Imperfectly Period

Instead of trying to source and work with metallic threads, I used spangles since I have a giant bag of them.  They've ended up all over my house.  Truly, they're pre-modern glitter. Obviously the leaves are not very consistent, but I figure there are enough of them and the glitter of the spangles really catch one's eye in the light that no one will notice. Currently on the third row so this picture's a little while ago.  I normally don't time my projects because that's just depressing, but I average one repeat in an afternoon. 

Several months ago while my sewing machine was in the shop, I got the wild hair to hand sew a set of bodies based on the extant effigy pair. A friend draped some cotton muslin around me and I used that to sketch out pattern pieces based on the ones in The Tudor Tailor . I used the pieces to cut out some remnant linen and some cotton canvas given to me by the same friend who did the draping.  Even though I had canvas at home and had thought of getting linen canvas, I have problems saying no.  It raveled if you even looked at it funny, so I added a line of straight stitching along any unbound edges on top of herringbone stitching. Months of stitching 1/4" wide boning channels with linen thread and watching Modern Maker videos on YouTube taught me a lot about hand sewing even though I've been doing it since elementary school.  Double lines of stitching might have been overkill, though.  The contrasting colour might make any mistakes or sloppiness...