Heraldic surcoat in action

Master Caelin took was kind enough to share his photos of the Ansteorran Crown Tournament on Flickr.    As a result, I can share some action shots of the finished heraldic surcoat!  The pictures are linked in from his Flickr feed.


Sir Ysfael vs. Lord Ragnarr



Centurion Rose and Sir Ysfael


Previous posts on surcoat construction:
http://helenestuff.blogspot.com/2014/12/heraldic-surcoat.html
http://helenestuff.blogspot.com/2015/01/finished-heraldic-surcoat.html

Finished - Heraldic Surcoat

The heraldic surcoat is finished, washed, ironed, and delivered!  Hooray!  The wyvern is placed on the hip, so I had to pin in a fold for it to show in the picture.  I didn't attend Crown Tournament this weekend, so I am hoping that friends got pictures of the surcoat in action.




The wyvern was quite tedious, but a very gratifying project.  I've done a lot of machine applique and there is definitely a difference between the finished product of hand work and the machine work. The combination of applique and embroidery have a nice drape to them.  I'm always amazed at how lovely linen looks after it's all pressed out and hung up.  Yowza!

Heraldic surcoat

I have a little time off for the holidays and my fun project is a heraldic surcoat for a friend of mine. Here are a few teaser photos of the work in progress. The surcoat itself is machine sewn. The cross was appliqued with my sewing machine using a blanket stitch after I ironed down all the edges. The embroidery is by hand using a #12 pearl cotton. The wyvern is going to be all by hand, both applique and embroidery. The term "fiddly" doesn't even begin to describe the displayed wyvern.