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Embroidery for other Royals

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Ta da! (Click for bigger.) Embroidery for the Trimarian Royals.  Their personal arms, as published here. I did this as a service project for our Majesties to gift to the Trimarian ones at Gulf Wars.  Now that it’s done, I really could have put them a bit farther apart…they’re meant to be cut out and applied as patches to something like a dinner napkin. Technical notes: Cotton embroidery floss, dyed with modern commercial dyes by DMC, on bleached linen.  3" square.  Stitches: Primarily bokkara couching (2 strands), with plenty of satin stitch for the badges (2 strands) and single-stranded backstitch … Continue reading Embroidery for other Royals

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Wanted: Rumpelstiltskin

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Though I’m fresh out of first-born.  S’pose he’d take a cat? Seriously, I’m trying to spin up all my loose fiber, so I have yarn for weaving/knitting/dyeing.  I’ve got 1.5 pounds of linen strick, and you see here about 0.25 pounds spun, which has taken at least five 2-hour sessions.  For comparison, I was filling this bobbin with worsted Alpaca completely in about 2 hours in April.  I’m trying to learn how to spin more finely, and the exchange is you get more time out of your money’s worth of fiber.  Hmm. I’ve also been building up my needle callouses. … Continue reading Wanted: Rumpelstiltskin

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Embroidered Herbal

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(You really must click this one – it’s huge.) This is the result of a kit that my mother started before I was born.  I finished it last month. I want to make it into a gear bag – since I find myself shlepping an awful lot of gear to Fighter Practice, A&S meetings, and so forth.  But in the meantime it’s inspired a new banner here, and an ID card for me to give out to people.  The card image looks nice on the glossy perforated cards I use for Front Step Design. Continue reading Embroidered Herbal