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Needle-sharp Skills pt. I. The Melancholy Beauty of the Past →. April 8, 2013. Here in New York City, spring has been slow to appear. Bryant Park finally has pansies and daffodils, but it’s still been cold and blustery most of the month. We thought some embroidered spring flowers would help coax the real ones from their warm ground. Engravings of flowers and bugs were published in pattern books called “Miscellanies”, which included images for lace and embroidery, painting, decorative plaster,...Here is a...
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Shuttle and Needle: Blocking done
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014. I finally blocked the baby blanket that I recently finished. I lay something over the assembled mats to guard against any color bleed (a practice I started when I only had the brightly colored mats). I use either a clean towel or, as I did here, some white fleece I had left from an old project. It doesn't cover the mats, but it is big enough for the piece being blocked. One of the corners, showing how the blocking wires make it easy to square them up. Released from the wires.
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Vika's Vexatious Vestments: August 2015
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A fractal journey through the textile arts. Wednesday, August 26, 2015. Banner Project I And Also Some Embroidery: Everything's Coming Up Daisies. You can't put it together again unless you've torn it apart first." - Vallista proverb. Marguerite" page from the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany, c. 1505. The reference image given for this project is from. Needle-Painting loves me, it loves me not. The usual stitch for needle-painting is long-and-short stitch. The other task available right now is doing t...
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Shuttle and Needle: Fingerless Mitts
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014. I've come to really enjoy fingerless mitts. I've made several pairs. They're quick to knit and small enough to carry in my purse. The rounds are short also so they're perfect for picking up while waiting in line or in a doctor's office. Here's a picture of the shawl while it was still on the blocking wires. The pictures don't make it clear, they really do work well together. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). It's not all about history. Home page of my husband and Me.
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Vika's Vexatious Vestments: Banner Project I: The Devil In The Details
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A fractal journey through the textile arts. Sunday, August 16, 2015. Banner Project I: The Devil In The Details. Perhaps you'd consider changing your arms slightly? Here are the topics I'm currently chewing on:. Gold would sure be shiny, though I'm not sure I have enough for all. Those gorram daisy petals. The threaded needle looks awfully lonely on the central bend. A charge, if not blazoned otherwise, is depicted "proper", which in the case of a needle is "straight up and down". I can increase ...I won...
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Shuttle and Needle: July 2015
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015. This blog has been merged with my other textile blog: A Study in Textiles. Most of the posts from this blog have been copied to that one. I won't delete this one, but there won't be more posts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). It's not all about history. Most of my textile work is historically based (see my other blog about that journey), but I enjoy working with most string based arts, and here I will discuss those other arts - modern knitting, crochet, making clothing for work .
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Vika's Vexatious Vestments: Steps 1-360; or, How I Spent The Last Five Years
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A fractal journey through the textile arts. Thursday, August 13, 2015. Steps 1-360; or, How I Spent The Last Five Years. You bitches been sewin' or what? In spite of the witticisms in my previous post, I actually have some. Five 14th-century fitted gowns (the kind of dresses in the photo above), one of which was entirely sewn by hand. One pair of sleeves for a 1450s Italian gown ("gamurra") I'd made years ago. One 1540s Florentine silk gown. One pair of hand-sewn woolen hose. A linen "St Birgitta" cap.
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Vika's Vexatious Vestments: Banner Project I: A Field of Daisies
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A fractal journey through the textile arts. Friday, August 14, 2015. Banner Project I: A Field of Daisies. I could say that I swear all heraldic art I do will be done cheerfully, but I would be a horrible liar. As usually happens, we come back from Pennsic. And are immediately plunged head-over-heels into another project. This year, it is one of our nearest and dearest being inducted into the Order of the Laurel. And I have committed to make a banner of her coat-of-arms for this grand occasion. I'll do a...
