Embroidery Blather and Other Nonsense.
Jul. 12th, 2005 06:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
martelvoncI like to warn folks before I start going on about needlework. That way you can roll your eyes and scroll down to the next person on your friends page! LOL!
I finally sat down and filled out the Pennsic A&S display registration forms. The deadline is Friday! I've also got to get Aelfwynn to register her stuff. It snuck up on me from outta' nowhere I tell you! But it's done and now I just have to pack it all up to take. I'll be taking 6 items this year. 3 will be ones from last year's efforts and 3 will be from this year's work. I've done more but it was for various Kingdom projects that I have given away.
The Pennsic gift basket covers are coming along famously! I will be making one for me when I'm done. I'd also like to make a couple for our Royals to give with Spike worked on them and a couple for our Baroness to give with the Bright Hills PB. These have been fun and look pretty nifty if not entirely medieval. I've enjoyed working on them.
I finally found a drawing that I want to work in Opus Anglicanum. It is a 13th century pen and ink drawing of a lion. He looks very ferocious! Besides one must try a technique with a name as cool sounding as Opus Anglicanum. Don't you agree? My first go will be on linen ground in cotton thread but my second try will be in silks on a linen ground as soon as I find the silks in all the colors I will need. Cotton is much easier to get right now. When purchasing the silks I want to choose them by sight and not out of a catalog, so I'm hoping someone will be selling them at Pennsic. The Eterna Silk floss is actually not very expensive, it's just not readily available so that I can walk in and choose what I want.
I need to sit down and work some more on my Rozashi projects. The problem being they require me to keep my hands very clean as I work and to concentrate on the stitching pattern so taking them to events to work on is difficult. I haven't decided what I will do with them when I'm done but I may just mount them as scroll hangings as was popular in Japan. I wear very little (read here "none") Japanese garb and this is the other place these were used.
Another project I want to make for myself is another linen viking cap. I really like the way my first one has turned out! This cap is very comfortable and even I will keep it on my head! Besides I can do a bit of embroidery on it too! It's a relatively quick project, 1 week, so I get instant gratification.
That's the news from Lake Wobegone,
Where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are above average.
I finally sat down and filled out the Pennsic A&S display registration forms. The deadline is Friday! I've also got to get Aelfwynn to register her stuff. It snuck up on me from outta' nowhere I tell you! But it's done and now I just have to pack it all up to take. I'll be taking 6 items this year. 3 will be ones from last year's efforts and 3 will be from this year's work. I've done more but it was for various Kingdom projects that I have given away.
The Pennsic gift basket covers are coming along famously! I will be making one for me when I'm done. I'd also like to make a couple for our Royals to give with Spike worked on them and a couple for our Baroness to give with the Bright Hills PB. These have been fun and look pretty nifty if not entirely medieval. I've enjoyed working on them.
I finally found a drawing that I want to work in Opus Anglicanum. It is a 13th century pen and ink drawing of a lion. He looks very ferocious! Besides one must try a technique with a name as cool sounding as Opus Anglicanum. Don't you agree? My first go will be on linen ground in cotton thread but my second try will be in silks on a linen ground as soon as I find the silks in all the colors I will need. Cotton is much easier to get right now. When purchasing the silks I want to choose them by sight and not out of a catalog, so I'm hoping someone will be selling them at Pennsic. The Eterna Silk floss is actually not very expensive, it's just not readily available so that I can walk in and choose what I want.
I need to sit down and work some more on my Rozashi projects. The problem being they require me to keep my hands very clean as I work and to concentrate on the stitching pattern so taking them to events to work on is difficult. I haven't decided what I will do with them when I'm done but I may just mount them as scroll hangings as was popular in Japan. I wear very little (read here "none") Japanese garb and this is the other place these were used.
Another project I want to make for myself is another linen viking cap. I really like the way my first one has turned out! This cap is very comfortable and even I will keep it on my head! Besides I can do a bit of embroidery on it too! It's a relatively quick project, 1 week, so I get instant gratification.
That's the news from Lake Wobegone,
Where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are above average.
