Mistress Dziuginte Litovka was elevated to the Order of the Pelican on 1/7/12. DZ's persona is 14th Century Lithuanian and a shawl is more appropriate for her persona than a cloak. This was a last minute rush (less than a month - around the Christmas holidays) and though I wanted to embroider it more and hand sew the embroidery on, I ran out of time (I forgot how time consuming hand embroidery was) and wound up using a machine to sew it on and I hate how it turned out. The shawl is wool, the embroidery thread is wool and the embroidery was done free-style.
Some closeups of my less than spectacular needlework. It looks better than the machine sewn decorative stitch I tried to add when I ran out of time to hand sew the border on:
This is a limp bound book I made a while ago - read about it here. It was used as the vigil sign-in book, so I got to sign it first!
My daughter is modeling it with it draped across the front. Someone else is acquiring the brooches and necklace strands for the recipient so it can be worn in a more period style.
The inspiration
Some closeups of my less than spectacular needlework. It looks better than the machine sewn decorative stitch I tried to add when I ran out of time to hand sew the border on:
I would have loved to keep repeating the pattern across the whole bottom, but there was a time crunch (ask me in person about that). I am not the quickest embroiderer - each one of those flower/snakes took me two hours! So I wound up with 3 unadorned pelicans on each side between the 2 corner ones adorned with her badge. So yeah, needed a lot more lead time.
The recipient at her elevation.
This is a limp bound book I made a while ago - read about it here. It was used as the vigil sign-in book, so I got to sign it first!
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