Beaded Snood - Finished

All finished.  I just strung 545 beads to make a large.  Yes, I'm nuts.

11th century Bliaunt - At an impass

Well, I thought I would be posting that I finished my green Bliaunt today, but I've hit a major snag.  I got the gussets pinned and sewn up and the arms sewn up.  Tried it on and realized that the bobbin thread hadn't caught.  I spent two hours sewing and fighting with a jamming bobbin and cleaning and taking the bobbin casing apart only to have it all go up in flames.  Argh.

Good news is a guy in the town 15 minutes away fixes singers and gives free estimates.  I also have two wonderful friends who are going to loan me a sewing machine and to help me find a backup.

OK, next...

11th Century Bliaunt - Green - Day 1

I've changed a few things on this one.  It's a few inches longer and I have to put a back gusset in along with the two side gussets.  The side gussets are right triangles and the back one is two right triangles that I will sew together.  The fabric is a beautiful dark green cotton.  It is a bit shorter than 4 yards so I had to finagle just a bit.  Hey, no problem, it was free (thank you Kate).

Today I got all the pieces cut out.  Front and back pieces, two bell arms and four right triangle gussets.  The neckline is a bit more square.

I trimmed the neckline and then covered the back top with bias tape.  Then I sewed the shoulder seams together.  I turned the piece right side out and sewed the back neck down.  I then pinned on and sewed the sleeves onto the body.  Not bad considering all I intended to do way cut it out today.

Neckline

Back of the neck

Arm seam

11th Century Bliaunt - The Green one

I'm making another Bliaunt in dark green with a white/green thistle trim.  Here is the fabric and the trim.

Beaded snood - Day 2

Here is what it looks like so far.  What do you think?

Beaded snood

This is going to be a bit more of a project than my normal snood.  I can usually knock one of those off in, oh, about 2 days of causal work.  Not this one.  I have to string 436 gold glass beads on the crochet cotton before I can even start to crochet.  I use a needle threader to do this as I don't have a needle that will take the size 10 cotton and still go through the bead.

Yikes, 436 beads and 3 needle threaders later I'm done.  I'll start crocheting tomorrow.

11th Century Bliaunt - Pictures of me in it

Front view

Side View

Side View

Arm

Back