Quilted wine bag

Not only do I want this blog to be a journal of my progress in the A&S 50 challenge, but I also want to keep track here of the other projects I am involved in. Recently I was volunteered to be part of a project to give other kingdoms in the SCA gifts from The East Kingdom. We made wine bags with the heraldry of the recipient kingdom on them.
I chose to do my design in padded work, or in this case quilting. I saw a series of pictures on line from the Victoria and Albert museum showing a quilted Sicilian bedspread from around 1400.

The pattern on that was The story of Tristan. The quilting was done on a plain colored background with colored thread outlining the figures. The background is then filled in with plain white thread random stitching. The stitching is not really all that random. It mainly appears to be in lines. http://www.flickr.com/photos/medievalandrenaissance/
This was my first attempt to quilt something like this, and I was fairly happy with the way it came out.
I am also working towards getting a competency ranking in all the categories in the Athena's Thimble, the embroidery guild for the East Kingdom. They have 12 categories for embroidery. At the time I took on the Wine bag project, I was missing a padded work piece. Therefore, I chose this style to both finish the project in an unusual manner and finish a piece for the Thimble. I would eventually like to make period competency in all the categories, but for now I just have to finish one piece in them all. http://www.athenasthimble.com/
At this point I only have to finish a pleated work, and a lacis piece. I have been having so much fun doing all the different kinds of embroidery. I am really excited by finding Athena's Thimble, and getting to participate. The handkerchief I posted a couple days ago qualified for drawn-work, and needle lace. I may post some pictures of some of the earlier projects which qualified for other categories assuming I still have the items.