Heavenly Rose banner
6/12/2009 01:32:00 AM Edit This 0 Comments »
Getting close! This is the banner I was requested to create for the Heavenly Rose team for Saturday's Golden Rose Tournament. Done in Atlantia-blue cotton twill, with gold poly/cotton jacquard for the escallop and roses. Ermine spots are black twill, machine appliqued onto the escallop.
The detail on the roses and the lines on the escallop were hand embroidered, and there is some really nice tri-textured gold upholstery piping around the edges. The tassel was honestly the hardest part - finding a tassel that was the right color and floofy enough for my taste was... festive.
I'm letting it hang overnight and then it gets one last solid ironing before the tabs are inserted into the top, and then I'm done! The last of the embroidery was done tonight in class - it's kinda cool, most of the folks I know at school think that the SCA stuff I do is pretty neat, so they were all politely interested in the banner and the event this weekend. Have I mentioned lately that I really love my classmates? I do. They rock.
Off to bed. Work tomorrow, then a festival of getting stuff ready for Saturday. Too much to do, not enough time! Somewhere in there I hope I can get the sleeves set into my brown kirtle and hem it - I'd love to wear it on Saturday. We'll see. *fingers crossed*
(Forgive the craptacular camera phone photo. Too late and too tired to drag out the real thing.)
The detail on the roses and the lines on the escallop were hand embroidered, and there is some really nice tri-textured gold upholstery piping around the edges. The tassel was honestly the hardest part - finding a tassel that was the right color and floofy enough for my taste was... festive.
I'm letting it hang overnight and then it gets one last solid ironing before the tabs are inserted into the top, and then I'm done! The last of the embroidery was done tonight in class - it's kinda cool, most of the folks I know at school think that the SCA stuff I do is pretty neat, so they were all politely interested in the banner and the event this weekend. Have I mentioned lately that I really love my classmates? I do. They rock.
Off to bed. Work tomorrow, then a festival of getting stuff ready for Saturday. Too much to do, not enough time! Somewhere in there I hope I can get the sleeves set into my brown kirtle and hem it - I'd love to wear it on Saturday. We'll see. *fingers crossed*
(Forgive the craptacular camera phone photo. Too late and too tired to drag out the real thing.)
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