Chasing after the wind

The embroidery for my Assassin’s Creed II outfit has defeated me. I had planned to hand embroider the 18 cabbage and phoenix motifs as well as hand-couching the border trim.

Eight months after beginning the embroidery I had two and a half motifs done. As well as taking far too long, this embroidery wasn’t fun and the end result didn’t look much good. I decided it wasn’t worth the time and effort to make something I wasn’t going to be happy with.

I am going to paint the motifs on instead. I will cut stencils out of overhead transparencies and use white paint. These should be done very soon; indeed they're drying as I type.

I held on to my plan to couch the border trim for a bit longer, but again after getting a little done I found it didn’t have the affect I wanted.

I made a trip to Lincraft and came home with matching gold and silver braids.

I also needed a gold and black braid but one couldn’t be found so I bought a gold braid and some black crochet thread and threaded the black through by hand.

By the end of the day I had got three skirt pieces trimmed. It was so lovely to finally start making swift progress on this outfit.

I have also finished fraying the seam allowances under the red trim on the outer layer which means everything can start being sewn together.

Progress, progress, progress.

Assassin’s Creed belongs to Ubisoft.