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I found two more in-progress embroideries while I was organizing things. One is complete, one has less than one letter done but I remember what I was going to do.
Tha waes Hrothgare here-sped gyfen wiges weorth-mynth, it says, which is the description of the character Hrothgar as introduced in Beowulf.
When my best friend was pregnant with her son, who is now 3, the one I was watching movies with last night, they referred to him as Hrothgar. He was born very early and they didn’t have a name picked out, so I jokingly referred to him as Hrothgar for quite some time. I’m a little disappointed they went with something less, well, weird.
I don’t know what I’m planning on doing with this, it’s a handkerchief-sized panel and I should probably incorporate it into a quilt or something, but I don’t know, I don’t quilt. It’s not super legible, it’d be best as part of a larger thing, it doesn’t stand alone. It’s rainbow floss plied with dark brown, cotton, on linen.
The other embroidery I found had part of the first letter of an inscription from an artifact from the Staffordshire Hoard on it, that I liked. Surge domine et disepentur inmici tui et fugent qui oderunt te a facia tua. Rise up O Lord and may thy enemies be scattered and those who hate thee driven from thy face.
Fascinatingly, on the back of the scrap of paper where I’d worked out how many letters were in that, I found the sketch from a project I’d forgotten I did. I did a mixed-media pillowcase that i gave to my roller derby team captain: it was painted and embroidered, and said “Baddest BETCH” and had a set of brass knuckles incorporated into the design. I don’t remember if they were embroidered or painted. I’m sure some of it was sparkly gold. I know the background was blue cotton I dyed myself. The quote was a reference to something she frequently said. (She’d say “All right betchezzzz!” when it was time to warm up.)
I don’t think I took any process photos on that, or even a final picture when it was done. I’m not very good at that. But it was a nice reminder that I don’t forget or lose all my projects; I have occasionally completed things and given them away.
I found two more in-progress embroideries while I was organizing things. One is complete, one has less than one letter done but I remember what I was going to do.
Tha waes Hrothgare here-sped gyfen wiges weorth-mynth, it says, which is the description of the character Hrothgar as introduced in Beowulf.
When my best friend was pregnant with her son, who is now 3, the one I was watching movies with last night, they referred to him as Hrothgar. He was born very early and they didn’t have a name picked out, so I jokingly referred to him as Hrothgar for quite some time. I’m a little disappointed they went with something less, well, weird.
I don’t know what I’m planning on doing with this, it’s a handkerchief-sized panel and I should probably incorporate it into a quilt or something, but I don’t know, I don’t quilt. It’s not super legible, it’d be best as part of a larger thing, it doesn’t stand alone. It’s rainbow floss plied with dark brown, cotton, on linen.
The other embroidery I found had part of the first letter of an inscription from an artifact from the Staffordshire Hoard on it, that I liked. Surge domine et disepentur inmici tui et fugent qui oderunt te a facia tua. Rise up O Lord and may thy enemies be scattered and those who hate thee driven from thy face.
Fascinatingly, on the back of the scrap of paper where I’d worked out how many letters were in that, I found the sketch from a project I’d forgotten I did. I did a mixed-media pillowcase that i gave to my roller derby team captain: it was painted and embroidered, and said “Baddest BETCH” and had a set of brass knuckles incorporated into the design. I don’t remember if they were embroidered or painted. I’m sure some of it was sparkly gold. I know the background was blue cotton I dyed myself. The quote was a reference to something she frequently said. (She’d say “All right betchezzzz!” when it was time to warm up.)
I don’t think I took any process photos on that, or even a final picture when it was done. I’m not very good at that. But it was a nice reminder that I don’t forget or lose all my projects; I have occasionally completed things and given them away.
