Ever since the extremely hot and extremely dry Castlefest edition of 2018 I've had a bandana as part of Tessiël 's kit. Turns out that a wet bandana around your head really helps with keeping you a bit cooler...
It's a fairly simple thing, just a square of green muslin but it does it's job well... however as I've been steadily updating and upgrading Tessiël's stuff through the years it was starting to look a bit out of place. Then a couple of months back I also stumbled over @vincentbriggs 's leaf headkerchief tutorial and I knew I needed to make one for Tessiël.
Birches are my favourite trees so I immediately knew it had to be based on a birch leaf
It didn't make my life any easier since it turns out that sewing and later topstitching all those teeny-tiny teeth does take a lot of effort...
And that's not even taking into account all the tiny points and angles that need to be trimmed and then carefully turned out.
The end result of this all didn't turn out as neat as the ones Vincent shows in his tutorial but it is serviceable enough and after slipstitching the facing I set out to the part I was looking forward to the most aka painting the damn thing.
I first painted the veins in light green, and since I was a bit messy, I added some green spatters to hide the fact I had stained the fabric with the paint on my hand.... after concluding that it also needed a bit of extra oomph, I lastly overpainted the main veins with some silver paint, providing at the same time an echo to the vambraces and shinguards I had made two years ago which are also green with silver veins...
Then it was a matter of letting it all dry and a quick press of the iron to set the textile paint
And voilà! A brand new banging headkerchief for Tessiël. Now the only question will be how it will stand up to being repeatedly wetted and wrung out if this year's Castlefest turns out to be a hot edition again.
PS: @vincentbriggs Many, many thanks for your amazing tutorial!!!
