Finished the arm band embroidery for the bias cut bliaut. Currently out on the line after washing. The blue wool is definitely not colourfast, though it doesn't appear to bleed into the embroidery thread too much.
Piccies behind cut or in this sequence here. The first two photos of the armband bits are the most recent and the two of the neckline ( Read more... )

For those with fabric addictions - one or two of you may be reading...
A Dress a Day: HOWTO: Buy FabricAnd after a brief scare last night with the first washing*, collar/embroidered neckline came out fine ( Read more... )

Buggerit.
Flickr is playing silly buggers with links so I can't show direct - leastwise I don't like their autoblog function and my html editing is atrocious. So, you get links instead.

Overall view here and detail hereColour is amazingly off - the base fabric is actually a medium blue ( Read more... )

Very nice extant embroideries:
http://www.drakt.org/Embroidery.html
And some amazing extant pouches:
http://www.drakt.org/Pouches_assorted/ (straight directory of images, soem with more explanation than others)
And some more pouches
http://www.eleanorlebrun.com/GermanPurseCharts.htm

Time to stop drooling...

Horray for working somewhere that still carries chalk (and blackboards) in the tea room.
Unfortunately needs an embroidery hoop for tensioning, otherwise it is going to pucker in interesting ways...
Itchy fingers... wanna work on embroidered cushion... but will be good while waiting for spectral line synthesis code to run... Besides, have

So, having gotten 30-45cm by ~1.8m of nice even weave (linen?) embroidery fabric for 80c, I want to make cushions out of it. Specifically bolster style cushions which can double as pillows on the Viking bed. Long rectangular ones, that can also sit on the chests etc.
So far, so good. Next step, picking a design.
( Thud (digression into Viking art styles and textiles (long)) )