hmmm, awww, ouch!
So last night, I snuggled into the heating pad and set to work on the stem stitch border for the panel. Of course I couldn't stop there, so I moved onto spacing out and stitching down some spangles. Oh, shiny.
Pictures:
Panel as of 11pm on 2/5/09- Just needs hemming, and possibly some leaf veins in gold.
One of the things I found kind of interesting was that two of the embroidered coifs in the MFA collection have this stem stitch border around the edge of the design, and then go into the blanket stitch edging, or casing hemming, etc. Though the colors in the coifs were different, they both used this pale green for the outline. MFA 43.249 (no pictures online) and another unnumbered coif we saw. Though not universal, you can see similar stem stitch edgings on these coifs from the Coif Gallery on the Elizabethan Costuming pages: brown outline with green blanket stitch edge, a metallic outline much like that of MFA 43.248, green(?) outline without a blanket stitch edge, and a black outline on blackwork coif.
Obligatory cute pup picture on her new snuggly bed.
And the icy scene of my butt's demise:
I went to the chiropractor this morning again to get another adjustment. Portions of back still stiff, right hip still crunchy. I think the left knee soreness might be from compensating for the right hip. Who knows. Of course nothing remains at the scene of the fall except a few minor ice floes, and the memory.
Pictures:
Panel as of 11pm on 2/5/09- Just needs hemming, and possibly some leaf veins in gold.
One of the things I found kind of interesting was that two of the embroidered coifs in the MFA collection have this stem stitch border around the edge of the design, and then go into the blanket stitch edging, or casing hemming, etc. Though the colors in the coifs were different, they both used this pale green for the outline. MFA 43.249 (no pictures online) and another unnumbered coif we saw. Though not universal, you can see similar stem stitch edgings on these coifs from the Coif Gallery on the Elizabethan Costuming pages: brown outline with green blanket stitch edge, a metallic outline much like that of MFA 43.248, green(?) outline without a blanket stitch edge, and a black outline on blackwork coif.
Obligatory cute pup picture on her new snuggly bed.
And the icy scene of my butt's demise:
I went to the chiropractor this morning again to get another adjustment. Portions of back still stiff, right hip still crunchy. I think the left knee soreness might be from compensating for the right hip. Who knows. Of course nothing remains at the scene of the fall except a few minor ice floes, and the memory.