Hi there. Has it really only been four weeks since I last posted? It feels like YEARS AND YEARS since Rowany Festival. In the last four weeks I had two weeks without any internet because something broke and our provider had to find the problem and then they discovered it was actually Telstra's problem so they had to ask Telstra to fix it. Then they fixed it and I left the day after to go to the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference in Melbourne which was TOTALLY AWESOME :D I got to watch lots of gross videos of cancer larynxes and people who couldn't swallow properly trying to swallow noodles and rice and totally failing. And TONGUE ULTRASOUND. But that's a whole other story and not related to medieval stuff at all.
May Crown happened somewhere in the last few weeks as well. I day tripped and had a really fun day catching up with lots of interstate visitors and getting waaay too excited about each and every bout in the tournament. There were way to many re-fights and a whole bunch of my favourite people were trying to eliminate each other which was all a little too much for me emotionally. Also Mistress Catherine was admitted to the Order of the Laurel! Yay! Elevations to the Order of the Laurel only happen once every ten years over on this side of the kingdom, so it was all very exciting.
At Festival Mistress Acacia inspired me to try double stitching my German Brick Stitch projects, so I've decided that I'm going to make a pouch all proper with the double stitch, and then get it graded for the Worshipful Company of Broiderers. This is how much I've done:
But wait, that looks an awful lot like the last embroidery project I started. That's because I abandoned the other one and I've started again with the double stitch technique, and with silk instead of cotton. I'm having a little trouble with it because I'm using the 40 count linen which really needs three strands for good coverage, but because I'm double stitching I only get a choice of two or four strands. I've picked four which looks fine, but when I'm filling in the centre of the motif it gets really difficult to push the needle through the holes with all the silk bulking them up already. I've found that sometimes when I push the needle through, the stitches that are already there get pushed forward as well and it looks a bit messy in places. I think I might need a different needle but I don't know anything at all about them. I just went to the shop to buy everything for my first project and picked out a random packet of Anchor cross stitch needles. The packet says they're size 24, but I have no idea what that means. If anyone has any tips I'd be very happy to hear them :)
That's about all that's happening in my SCA world at the moment. There's a few events coming up but I won't be going to them because of assignments and exams. I'll also just be sticking to my one embroidery project for the foreseeable future for the same reason. I'll just plod along with the embroidery during my down time, which is a little rare at the moment.
May Crown happened somewhere in the last few weeks as well. I day tripped and had a really fun day catching up with lots of interstate visitors and getting waaay too excited about each and every bout in the tournament. There were way to many re-fights and a whole bunch of my favourite people were trying to eliminate each other which was all a little too much for me emotionally. Also Mistress Catherine was admitted to the Order of the Laurel! Yay! Elevations to the Order of the Laurel only happen once every ten years over on this side of the kingdom, so it was all very exciting.
At Festival Mistress Acacia inspired me to try double stitching my German Brick Stitch projects, so I've decided that I'm going to make a pouch all proper with the double stitch, and then get it graded for the Worshipful Company of Broiderers. This is how much I've done:
But wait, that looks an awful lot like the last embroidery project I started. That's because I abandoned the other one and I've started again with the double stitch technique, and with silk instead of cotton. I'm having a little trouble with it because I'm using the 40 count linen which really needs three strands for good coverage, but because I'm double stitching I only get a choice of two or four strands. I've picked four which looks fine, but when I'm filling in the centre of the motif it gets really difficult to push the needle through the holes with all the silk bulking them up already. I've found that sometimes when I push the needle through, the stitches that are already there get pushed forward as well and it looks a bit messy in places. I think I might need a different needle but I don't know anything at all about them. I just went to the shop to buy everything for my first project and picked out a random packet of Anchor cross stitch needles. The packet says they're size 24, but I have no idea what that means. If anyone has any tips I'd be very happy to hear them :)
That's about all that's happening in my SCA world at the moment. There's a few events coming up but I won't be going to them because of assignments and exams. I'll also just be sticking to my one embroidery project for the foreseeable future for the same reason. I'll just plod along with the embroidery during my down time, which is a little rare at the moment.
