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Friday, November 27, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
beaded Golden Lyre (EK A&S award)
Supplies:
mint green cotton light canvas
white nymo beading thread and beading needle
size 11 glass beads: clear red, opaque blue, opaque gold mix, and a single silver foiled bead for the eye
Tools:
EK Golden Lyre pattern from Cellach of Athena's Thimble
embroidery hoop
In the beginning:
And done:
Now I am looking for a Celtic styled tiger for the next few...
mint green cotton light canvas
white nymo beading thread and beading needle
size 11 glass beads: clear red, opaque blue, opaque gold mix, and a single silver foiled bead for the eye
Tools:
EK Golden Lyre pattern from Cellach of Athena's Thimble
embroidery hoop
In the beginning:
And done:
Now I am looking for a Celtic styled tiger for the next few...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
wire and bone
close up of armband described in bottom photo
20G copper wire single weave necklace
Variety of bone discs, now SCA awards and medallions: carving, scrimshaw (def: Viking design of barely scratching the bone and then inking the scratch).
award for the SCA carved bone, needs polishing yet
arm band: 16G, 20G and 28G copper wire, flat weave
Friday, December 12, 2008
embroidered award
In January 2008 I embroidered an award for my friend, Arnleif the Red. 
The white is an old linen shirt that I reused, rather handily. It was soo soft to embroider on!
The yellow and maroon (a Valkyrie on a horse) are done with stem stitched Paternaya wool thread.
The blue and green runes and lines for the King and Queen's signatures are done with silk thread.
There are also amber colored glass beads used for the rays emanating from the center circle.
The accents are fresh water pearls for eyes and at the base of all of the rays.
Also, matte red size 8 glass and silver metal beads were used for the accents at the outer portion of the rays.
The black background is blanket weight worsted wool.
The white linen was sewn onto the wool background with more silk thread. The open circle on the bottom is for her to put her registered arms when she decides what that will be.
The tabs for hanging are tablet weaving that I had finished awhile back, but never put to use. I bought a wooden long sword and burned "Lady Arnleif the Red" into the handle for display. It fits neatly in the tabs and on her wall.
I had a TON of fun doing this project, from the research to the actual making. The research took nearly four weeks lone. I completed the stitching in a month. Sounds like a long time? Not so much in regards to embroidery. The longest part was the stem red and yellow Valkyrie and horse center circle that took about two weeks alone. The words were done by my friend Dresden. I used her imagry, translated it directly into runes and then stitched, stitched, stitched! I would look forward to doing something like this again, certainly!
The white is an old linen shirt that I reused, rather handily. It was soo soft to embroider on!The yellow and maroon (a Valkyrie on a horse) are done with stem stitched Paternaya wool thread.
The blue and green runes and lines for the King and Queen's signatures are done with silk thread.
There are also amber colored glass beads used for the rays emanating from the center circle.
The accents are fresh water pearls for eyes and at the base of all of the rays.
Also, matte red size 8 glass and silver metal beads were used for the accents at the outer portion of the rays.
The black background is blanket weight worsted wool.
The white linen was sewn onto the wool background with more silk thread. The open circle on the bottom is for her to put her registered arms when she decides what that will be.
The tabs for hanging are tablet weaving that I had finished awhile back, but never put to use. I bought a wooden long sword and burned "Lady Arnleif the Red" into the handle for display. It fits neatly in the tabs and on her wall.
I had a TON of fun doing this project, from the research to the actual making. The research took nearly four weeks lone. I completed the stitching in a month. Sounds like a long time? Not so much in regards to embroidery. The longest part was the stem red and yellow Valkyrie and horse center circle that took about two weeks alone. The words were done by my friend Dresden. I used her imagry, translated it directly into runes and then stitched, stitched, stitched! I would look forward to doing something like this again, certainly!
