The Champion's Cloak was Delivered

Here is a picture of the man that the champion's cloak was intended for. He wore it for the first time at Coronation this weekend. Doesnt he look spiffy?

Ooops...I did it again...;)

ok..so..still working on the tissue cover but a side project came up that needed to be done quite quickly. Its a long story but I ended up making a new Queen's Fencing Champions Cloak for our Royalty. Duchess Roxanne and her crew made the King's Champ cloak. She sent me the directions and materials and I made this over the last two weeks. It is purple wool, lined with golden silk and embroidered with silk thread. Trimmed in gold "fringe" is the only way i can describe it.
Its modeled on my husband Doug.

This Months Project: Tissue Covers

Well, the projects request for Pennsic gifts are embroidered covers for the small packs of tissues that people carry in their bag. I had originally though of doing a blackwork pattern in red thread but the linen i have is quite fine and I dont think id be able to finish one before the deadline if I went with the pattern. So...ive chosen a different allover pattern that is counted and take about half the time, but still be just as pretty. The pattern im looking at is a large flower in diamond repeat dated back to 1601, Germany. :) (pictured left)

Ive got the linen stretched onto a mini scroll frame and plan to plug in various movies on this rainy weekend and get truckin on it. :) More photos to come as the progress advances.

Though my posts have been sparse, my hands have not been idle. I am still researching embroidered book chemises and covers..but as a small project, I embroidered this towel for my son's newly married teacher. She has a country kitchen motif so I think this will fit in nicely. Mundane in fashion..but still..embroidery. :)

oops..forgot...

I forgot to mention I am currently researching intarsia embroidery as well as book chemises and covers. Intarsia is harder to find info on than i thought. So the quest for knowledge and understanding goes on!!!

Birka

So for Birka, I made two new tunics for the boys. And a spur of the moment idea came to mind. I had this great black fabric that had gold icanthus leaves on it so i made a fake sleeve and added it to the boys tunics so it looked like two! Here are the images:


Kind of hard to see Kyle's but its exactly like Leo's only in blue linen. They loved these new tunics (greenland style) and Leo insisted on sleeping in his that night. :)

Lax in posting i know

Well, just cause i havent posted doesnt mean im not busy! :) I am working on favors for the Princess (which ill post an image of later when im back from taking the boys to school) and im making a viking tunic for my husband for his birthday and two for the boys so we all have viking to wear for Birka in two weeks. Eventually Ill make pants too but..well I am not the most proficient with pants for some reason. My husband says they are either so big he has to pull them up to his chest or they are as low as Brittany Spears pants...or worse...they fit like MC Hammers. LOL! Yea..so i need work there.
Ok time to get the kids to school!