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14th century hood with roses for Elisenda de Luna, 14th century projects, Craft with Racaire, Embroidery, Gold embroidery / gold work, Gold Thread, How to start a new thread, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Misc. step by step embroidery tutorials, Projects, Rose, Rose embroidery for Elisenda's 14th century hood, Silk Thread, Surface Couching

More about the rose embroidery for my friends hood .5.2 – some gold thread embellishment for the border of the rose leaf :)

2017/01/26

Woohoo! I am working on a super secret project at the moment! 😀 …and though I can’t really share any information or progress pictures concerning the new project until it’s finished and the recipient got it, you really don’t need to worry that I might take a break from posting until the project is finished. On the contrary! I took so many pictures of my recent embroidery and sewing projects that I can keep you quite busy until I can finally reveal my new, super secret project. 🙂 Which brings me right to the topic of todays posting. In my last two postings I showed you my two work steps concerning the silk shading embroidery for the rose…

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14th century hood with roses for Elisenda de Luna, 14th century projects, Basics, Craft with Racaire, Embroidery, Gold embroidery / gold work, Gold Thread, How to start a new thread, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Medieval Embroidery Hands On Tutorials, Misc. step by step embroidery tutorials, Projects, Rose embroidery for Elisenda's 14th century hood, Silk Thread, Surface Couching

More about the rose embroidery for my friends hood .2 – starting the surface couching

2016/10/03

Wow! What a week! During the last days I was struggling with fighting off a head cold as well as finally facing my driving test. As easy as embroidery and some other things might come to me, I really struggle a lot when it comes to taking any kind of tests. And the driving test, which took place yesterday, was definitely no difference. I was a complete wreck before, during and after the test and not even my dear husband was able to calm me down…

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12th century belt, 12th century projects, Basics, Embroidery, How to do pearl embroidery, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Pearl embroidery, Pearls, Projects

12th century belt for my 12th century wedding dress – pearl embroidery .3

2016/03/08

During the last weeks I was busy preparing for Gulf Wars and actually wanted to work on my “leg armor” for SCA “Heavy Fighting” today. Given the amount of layers and the thickness of the material I decided to do the sewing with the help of my sewing machine. But, well, after several hours facing a never ending fight with my sewing machine, I think I finally have to face the sad truth. My sewing machine really hates me and doesn’t want to cooperate with me at all. *sigh* But life is too precious to end the day feeling frustrated and defeated. Therefore I finally decided to stop fighting my sewing machine…

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12th century belt, 12th century projects, Basics, Craft with Racaire, Embroidery, How to do pearl embroidery, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, Medieval Embroidery Hands On Tutorials, Pearl embroidery, Pearls, Projects

12th century belt for my 12th century wedding dress – pearl embroidery .1

2016/02/20

And today let’s talk about one of my other favorite topics besides Klosterstich and surface couching – pearl embroidery! 😀 Well, pearls per se were and still are something very special. Their availability is quite limited and their price is rather high due to the natural production process. Besides the beautiful appearance and shine pearls possess naturally, their rather restricted availability as well as their quite high monetary value might have added to their great appeal in the medieval age. I think that the usage of pearls for jewelry or pearl embroidery used to reflected the wealth of the person who could actually afford to use them in either high quality (large, round and with a perfect surface appearance)…

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14th century Meridian Cross Cyclas / sideless surcote, 14th century projects, Applique, Chain Stitch, Embroidery, Hand-Sewing, How to prepare patches for appliqué, How to use embroidery models / Schablonen, Medieval Embroidery, Projects

My new “Meridian Cross Cyclas” – a Manesse inspired 14th century cyclas / sideless surcote .1 – the appliqué embroidery

2015/11/20

Yeah, it’s true and no typo – I made a 14th century cylas / sideless surcote for me! Or how I call the newest addition to my wardrobe: my 14th century “Meridian Cross Cyclas”! 😀 How come? Well, while I was living in the kingdom of Drachenwald – the SCA group covering Europe, the middle East and South Africa – I wasn’t able to make it to many SCA events. Not that I didn’t want to but quite many of the events were out of my budget due to the required travel to the location in a rather far away country like Sweden, Finland, UK,… Therefore my normal event count per year was about 1 to maximal…

