Embroidery progress

I put my whitework embroidery on the scanner. This is what will go on the outside of the collar on my new Sture shirt. Spiffy, isn't it?

I will go with the same design for the cuffs, only skipping the filling in stage - I think. In any case, what you see there is four hours work, being pessimistic, and that includes transferring the design in pencil. So it works up quite fast. My stitches are, as usual, not the most even and neatest things ever, and some strangeness may be due to me waxing the embroidery floss to make it easier to work with. That may be entirely the wrong thing to do, but I don't care. It makes things much easier.

Steaming ahead.

Whitework embroidery on the collar? Done. Total time? Eight hours, almost to the minute. I've pressed it now, as well, and it's looking sharp, let me tell you!

If I'm guessing I'd say the whitework on the cuffs will take two or three hours.

*cackles madly*

Soon I must make the short ruffle that goes on the shirt.

Buttons, buttons, buttons

The Tudor Tailor - Buttonshop:

Allow me to drool... They're all gorgeous, and I would not mind getting any of them. I am, however, particularly partial to the "Thread Cross" to put on a GFD. Mmmmmm, lovely.

ETA: W00t - all things being well, I should have buttons wending their way to my mailbox!