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liadethorneggeAt the end of May in 2010 I started a brick stitch embroidery, just for fun, and because I had a lovely shade of red silk in my stash. I worked all the silk in fairly short order, but when I started with the linen to fill in the rest progress slowed considerably. It ground to a halt. The contrast between working in silk and waxed linen was too great and I lost all interest in finishing the project. But I kept it, of course, and after Visby medieval Week I took it down from the shelf and dusted it off and started again. So, after working diligently at it, I finished the embroidery on it on September 13, 2012.
The first thing I did after removing it from the frame was to take it to the sink to rince it out, because the linen at the start of the embroidery had gone an unhealthy yellowish colour which did not appeal. Unfortunately, as soon as I put it under the tap the red dye in the silk decided to go walkabout. It bled quite a lot! I ran as much water through it as I could and washed out the discolouration from the white linen and then called it quits. You can still see some of the red dye discolouring the white linen, but at least that is clearly from the red silk, and not from some other undefined source of unhealthy filth.
Now I have to make it up into a little bag, make a lining out of some leftover silk fabric, and make cords for closing and suspension out of matching silk thread. I plan on using the pouch during my vigil for (-cencored until after the vigil-).
I'll take some pretty pictures of the embroidery tomorrow in the daylight.
The first thing I did after removing it from the frame was to take it to the sink to rince it out, because the linen at the start of the embroidery had gone an unhealthy yellowish colour which did not appeal. Unfortunately, as soon as I put it under the tap the red dye in the silk decided to go walkabout. It bled quite a lot! I ran as much water through it as I could and washed out the discolouration from the white linen and then called it quits. You can still see some of the red dye discolouring the white linen, but at least that is clearly from the red silk, and not from some other undefined source of unhealthy filth.
Now I have to make it up into a little bag, make a lining out of some leftover silk fabric, and make cords for closing and suspension out of matching silk thread. I plan on using the pouch during my vigil for (-cencored until after the vigil-).
I'll take some pretty pictures of the embroidery tomorrow in the daylight.
