VPC2017: Lady Melissa’s Belt With Bone Buckle and Strap End

This belt is an entry from Lady Melissa – she started the project before BA, but this is acceptable for the category Remake, Reuse, Refashion, Reconsider (and it also fits in Show Us Your Arms). I believe this makes Lady Melissa’s fifth project, making her the second person to finish the five projects aspect of the Pentathlon, and earning her a prize to be awarded at a future event.

She says:
I started this project before BA, but it was sitting unfinished due to a number of challenges regarding safely riveting through bone and obtaining a suitable leather (which needed to be blue, as it was for Nathanael, whose device is a white stag on a blue field). I have finished it for the pentathlon challenge!This is a belt with a bone buckle and strap end. The buckle was carved out of cow bone, and the strap end is carved out of sheep bone. The strap is commercially veg-tanned blue leather. The buckle is loosely based on the Borre belt buckle, which features two wolves rather than two deer. The strap end is based on a Jelling-style dragon strap end, modified to represent a stag instead. The belt is slightly less than 2cm wide.

PC2017: Lord Nathanael and Lady Melissa’s Naalbound Jumper

This is another joint entry from Lady Melissa and Lord Nathanael. It is intended for the categories Back To Basics, Counting On Sheep, String Theory and Cover Me!

Lady Melissa writes:
It is a woolen naalbound jumper, constructed using the Oslo stitch. The yarn was spun by Melissa, who also washed and carded the fleeces–both colours are the natural colour of the sheep. Nathanael did the naalbinding. We had to work to keep up with each other, a speed project that took about a month! Because it was worked with doubled yarn, it is very warm!

VPC 2017: Mistress Taddea’s Skjoldehamn Hood

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.

A plain shield
A glorious one