Miscellaneous To Do List items

Haven't been working on too many embroidery projects lately. In March, I've been trying a new thing at o our Tuesday practices/socials. Instead of a formal, one time class on embroidery stitches, I've been doing a kind of Embroiderer in Residence things. March has been outlining stitches. I'm there and available, with loaner stuff in tow, to learn and practice outline stitches. Have also had some copies from one of my embroidery stitch bibles for each stitch we cover. Have had one student, but she seems to be enjoying it and learning from it. We'll keep on doing this. It is meant to be a small, 1-3 person thing, and meant to be the kind of thing that can be joined in on as time allows.

I've also been working on getting some things done from my To Do list.

I have had this fabric forever (probably at least 20 years) and had originally made a sort of short coat to go over tunics and cotehardies, but I was never happy with it. I dug it out of the scrap bin again and changed the sleeves from angel wings to straight, pieced on some more to the ends of the sleeves to make them longer, and made a couple of other small adjustments. Am currently finishing the seams and hems then will add strips of black fur to the edges and around the arms where I pieced in the longer bits.

I have an outfit which is the "comfort' Elizabethan from Margo Anderson's pattern that I made ages ago. It is out of cotton sportswear which has faded a bit. Pondering maybe remaking it out of linen, but not sure yet. Meanwhile, I had popped the seam on one of the arm caps a while ago before the pandemic, so I fixed that bit.

And one of the new things Mom and I are trying out is Norse garb. I had some wonderful trim that I won at an archery shoot at Lilies War and it was perfect for going around the top of my apron dress. I also did up a matching braid to go down the side seams and had enough left to trim a cap.