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14th century projects, 14th century XL hood for Pelican elevation, Applique, Appliqué border embellishment, Basics, Embroidery, How to prepare patches for appliqué, Knight belts, Medieval Embroidery, Pelicans

White 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – embroidery .4 – how I created the embroidered Pelican patches .2

2015/10/21

In my last posting – “White 14th century XL hood for a friends Pelican elevation – embroidery .4 – how I created the embroidered Pelican patches .1” – I showed you how I created the two different kinds of golden beaks for the embroidered pelicans. After this step and and after finishing the rest of the embroidery for the pelicans, I decided to add even more embroidery. Instead of removing the base fabric in-between the knighthood belt and the pelican embroidery, which didn’t have any appliqué or other kind of embroidery, I made the decision to fill this empty space with lovely purple silk/wool thread.

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"Helping Lines" for embroidery, 14th century inspired pattern - surface couching on red silk, 14th century projects, Embroidery, Medieval Embroidery, Projects, Surface Couching

Sneak peek at my next embroidery project – a 14th century inspired pattern worked in surface couching .9

2015/08/05

Yesterday, after a weekend filled with fishing and hanging out with some of our good friends, I finally got back to work at two of my embroidery projects again. First I managed to flatten the seams and also the rest of the fabric of the 14th century XL hood. And I also ironed the lovely purple wool fabric which I got for the appliqué embroidery.

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14th century hood, 14th century projects, Blackwork, Chain Stitch, Embroidery, How to use embroidery models / Schablonen, Projects

My pink 14th century hood with long liripipe & decorative chain stitch embroidery – revisited

2015/07/09

And now, that I already started my new 14th century hood project for a friend – about which I told you yesterday – I would like to take the chance and tell you a little bit more about my other 14th century hood projects. As some of you might remember, I already revisited my 14th century hood with daggings, long liripipe and decorative chain stitch embroidery project last year. This 14th century hood was my favorite hood until I decided to give it away to a very nice friend whom I met at an SCA event in England – at Rhaglan.

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Books, Books - Embroidery, Craft with Racaire, Embroidery, How to start a new thread, Klosterstich, Klosterstich tutorial, Medieval Embroidery, Medieval Embroidery Hands On Tutorials

Klosterstich hands on tutorial – part 1 – how to start your Klosterstich embroidery :)

2014/11/04

Before we get to the next steps of how to sew a perfect fitting medieval 14th century stocking based on my most recent stocking pattern tutorial, I have the very first part of my Klosterstich hands on tutorial about “how to start Klosterstich embroidery” for you. Already some time ago I promised to put together this Klosterstich hands on tutorial as an addition to my Klosterstich technique handout. It is a summery of my experience based on several Klosterstich classes which I hold throughout the last years.

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#2 Fast & easy Pouch, 14th century projects, Basics, Chain Stitch, Chain Stitch for Hand-Sewing, Craft with Racaire, Embroidery, Hand-Sewing, How to start a new thread, Pouch for my 14th century inspired Backgammon Game, Projects

Craft with Racaire – Project 2 – fast and easy pouch tutorial – Step 3.5 – Chain Stitch & how to start a new thread

2014/06/29

We are already very close to finish the hand sewing of the fast and easy pouch. It took several steps and detailed photo tutorials but I have great news for you: there are just two small steps concerning the hand sewing part left. 😀 The last posting was about the practical application of chain stitch as a decorative hand sewing for the top of this pouch project. But well, no sewing or embroidery thread is endless therefore: Todays motto is: “Chain Stitch & how to start a new thread” Todays detailed photo tutorial is especially devoted to the readers of my blog who are new to hand sewing or hand embroidery (and the chain stitch). The following tutorial will show you how…

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