more embroidery

10 hours into the second embroidery element



The stitching together of the camicia is slow going and I keep arguing about adding embroidery.

Piles of silk

the pieces for the camica have been all cut and hemmed! Started to piece them together with a fagoting stitch, not sure if I am 100% in love with it but who knows it might grow on me.

2nd embroidery motif

5 hours of the second embroidery element

Bracelets done!

They ended up being much more delicate then I intended but I love them!!!

bracelets

I had not noticed them before, but after reading an entry on a fellow entrants page mentioning them I discovered that my portrait also had the woman wearing two gold bracelets. 



Thanks Hastings for pointing this out! http://daughterofthebull.blogspot.com/2012/04/first-project-of-ircc-ii-done.html. She is so right once you see them you keep discovering them everywhere!

I played with a few ideas of how I would make them, chainmaile, viking knitting both are techniques I had never tried but since I am just doing this little project because I had scheduled time to work on my fan handle today and the clay will not work I think I am going to go with something very simple.

clay

 was so looking forward to playing with some of my porcelain clay today but sadly it seems like I got a bad batch. Hmmm what can I work on instead?

Camicia

I have started hemming the pieces for the camicia. I have done some hand hemming before but never on such a scale. After I have finished that I think I will piece them together with some sort of decorative stitch. Not sure how I want to do the neckline and if I want to add some embroidery............hmmm