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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 :)

12th century dress project – red silk dress with maunches and surface couching embroidery finally finished! :D

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Wooohoooo! I finally attached the embroidered bands to the upper arm part of my sleeves  - yeahhhhh! the last stitches for this project are done now – I am sooooo excited :D

I just had to sacrifice 4 eyelets per embroidered band – yay, the lacing goes that far… *lol* too bad that I didn’t know this when I made them – 8 eyelets which weren’t really necessary… *lol*

btw. I finally decided to also put some extra support on the bottom part of the neckline at the back because it looks like it is working quite fine for the front – sorry, I forgot to take a pic of it but it looks similar like shown in this posting about the support for the front: “12th century dress project – …extra support of the neckline .2 & embroidered bands for the upper arm .3 :) “

Yay, the red silk dress is finished by now and I really like it :D …get the sparking wine! let’s throw a party! ;)

12th century dress project – …extra support of the neckline .2 & embroidered bands for the upper arm .3 :)

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IMG_20130415_235751_original.jpg…and here finally a picture of the extra support for the bottom part of my neckline – I think I might do the same to the bottom part of the neckline at the back…

A sneak view of the dress with the alteration – well, it looks more stiff then before and I am rather pleased but I haven’t laced the dress really tight yet because I only wanted to see at which height I want to place my embroidered bands at my upper arms (and lacing and un-lacing always takes so much time and effort *lol*)… Yeah, that’s what this embroidered bands are for at which I was working the last days and weeks and I like it :)

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…next step: I will prepare the bands so far that I can attach them to the sleeves – that means that I will insert the same band which I used to reinforce my neckline at the bottom and top of the bands to give them a little bit more support and “body”… and I will surely need “more body” at the top because the bands are so high that they will cover up some of the lacing part which goes rather deep until the point where the maunches are set in… but I already have a solution for this on my mind… :)

…more embroidery for my 12th century silk dress… embroidered bands for the upper arm .2 :)

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…and, after such a long time, finally more embroidery progress for my 12th century silk dress. :)

I finished the embroidery of the basic pattern and just finished filling in the roundels for the embroidered bands which I will attach at the sleeves – at the upper arm (above the elbow) – of my silk 12th century silk dress. :)

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Yes, again surface couching, the technique I already used for the embroidery for the slit neck of my 12th century silk dress – with a very thin silk (from the handweaver studio in London) I couched the thread “Ophir” from the company Coats to the red silk fabric and I am very pleased with how it looks like.

My inspiration for the “filling” of the roundels were again the lovely “animals”, or lets call them “beasts” ;) , from the Bayeux tapestry – which I already used for my “Bayeux dress project” some years ago – one of my favourite fun projects. :)

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…and I know, some of you always like to see the backside of my embroidery and here it is… :)
I always try to keep my backside as nice as possible because I think that it makes working at the front much easier. :)

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…more embroidery for my 12th century silk dress… embroidered bands for the upper arm .1 :)

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my red 12th century silk dress

…some of you will remember my recent 12th century silk dress… and well, it’s still not finished, yay, more embroidery, what else? ;)

During the last months I was – from time to time –  working a little bit on the embroidered bands for this dress and finally there is enough progress to share it with you.

First I thought about doing a slightly different pattern for the bands but then I decided to stick with the same basic design which I did for the slit neckline :)

…and finally – here are the progress pictures of my embroidered bands – the basic design for one band is already finished – now to what I hate most – I have to copy the design for the other band and do it a second time ;)

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…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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