He’s finally finished! My documentation for this project can be viewed here!
My first foray into weaving was… rough, to say the least. I didn’t have a loom.. so, as you can see, I made one! Chopsticks, a box, and a lot of ingenuity later, and I was off… I’m quite proud of my very first inkle band!
This was my very first attempt at blackwork, and figuring out how the holbein stitch worked. It’s not much to look at, but I’m proud of it anyway. And the back…
This bag was one of my first “big” embroidery projects. I was inspired by a bag that a friend had created, and wanted to create my own, featuring my heraldry. Materials used are cotton thread on muslin, nothing fancy. I would love to re-create this piece using more period-correct materials. At first, I got my…
The extant St. Birgitta’s huva, of which I based my project on. This piece fascinates me, with all of it’s little details intact. The cap itself was fairly simple to make – just a bit of a rounded shape, with the bottom gathered and a wide “brim” part on the front. The complex part came…