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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