Category Archives: Pouches
My Heraldic Purse
While browsing the Victoria and Albert Museum website last year, I came across this little beauty… The Calthorpe Purse. It inspired me to try to make something similar, but featuring my family heraldry on one side, and the other 3 sides featuring the heraldry of those within the SCA who have inspired me. The purse …
Lochac Arts & Sciences Champion Pouch
In AS49 (2014) Lady Ydeneye de Baillencourt (now THL Violetta Vasari) became the Lochac Arts & Sciences Champion. It is traditional for the A&S champion to be given an embroidered pouch to mark their achievement. Azure, a candle enflamed within an arch stooped surrounded by 4 mullets of six points argent (3 gold hawk bells …
#47: Stemstitch Workbag
I’ll be teaching a class on basic embroidery stitches at Pencampwr this weekend and needed a sample of stem stitching. So I decided to madk a little stem stitched draw string bag to store threads in my sewing basket. Worked with Gumnut Yarns silk (gorgeous to work with) on linen, the designs are from A …
#42: Lochac Arts & Sciences Champion’s Pouch
In the Kingdom of Lochac, the annual Kingdom A&S Champion receives an embroidered pouch: “Azure, a candle enflamed within an arch stooped surrounded by 4 mullets of six points argent”. Three gold hawk bells are to be attached at the bottom, and the year of the Championship won is embroidered on the back. I offered …
#20-29: Ten Mouse Guard Pouches
The Kingdom of Lochac has an award called the Mouse Guard – given in recognition of the contribution given to our Kingdom by children between the ages of 4 and 13 years. Each recipient of the award is given a Mouse Guard pouch. I have made ten Mouse Guard pouches, however I forgot to take …
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