Background:
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.
So based on this:
I came up with this design:
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.
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. I'm still counting it towards the A&S 50 challenge!
This is a limp bound book I made a while ago. It was used as the vigil sign-in book, so I got to sign it first! This, however, doesn't count :(
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.
So based on this:
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:
The recipient at her elevation.
This is a limp bound book I made a while ago. It was used as the vigil sign-in book, so I got to sign it first! This, however, doesn't count :(
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