VPC2017 Her Excellency Ginevra's Appearance In A Play & Throne And Kneeling Cushions

Her Excellency writes to inform of her appearance in a morality play at Canterbury Faire. This falls into the categories Break A Leg, and Out Of Your Comfort Zone.

Additionally, these throne and kneeling cushions, submitted as Show Us Your Arms, Give What You Get and Embellish It.

VPC2017: Mistress katherine k's Travel Coronet, Coif and Necklace

Mistress katherine has been very busy indeed, submitting several projects to me at once.

These three are a Travel Coronet (Remake, Reuse, Refashion, and Show Us Your Arms, and Embellish It), a Coif (Embellish It) and the Kerr Necklace (The Neck Best Thing)

About the travel coronet, Mistress katherine writes:

This tablet-woven mini coronet was inspired by Viscountess Mountjoye's spiffy example at Faire. It uses one of the lovely tablet-woven garters Mistress Catherine d'Arc gave me which displays the curs' heads and tower from my arms as well as my livery colours or red, white and blue and my motto. It is embellished with the six pearls of a Court Baroness; the copper and brass mounts are actually letterpress printers' thins used to make leadtype tight when setting text, a reference to my Laurel speciality.

 The coif details are:

Adding pearls, beads and some couched gold thread and trim has blinged up a plain commercially made hairnet. 

Finally, the Kerr Necklace:

This necklace is based on the well-known portrait of Anne Boleyn from the UK's National Portrait Gallery, in which Anne has a capital B suspended from a pearl choker around her neck. I've had a craftwood initial K for a number of years, but delayed making this, hoping to be able to find a metal K rather then use a wooden one. Some slathering of gold paint has produced something that may pass in low light and I finally found a use for the large string of big freshwater pearls I've had for a while.

 The portrait of Anne Boleyn can be found here.

 

VPC2017: Lady Margaretta's Painted Chair

This painted chair back is Lady Margaretta's entry for Embellish It.
She has taken an existing blue fabric chair, and embellished it with black and white paint by painting her device on it (this means it also qualifies for Show Us Your Arms)

Here are before and after shots:

VPC 2017: Mistress Taddea's Skjoldehamn Hood

This is Mistress Taddea's second Pentathlon Challenge entry, and she completed it within two days, which is impressive. It is a Skjoldehamn hood, and was made for a newcomer, and given to them to wear at their first event. It is an entry in the categories One Metre Material Project, Give What You Get (gift for a newcomer), The Neck Best Thing and Embellish It. 

Fabric and embroidery are both wool. Embroidery is simple chain stitch and running stitch.

VPC2017: Lady Melissa's Painted Shield

Lady Melissa's first entry for the Pentathlon Challenge is this painted shield. It is entered in the category Embellish It - adding decoration to an existing item.

She says:

This entry falls under the category "Embellish it". Nathanael had gone through two previous shields, and I avoided anything fancy on this third one in case it met a quick end like the others. However, as the improved construction and quality of material appeared to be holding up, I decided that the pentathalon entry was a good excuse to get it looking flash. The design is my own: a white stag done in an approximation of the Mammen style (with some deviations to ensure that it was obvious to the viewer that it is a stag and not a generic knotwork beast). Modern paints.