Sunday, September 16, 2012

Favors for Queen Thyra

A short time ago, the design for Queen Thyra's favors was published and I decided to make four to send along. 

The basic design is a T with an ivy leaf on the end.  The directions say that we can use some artistic license  with the pieces and that we can, instead of using the single leaf at the end, wrap the T in an ivy leaf.  I opted to do two of each.

The two ivy vine pieces were pretty straightforward.  I filled one in entirely with a stem stitch and did French knots on the other one.  Queen Thyra's personal arms have three lozenges on them, so on the ones without vines, I opted to put three lozenges in the thick part of the T.  One of them is done with silver thread, the other is outlined with silver beads and has some bead-work in the middle section.  They aren't the fanciest favors she'll probably receive, but hopefully they will respectably convey her favor to whomever she deems worthy.

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