(Cross posted from my blog here: Permalink: http://www.kimiko1.com/blog/?p=120)

There are days when I get sidetracked into looking up an image. Today was one of those days when I was reading about the different types of blackwork on the Historic Hand Embroidery group. They hadn't posted an image of Hans Holbein's works that have blackwork ( Read more... )

Some time ago, I was busy working my hands getting some accessories made for Caid's Pentathlon A&S competition. I was so busy I didn't blog much about them. Sadly, I ended up very sick a few days before the event, and cancelled my plans to go as I remained sick through that weekend. Needless to say I was very frustrated as I'd put a lot of time and ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven't posted in a long while. I've been madly trying to get projects done or dealt with for this weekend's Caid A&S Pentathlon competition. My hands have been busy (and getting tired) with hand sewing stockings, and making fingerloop braids, and I also need to do up documentation as well still. I'm entering 3 items only this time, my ( Read more... )

Today I spent a bit of time braiding up my hair, and taking photos of what I look like with the hair up and braided, then with the front braids taped (using a blunt needle), and then with the English bonnet being worn. The first few tries were not as good, but the final two photos seems to have done the trick.

The photo album is now here on FB ( ( Read more... )

I'm not feeling like it is worth posting this directly here right now. But if you haven't seen the photos of the mostly done English gable bonnet, I posted them to FB here and here. If those don't show up, it is in this small public photo album here.

As a reminder, they are based on these two portraits (links given). Jane Seymour for the general ( Read more... )

I've been sewing a lot this weekend. Yesterday at our Baronial A&S day, I spent it hand sewing the wrist ruffs, which I had started the weekend before, got stuck when I realized the one strip was twice as long as it should be and ignored it until yesterday. Both wrist ruffs got finished right before I headed home for game night yesterday afternoon ( Read more... )

Actually starting to work on things again, outside of my computer that is. I've been busy working on next week's Collegium Caidis classroom stuff, mostly gathering pics and putting thoughts down into a presentation for the two classes on Tudor clothing. Still have work to do there. But I did promise a friend I would get her a gable hood for her to ( Read more... )

I've been busy the past few nights helping to proof the final instructions for the Tudor Lady's Wardrobe, at least for the historical content. I just e-mailed it back to Margo. Soon folks, it will be out soon ( Read more... )

Yesterday I finished up the buckram cutting, and pattern mods for the outer fabrics. Today I am slowly ... very slowly, hand sewing the millinery wire to the buckram base. It was getting annoying, as the cotton sewing thread I was using, even with heavy waxing, was coming apart under the tension, or falling out of the needle, which being a ( Read more... )

I am working on making gable hood mockups in poster board. They are from Margo's upcoming Tudor Ladies' wardrobe set (at the printers), and I will have these mockups and hopefully one finished gable hood at my class at CoCo in less than a month (eep!) along with my French hoods and Anne of Brittany mockups ( Read more... )