My current project

[frualeydis]

I have now, twelve years after I made the rest of my folk costume, started on the festive scarf/fichu that belongs to it. The fabric is a very thin linen that Bjarne Drews bought for me in Denmark, since it's hard to get hold of this fine linen in Sweden. That was about six years ago, but there's so much enbroidery on it that I haven't felt the urge to start on it ;)
   The reason for the urge this time is that I have got a prize for my research and when you recieve that prize you have to wear formal attire, which in Sweden means that aside from a floor length dress with deep decolletage you can also wear a folk costume. Since I do have a folk costume and I managed to find enough scraps of the bodice fabric to let it out to the size it had originally, before I lost weight a few years ago and was stupid enough to take it in (since I wasn't going to be this fat ever again. Yeah right) I am going to wear my folk costume. However, this requires me to wear teh most festvie version and that would be with this scarf, which is copied after a scarf worn by a farmer's daughter at a wedding at the end of the 18th century.


   According to the description the original was embroidered with chain stitch, but I think it was tambour stitch, which was common on the scarfs and caps that were bought ready made in the late 18th and early 19th century. Tambour stitch is faster if you're a skilled stitcher, but since I'm not and my tambour needle broke the first time I tried it I will use chain stitch. The part that is finished now is maybe 1/10 of the whole, but I have some hope to finish it by Novemer the 6th when I am going to wear it.

   Anyway, all this embroidering makes me feel a little like koshka_the_cat.

Comments

[starlightmasque.livejournal.com]

Wow! That is going to be so gorgeous! You are such a talented lady.

[koshka-the-cat.livejournal.com]

It's lovely!

And you can do it :)

[merastra.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that's going to look really nice. Wow, that's a lot of embroidery though. Nothing like deadlines to keep the motivation high. :-)

[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed! This will be a beautiful addition to your outfit. (I hope you'll show us pictures once it's all done)

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

aside from a floor length dress with deep decolletage you can also wear a folk costume

That is really cool.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I know. I feel insecure about the whole gala dinner at the Royal Hall in Uppsala castle as it is, so I'm happy that I can get some feeling of dignity from wearing my folk costume.

/Eva