pond_ripple's Fabric Blog

Here are the embroidery patterns that I created to go on my ren faire boots . Feel free to use them on any of your personal projects. Selling anything made from them would probably be a copyright headache since they come from combining other people's images so please don't do that. lol. Flying Deer Celtic knotwork Stags Here are the Christmas Ornaments that I used as my guide for the stags. And this is the eagle photo  I used to put wings on the first deer. This isn't the exact image I used, but it's very similar for the knot beneath the deer.

This pair of suede boots was one of the major projects that made up my renaissance faire outfit. It was my first time making shoes of any kind, but they still turned out fabulous and warm! I had a lot of inspiration that went into the final design and I put it all together in a pinterest board  that is still growing.  The main sources that influenced the final design: This pattern was the initial pair of boots that I was going to make, but I have very short legs and wide width feet. That would have basically meant distorting the pattern and doing a load of trial and error to get them to fit, but the simple turnshoe and tongue style were something I did want to incorporate in my finished shoe. So I looked around online to see how to make a boot that actually fit an individual person's foot. This tape mold method was the way that sounded the best to me to get a custom fit while still hanging on to the style of the first boot pattern I liked. And I pick...

This intricate embroidery project has kept me very busy for the past month or so. It started out with a pattern book that I found online:  Modelbuch aller art Nehewercks un Strickens, by Christian Egenolf, 1527 There are a ton of embroidery designs, but these two pages caught my eye: I did a lot of fiddling around with the patterns on my computer to create a perfectly mirrored combination pattern. At first I made it to fit a standard piece of printer paper, but the detail required me to scale up my version to fit on a piece of legal sized paper. This gave me a little bit of trouble when tracing the design onto my fabric due to the loss of resolution. That was solved by first tracing onto a piece of thin tissue paper with a fine pen then using that version to trace with water soluble pen onto my fabric. Here's a group of pictures taken near the tail end of the embroidering stage. Most of the work that I did on this happened while I was on a long car trip over the ho...