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Halloween is a good day to dress up .

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High King Peter the Magnificent llama a.k.a. Roadrunner


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Lion Bag:finished dimensions 8"x9"  
cut 9"x11" from blue panne velvet and red lining  
stitches used: chain, straight, bauyex tapestry stitch, whip, and buttonhole stitch  
four strand braid used as the tie

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Though it's a week or two later.

Way back when I was working on the embroidery for Lucy's Red PC dress I decided I was going to enter it in the county fair. It was worn for pictures and the movie and what-not and a hole was noticed in the lining of the sleeve.

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The movie costume has culottes under the red overskirt so we know I had the right idea. But skirts are so much more Narnian, and this is something she'll wear far more often than the rest of the outfit.


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First, you draw the detailed dagger shape. Then you cut it out of the box flap with your box knife. Then you draw around it on a different part of the box flap and cut the slightly larger dagger shape out.

Cut the blood channel out of the detailed shape. Make hilt detailing.

Then you slit the corrugated cardboard apart so you have three daggers.


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On the advice of Danceler and Meneleve, I'm trying the criss-cross directly on the main fabric.


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