Vika's Vexatious Vestments

A fractal journey through the textile arts

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Snippets and Orts

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Orts are the little bits of thread you snip off of a seam or a project that are too short to do anything with.  There. You learned somethi...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

When The Class's Birth Is Breech

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Limited number of these. My usual slow ("measured", yes.) pace of class creation has been rendered even more sluggish on this...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

How a Class is Born

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Presented without comment. Some months previous, I had committed to teach at a  schola  way down I-95--they were looking for embroidery ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

The Pouch of Damocles: Tussling with Tassels

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Pouches (with tassels!), Manesse Codex, early 14thc. Having completed all the construction portions of the purse, what remained was det...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

The Pouch of Damocles: Livin' On The Edge

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S'up. (Disclaimer: this post has rather a lot of turgid weaving detail.) When last we left off, I was dithering about how precise...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

The Pouch Of Damocles

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Here's where we are starting today.  And indeed where we have been since August 2014, ahem. I had determined that, as a sort of e...
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Sunday, December 27, 2015

December's Fallow Fields

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This is a pretty good visual analogy, actually. It would appear I was more burned out than I thought, a condition which was not assisted...
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