Intarsia no more Bag Project

 So, remember the Intarsia bags I was making as prizes for an archery shoot? Yeah, about that. The blue wool was crappy. It shredded. The whole thing tore out like perforated paper. Don't really know why. Maybe it was a mix of fibers not 100% wool. Who knows. But onward and upward.

Now they are just plain applique bags. Good old surface applique edge with gilded leather is also a period technique so there we go. Just frustrating that I lost so much time messing about with the other. Got a lot done on them at Lilies War. They are for an event Fourth of July weekend. Hopefully I'll get them done. Will add some more recent progress pics soon.

German Brick Stitch patterns

 One of the things I love doing with German Brick Stitch is making up my own patterns. It lends itself well to heraldry but some things can be easier to do in "pixel art" than others. For a while now I've been working on some patterns for Mistress Zuriel incorporating her personal heraldry, her household Darkyard, and her peerages of the Pelican and Laurel.

A month or so ago, I finally finished! Really happy with the results and she is too. So we have her skull, the Darkyard tree, a laurel wreath, and the pelican's blood droplets, because, dang, trying to work out a pelican in her piety in brick stitch would have been super hard.

Silk Ribbon Hem Finishing

 A friend from Calontir was posting about using silk ribbon as an inside hem finishing technique, something she had learned about from another Calontir friend. I had also seen a similar technique on a video on Norse garb... I wish I could remember which one. It was probably Wyrd Kindred (https://www.youtube.com/@WyrdKindred), but not sure. I decided to give it a try on this orange jacket of mine because the fabric is pretty thick and the hems even more so. After a bit of futzing to figure out how best to do this and hold everything in place while I stitch, I ended up using clips and am pretty happy with how it has turned out.