my Opus Anglicanum Stitch-Along, we will be filling in the forehead and nose, creating the round of the cheek, and filling in the eyes. At this time we are almost exclusively using split stitch, and using flat silk embroidery floss.
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In part two of my opus anglicanum stitch-along, we will embroider the black outlines around the face, and fill in the barbette and neck.
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Part1 of the opus anglicanum stitch along goes over needed materials and preparing your fabric for embroidery.
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I have posted a new tutorial, Basics of Opus Anglicanum Embroidery.  It outlines the stylistic details that make opus anglicanum embroidery unique, and provides instructions in the basics of how to emulate the style in your own embroidery.  It’s an online version of a handout I have created for an opus anglicanum workshop I will be
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The forehead cloth is almost done. Â Using linen thread I hand stitched a narrow whip stitch hem around all the edges of the cloth, and then am sewing the straps using a whip stitch over the folded edge. Â Once they are both done I will sew them to the forehead cloth and it will be
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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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Further progress on my late 1500’s English style, freehand embroidered, blackwork forehead cloth. It is flat silk on linen.
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