The collar is attached, the Quilting and lacing eyelets are done.

Got it done last night at about 1:30AM

I got to deliver it to Magnus at fighter practice this afternoon

Here he is modeling his new mantle:

Green Front and Green Back:

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 Woo-Hoo!

It sure is a lot quicker when you are only quilting one way (not doing the double running stitch / saddlestitch thing whatevah) .

You know I was thinking herringbone as it is viewed in a rectangular form...
I had not really taken into account how spider webby it would look being circular and all. 
Poor Magnus might look a little gothier than ( Read more... )

The other night I finished all the radial lines of quilting on the Magnus Mantle.

I was having my doubts, but now that all of one direction of quilting is done, I can see how it is going to act and I'm not so worried about the outcome.

Here is a photo that I took the other day:


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Well, I've mentioned this a couple of times but due to battery shortages, this is the first chance I've had to get some pics ready.

This is the Magnus Mantle. As you can see, it's a work in progress. It's a padded mantle about the proportions of a bishop's mantle, and is meant to be worn as padding under his aventail (a circular piece of chainmail  ( Read more... )

 Well, I'm lucid, and my voice is coming back ( Read more... )