The Cape Stitcher

"Divorced, beheaded, died.  Divorced, beheaded, survived."  This little chant helps tweak the memory as to the fates of Henry V...

Henry VIII's fifth wife, Kathryn Howard, is finished! To create her fur stole, I first stitched the area in basketweave with some ...

Kathryn's dress is completed, worked in a Nobuko stitch with four strands of DMC floss #434.  Only her fur stole and jewelry remain t...

The yoke on Kathryn Howard's dress, as it appears in the Holbein painting, is quite raised and distinctive.  To convey that look, I b...

Those were the glowing words Henry VIII spoke in reference to his new, fifth wife, Kathryn Howard.  The king had been wifeless for three ...

Before the holidays, I started working on a little baby gift for a friend's new grandchild--a 3-D block that spelled out "Baby...

Jane Seymour's overdress is now finished and, like her underskirt, is a pretty close color match to the Holbein portrait. This area...