Embroidery is done

Well the embroidery for the bag is all done...yeah!!!! I finished it on Saturday, while I should have been at Crossroads, but finances prohibited me from going. The good thing after this paycheck I will be caught up totally and working toward a new laptop and some savings hopefully. Again...yeah!!!!

I was reviewing how the bag was put together in period, and found I needed a silk ribbon for the top edge...I had silk fabric but no ribbon. So instead of going to the store, I got creative. I took a section of the silk fabric and some Yellow Chrome pigment from my illumination kit and some distilled water...and bam! Instant yellow silk for the top edge and the inside liner. I also don't feel so bad about the hand dyed threads not being so even, cause the silk piece matches the mango thread almost perfectly and that makes me happy. :) So I have silk hanging in my shower drying on a pant hanger with another hanger attached to the bottom to give it weight and straighten it out. It looks pretty I will photograph it before I take it down. So now I can claim to have hand dyed something. And actually in the future instead of paying a fortune for hand dyed silks I will just do that again. It was kind of fun, and I can claim I did it myself as well. :)

I got my graphite paper and traced out the patter for the blackwork band again, it is still really light and hard to see...so we will see if it works. If not. the last ditch effort will be to make up a small light table type thing and do a direct tracing...we will see.

I will also be making a body double of myself with my big girl manequin. I will shape it and size it to my size specifications so I can use it to start making the dress. Plus later I can use it to show the dress not on me at northern lights for judging and stuff.

I will also be picking up fabric for the collar and neckline this weekend to do the actually embroidery on that. So things are going along well.