Baronial Guard Badge Complete

Baronial Guard Badge Complete, originally uploaded by Jane Stockton.

This is the finished badge. I used a cardboard template, covered in interfacing to pull the embroidery over. It will be outlined in thick gold cord once it is sewn onto the sash. It is very shiny!! I am entering it in the Heraldic Embroidery competition this weekend at May Crown, I will let everyone know how I went.

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Baronial Guard Badge - Embroidery Done

Baronial Guard Badge - Shiny, originally uploaded by Jane Stockton.

I finally dragged out the Baronial Guard Badge and did the last couple of hours work on it. Now all I have to do is "make it up". I'm thinking of backing it with buckram or cardboard to help give it some body. It will be sewn on a sash and I think stiffness will help make it look nicer. Because of the materials, it can't be washed so the cardboard shouldn't be a problem.

Baronial Guard Badge, originally uploaded by Jane Stockton.

Baronial Guard Badge made using red and green silk ground, with imitation Japanese gold thread. Basic couching work. This image is taken in indirect sunlight to show the design.

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Gloucester Shakespeare Festival, 2007

Got an early start, picked up a couple of people at 8am and headed off to Gloucester for the Shakespeare Festival. We were the second to arrive at about 9.45am so we made pretty good time. Helped to set up the tents, put up banners, put embroidery out for display.

It was a nice day, still too warm to be wearing wool. I think I need to start being less authentic at these events. I don't think anyone really cares if I'm being authentic, they are only there for the fighting.

There was a pretty good turnout, but very few food places and no Turkish people!! The golzemes are my main reason for going! We found out later in the day that the Tocal Field Day was on, so that's where everyone had gone.

We left at about 3.30pm, I dropped Lara and Tim off, and treated myself to a Butter Chicken from Beaumont St. Was dog tired, hit the sack at 9.30pm.

Here is a video of some fighting, I've been trying to get this to work in YouTube for hours, but couldn't. So here it is in GoogleVideo. It looks better with the screen slightly smaller, ah well:

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Bloodtree Festival

We went down to the Central Coast for the Bloodtree Festival. We had a pretty good turn out from the Barony, and as usual, as soon as we arrived, people were asking us when the first fighting demo would be on. The crowd for the first one was so large I couldn't get close enough for photos.

You can see images of the day in my Flickr Bloodtree Festival set. Some pictures of me in my full outfit.

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Embroidery Night

I had one person show up to my embroidery night last night. They are working on a needlepoint project, so they started marking up the fabric. I was able to dig up a few skeins of yarn they needed that I had spare in my stash. So while things are starting of slowly, we now have two new projects on the go (although the needlepoint one was already well into the planning stages). Hopefully, we might get a couple more going.

I am going to start work on my klosterstitch project tonight. I need to add a couple of elements to the design and then I can start putting the transfer pencil on. Then by this weekend, we might have some stitches in. But I am going to have to ask Racaire for some advice.

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