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New projects?
2007-08-28 06:30 pmI received a message in my inbox today wherein the great embroidery tempress Racaire invited me to participate in her and Anya's second embroidery challenge: Something to keep you warm. Alert readers will remember that I do not need any new projects, at all. There are already too many projects on my list.
However, (such a fateful word: however), some of those items on my project list are projects to keep me warm. For example #1: Woolen hose, #11 fichets for surcote and #12, Fancy, but warm, sleeves for Spanish ropa.
However (again with that word), the challenge, as set by Racaire and Anya, is an embroidery project, done at least 50% in a technique not usually used by the participant. Hmm, I tell myself, embroidery? On woolen hose, I am afraid there will be very little of that going on. But they are a warm item, and a deadline never hurt my productivity. I could do a pair of linen hose, in which case a bit of cross stitch embroidery around the folded down cuff would not be an entirely unreasonable idea. Documentable and period and all such goodness. Plus, I don't ever do cross stitch embroidery.
For the surcote, the fichets are not specifically for warmth, but would work for warmth, sticking your hands inside the folds of wool. But I can also see myself making a pair of sleeves to be used with this surcote for warmth. Or at least, a pair of warm sleeves to pin to a short sleeved GFD when evening settles in and arms become chilly. How to incorporate embroidery here then? Well, I could do a smallish bit of applique/stem stitching all around the fichets? I wouldn't want to draw undue attention to such openings, but a little bit of stability around them won't hurt. Adding embroidery to the sleeves will be right out, though. I've seen no evidence anywhere to embroidery happening there.
Finally, the Spanish ropa that needs warm but fancy sleeves. If I make them out of the same black wool as the ropa itself, but go wild with couched metallic thread all over them, that would be a nearly new technique for me. The only bit I've done has been on the round sleeves for that ropa, and not very much of it at that. Would that count as a new to me technique?
I have also got a tube of drop-shaped pearls, which I've been meaning to do something with for several years now. A beaded flat cap, or some sort of Elizabethan headwear in any case, and they are definitely warm. But that is a new project, which I did not need any more of, so let's just forget I mentioned it.
However, (such a fateful word: however), some of those items on my project list are projects to keep me warm. For example #1: Woolen hose, #11 fichets for surcote and #12, Fancy, but warm, sleeves for Spanish ropa.
However (again with that word), the challenge, as set by Racaire and Anya, is an embroidery project, done at least 50% in a technique not usually used by the participant. Hmm, I tell myself, embroidery? On woolen hose, I am afraid there will be very little of that going on. But they are a warm item, and a deadline never hurt my productivity. I could do a pair of linen hose, in which case a bit of cross stitch embroidery around the folded down cuff would not be an entirely unreasonable idea. Documentable and period and all such goodness. Plus, I don't ever do cross stitch embroidery.
For the surcote, the fichets are not specifically for warmth, but would work for warmth, sticking your hands inside the folds of wool. But I can also see myself making a pair of sleeves to be used with this surcote for warmth. Or at least, a pair of warm sleeves to pin to a short sleeved GFD when evening settles in and arms become chilly. How to incorporate embroidery here then? Well, I could do a smallish bit of applique/stem stitching all around the fichets? I wouldn't want to draw undue attention to such openings, but a little bit of stability around them won't hurt. Adding embroidery to the sleeves will be right out, though. I've seen no evidence anywhere to embroidery happening there.
Finally, the Spanish ropa that needs warm but fancy sleeves. If I make them out of the same black wool as the ropa itself, but go wild with couched metallic thread all over them, that would be a nearly new technique for me. The only bit I've done has been on the round sleeves for that ropa, and not very much of it at that. Would that count as a new to me technique?
I have also got a tube of drop-shaped pearls, which I've been meaning to do something with for several years now. A beaded flat cap, or some sort of Elizabethan headwear in any case, and they are definitely warm. But that is a new project, which I did not need any more of, so let's just forget I mentioned it.