Monday, December 8, 2008
fondant subtlety
This project was completed for an event held locally October 25. the warm kitchen did not do it justice in the end. Of course, it was a bit of a rush project as I was not initially planning to be the one to do it. It is about three pounds of confectioner's sugar with peppermint extract. There is another ingredient, but I cannot remember it off the top of my head - that is what recipe books are for, eh?!The crowns with tigers represent on each point represent the crowns of the East Kingdom. The tigers were iced with blue blue frosting and attached to the crowns with white icing. The tigers and icing did not particularly like the humidity of the kitchen. I do not have any photos of the completed project available.
Below is more fondant with food coloring to reflect the King and Queen's arms. IT was a BIG hit with the kids! Sweet AND minty!!
Since, I have made marzipan with almonds, confectioner's sugar and pasteurized egg whites. The plan is to make it for Christmas presents. I tried some with dark chocolate at Thanksgiving with the idea to see who would like it. Well, with how fast it went (five minutes, tops), I should make a double batch or four :)
some finished soap
Below is my cure rack. Overflowing for the last couple events of the camping season and for family and friends for Christmas. I try different molds often to see how they come out. The large discs are made from the empty plastic coconut oil containers. The smaller discs are from the plastic containers for crystal lite that my cousin and friend are saving for me for just this purpose. The bars are all cut with a knife from a large block. I have found that the best container that I have used so far is a silverware drawer separator; it gives nice clean edges and only requires one cut to make a bar if I line it with parchment or freezer paper. The flecks are from ground lavender buds. Others contain ground oatmeal, but it does not show well in this photo.
Here is my chocolate soap, just being cut. It has since cured to be dark brown throughout the entire bar (the dark color that looks like a rind). The bar that has the glossy side facing the camera was scraped to recover some of the cocoa butter that I added (at trace to make sure the oils weren't incorporated with the lye solution). I was able to take the scraping and residue from the soap pot (after 24 hours) to make a large awesome smelling soap ball!
Isn't that a LOT of soap?! Eleven pounds total!
There in the lower right corner is the soap ball mentioned above.
Here is my chocolate soap, just being cut. It has since cured to be dark brown throughout the entire bar (the dark color that looks like a rind). The bar that has the glossy side facing the camera was scraped to recover some of the cocoa butter that I added (at trace to make sure the oils weren't incorporated with the lye solution). I was able to take the scraping and residue from the soap pot (after 24 hours) to make a large awesome smelling soap ball!
Isn't that a LOT of soap?! Eleven pounds total!
There in the lower right corner is the soap ball mentioned above.
Carving horn, bone...
My favorite hobby: I reenact the middle ages in the SCA. I pretend that I am a viking from Greenland in the year 1100 or so (usually earlier). My hobbies have veered towards such activities that a viking would do. Nalbinding, horn and bone carving, embroidery, styles and patterns of clothing that have been recovered and re pieced together.
Today I will show you a photo of a blow horn that I carved. I began with the soak in warm water, carve a bit, then soak and carve a bit more... After two days of a few hours at a time, my wrists and hands were in agonizing pain. Ow! Just thinking about it...! So I used diamond-tip dremel bits. Even my little rechargeable dremel is immensely easier than the way "the ole vikings" did it in their day, certainly!
Nice shadow effect,I think. It is not completely finished as fine sanding needs yet to be done. Here's a close up where you can see the fine point sahrpie marker that was used to draw the design. It is supposed to be a gripping beast (rabbit). The deeper one carves into the horn, the darker brown or black the design gets. When it is all dne a glossed up, it'll sure look pur-tee!
Today I will show you a photo of a blow horn that I carved. I began with the soak in warm water, carve a bit, then soak and carve a bit more... After two days of a few hours at a time, my wrists and hands were in agonizing pain. Ow! Just thinking about it...! So I used diamond-tip dremel bits. Even my little rechargeable dremel is immensely easier than the way "the ole vikings" did it in their day, certainly!
Nice shadow effect,I think. It is not completely finished as fine sanding needs yet to be done. Here's a close up where you can see the fine point sahrpie marker that was used to draw the design. It is supposed to be a gripping beast (rabbit). The deeper one carves into the horn, the darker brown or black the design gets. When it is all dne a glossed up, it'll sure look pur-tee!
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