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my new green 12th century “pull-over” dress finished :D

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…well, I guess some of you thought that my dress is already finished when I posted about the last progress “my new green 12th century “pull-over” dress – handsewing finished & some embroidery :) ” …but well, the neckline was still so awfully “naked” at this time… ;)

…now the dress is really finished and – voila – I took some pictures of the new dress. …but for a picture of me wearing the dress you have to wait until I get to an event were I get to wear it and someone takes a  picture I can post… ;)

…apropos pictures – yes, I found a funny app for my tablet and at the moment I enjoy to morph my picture to look a little bit more used and “old-style”… I think I will continue using it until it will get boring… ;)

…and I really, really, realllllllyyyyyyy like how this project turned out and I love this simple pattern – very simple but also very effective and decorative… I think with this dress project I managed to make another lovely 12th century (inspired) dress… ok, here the promised pictures:

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data…and here some pictures of the progress of the neckline embroidery.
You can see how I worked at the single diamonds at the first picture underneath – I used a small model cut out of cardboard and one simple pin…

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…and to get an idea where I want to put my diamonds I first estimated a rough distance between the single diamonds – actually I just measured the distance between the middle of one diamond to the middle of the next one at my bicep band, yeah, it can be easy like that sometimes ;) – and with the help of a measuring tape and more pins I started to determine the positions for the other diamonds…

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Well, this is a nice technique, but without a lucky chance it never comes out perfect – normally you have not enough or too much distance when you reach the end – so a little bit of repositioning is always needed… yeah, that’s also how I determine the positions of my daggings when I make a dagged hood… works pretty fine and until you start cutting or embroidering you can still adjust if it’s needed. :)

…and yes, again chain stitch for the border and stem stitch for the diamonds :)

my new green 12th century “pull-over” dress – handsewing finished & some embroidery :)

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dataAfter I finished the basic handsewing of my new green dress, I added some bands of white fabric to the maunches and the biceps, as well as to the neckline, to get the lovely, simple but elaborate look of the 12th century for which I strive for.

Because the fabric I am working with was a little bit too short for a full dress – actually this dress was made from 2 nice blankets which I bought at IKEA – I added some blue fabric at the bottom to lengthen the dress that it reaches the ground and I have to say that I very like the look of it – I will take a picture of the whole dress the next time to show you also the bottom part…

Because of the addition of the blue wool fabric at the bottom I decided to use my blue wool thread from Renaissance Dyeing instead green one – which would have matched the green dress fabric – for the embroidery on top of the white fabric – you don’t really recognize the difference if you don’t look close but I think that the blue wool thread gives a slightly different but very interesting feeling to the embroidery especially on the white fabric and so close to the green fabric… :D

…concerning the embroidery – the “stripes” at the border are worked in chain stitch and the diamonds are worked in stem stitch – two very easy embroidery techniques which I like and use a lot. If you aren’t familiar with them yet or new to embroidery – my friend Mary from Needle ‘n Thread has really good tutorials – here her Chain Stitch Video Tutorial and here her Stem Stitch Video Tutorial.

…btw. I think this wool thread is still a part of the ‘leftover’ threads from my Weiberlisten Wallhanging project - yeah, I have some leftover wool threads from this project *lol* …but well, I really like working with the wool threads from Renaissance Dyeing :)

…my new red stockings .2 :D / hand-sewn & embroidered Woman’s hose .4 :)

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…and finally I just finished my second pair of red Merino-wool stockings – again completely hand-sewn and this time also embroidered :) …and here more pictures of my new stockings :)

…btw. you can find this and other progress pictures at my facebook fanpage in the “Red Stockings .3 & .4″ folder :)

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Ebbis hood with embroidery, dagged border, liripipe & face opening finished! :)

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Finally finished – 112 hours of sewing and embroidery and I really hope my friend Ebbi likes the result – I am very pleased with it and even thinking about making a hood with daggings and dagged liripipe for myself *lol*

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Working at Ebbis hood with daggings and dagged liripipe :)

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Sewing and embroidery progress after 93 hours of work – daggings and a dagged liripipe for my friend Ebbi – I hope she likes it so far :)
…btw. you can find here more pictures of the progress: Ebbis Hood with daggings and dagged liripipe

…my new hood with long liripipe finished :)

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Well, as you already might know, I liked my embroidery on Kahinas hood so much that I decided to make one for myself…

…and after I finished the main embroidery – the embroidered lines you can see at the picture – I thought that some beads might look really good and well, I am really very happy about the final look – I really like my new hood and especially the rather easy but cute embroidery :)

Btw. you can find all postings about this project here: “Gugel 5 – copy of Kahinas hood for me”

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