This is my apartment this morning All that white stuff on the far right? More white linen. As usual, too much fabric, NOT enough space. I finally drew up an actual plan for William's shirt: I based on the Nils Sture shirt and the 1535 boy's shirt in the V&A (the first one in PoF [...]
Project Updates and Musings on Taking a Different Path
Sorry for the short break in posts-- I've just been chugging along on a few different things. Last Sunday I downloaded an app to keep track of the time I've put into different embroidery projects. If you needed proof that I'm Bad at moderation, here's what I've done over the last week and a half [...]
I tried to do math, but it was scary
I was going to start this post with a cute "One year, $XXXX in fabric, and uncountable stitches later" but actually calculating how much I've spent on fabric in the past year was seriously anxiety provoking so I gave up. Twelfth Night 2019 has come and gone! Thanks to Heather for the great photo of [...]
T-minus 5 days
Yeah I signed up for too much stuff. That's ok! I think I'll get it done! My Spanish Burgundian dress is DONE, pictures to follow. I did kind of um...fuck up... Because I had one of my old tranzado scarves that I was going to dye to make the sash.....and I left it in Berkeley. [...]
Greetings from Ojai!
Happy Christmas all, I am at a rich person resort in SoCal with my relations. It's beautiful but a very odd experience, given that I identify much more with the people working the front desk than I do the other guests. Ah, well, won't hurt to get out of my comfort zone. I'm also confusing [...]
Stir crazy
Officially diagnosed with tendonitis in both forearms! Fun! Cool! Great! Yeah no, I'm about half an inch away from losing my mind especially now that my wrists mostly aren't hurting. It makes it much harder to not use them, but I know I shouldn't. (Weird aside-- turns out taking 4 Advil liquigels a day makes [...]
Rooster Dudes
Ok, firstly, the Lipperheide Punto de Milano project has been banished. This thing. Gone. Adios. No more. ....ok, I didn't throw it away or anything, it's hidden in a corner of my sewing basket, but mentally it is dead to me. Why? Well, it was too sloppy, the thread/fabric combo really didn't work, and it's [...]
When inspiration becomes an overload
I'm on the longest vacation I've had since I started working at Lacis a year and a half ago-- not counting when I got meningitis, because... no-- and as a result I've been at my parent's house since Sunday. I brought a couple projects with me. I dyed an ostrich feather for my bonnet that [...]
The floof has grown
A couple weeks ago, encouraged by my boss and an acquaintance who works Dickens, I decided that: a) I could in fact wear a black bonnet with an ecru printed dress and b) I should make a day cap to go under it. I pretty much ad-libed the whole thing based on diagrams of 1856 [...]
Two over, two diagonal, two up
I haven't shared any embroidery here for a while, but things are ticking along! Firstly we have the big boy: 16th C Italian Sampler at the V&A I'm doing the motif on the left-hand edge, it's about halfway done. Piper's Silk floss on Ferragamo linen from Britex. I've found beeswaxing the floss silk makes it [...]
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