Katrein Topffer

Challenges Entered: Embellish It

Project: Embellishing a Celtic Dress

I chose to embellish a Celtic dress I made for my first Pennsic (2019). This is my first A&S submission since I joined the SCA in 2019.

I have been learning embroidery for the past year or so. I made an embroidered band for the hem of the dress. It is nearly finished but I have a bit more to go so I pinned it to the dress, for now.

I also decided to learn how to do tablet weaving and add that to the top of the dress. This is my first successful woven band.

In addition, I entered the Lace Challenge and attempted, again, to make a sprang bag to go with this dress. I was somewhat success, and this has been added for embellishment, as well.

I have many more plans now that I have started the embellishments! Thank you for this challenge, it was fun, useful and I learned a lot.

The first picture is of the dress before I did anything to it. The second is of the embellished dress, to this point. The third and fourth pictures are of details of the tablet woven band and the embroidery band.