OMG

Or how I realize I have done a woefully poor job updating this blog.
This past Saturday their Majesties asked if I would join the order of the Laurel.
Yeah it's insane and I'm completely still in shock. It's chaos here but I felt if there is anyone reading this I should at least put something out there
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Finished!

Finished! Original pattern by Federico de Vinciolo (1587) and the finished piece

And now the scary part

Finished the band part of the pattern next I start the punto in aria section

A year of big projects

I've decided this year I'm going to focus on the big projects I haven't dated to take on because so often it feels like you must present something new at every event. At this point is rather do the big stuff thestuff that takes months to do and it will be a year of personal growth.

I'm currently on day 32 of working on the lace towel I have 2 squares left on the band and thenI start the points which I admit scares me but I will learn from it and my art will be better if I push myself

I'm also planning on taking on hand sewing a full outfit by hand naturally I hope to add as much lace as possible- I'm having lots of fun with it!

Lace towel

Started work on a linen towel with reticella lace edge

Inspired by this towel at the MET

Pattern taken from pattern book 1557

Current progress

Lace

I've been continuing my work with reticella lace and my current project is an apron with several 3 inch square motifs
Here are the Finished motifs with the info and photo of the extant lace each one is based on

Learning lace

IRCC

I'm so bad keeping this up its been easier to post on Facebook- so I will catch up here when I can

2.5 months into the IRCC so I've been busy

Photo dump now I'll come back and describe later

Lazy posting

I've been lazy posting but I've been busy so I'll try to play some catch up and hopefully get it all

Thread wrapped buttons

Another set with white accents

For her majesty Mongolian

For his majesty Mongolian

Her collar 

His color

Both finished

Black work partlet

Painted salwar pants- one leg

Part of my heraldic ottoman I'm trying to put together for Crown

Dogessa Gown

Inspiration for the new gown

 
Similar styles all taken from

Mores Italiae,'1575

Unknown Artist, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Partlet

Camicia

Flat front bodice

Lantern sleeve

Wide sleeve coat

Necklaces

Girdle

Earrings

Gloves

Hat. *there are some concerns the hat may be presumptuous of sca rank so jury is out if I'll attempt it

Veil

I'm also thinking of doing a similar gown in a diffrent color scheme with a doublet over dress but we will see how this one goes- maybe I'll save that for the next IRCC

Stonegate

I see I have not been great in keeping my blog updated lately. The main reason for this is since April the area I've been playing with have been working on becoming a shire. It's been a lot of hard work and I admit things have been moving very fast. This split while supported has not been easy. We are basically going from maybe we should do this to official in 6 months (if the heraldry gods are with us and pass our name the first time through). We are also doing this with pretty much no support from the barony besides a go away don't let the door hit you on the way out. With the issues the barony has been dealing with the last two years we couldn't expect anything diffrent. So that's my excuse- I've got some projects in the hopper and will be posting them soon

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