(Crossposted from my blog: http://www.kimiko1.com/blog/?p=133)

This is old, and I've been dealing with more personal problems, but I figured I should still share what I had done. Blackwork was finished on the high neck smock, at least for the front chest area. I still need to work on the cuffs, and add in the gold threads.


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I've not been doing a whole lot lately in my creative work, other than thinking about things and trying to figure out how to do other things. But when the whim strikes I do some blackwork embroidery ( Read more... )

I was supposed to be at MAAS this weekend, which is why I started this project to work on and teach kids there. But my friend who was providing a ride, got very sick, and my off-hand is sore, and I have other issues, so no travel this weekend.


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Actually, I am almost done, but am waiting to finish it after dinner tonight, or maybe tomorrow morning as I'm feeling blah ( Read more... )

I realized I need a new smock. Specifically I need a new smock that will have blackwork on it, since my old blackwork shirt is old, sad looking, and was not good embroidery to begin with (it was my first attempt at blackwork using waste cloth). It will be a high-necked Elizabethan smock, to go with my MAAS kirtle & Gown. So the blackwork must be ( Read more... )