underatopazsky posted: " At the end of my two days at the Artisan Market at The Collection two weeks ago, my lovely neighbour, Lisa, gave me a couple of pieces of hand made felt she had left over from some wet felted vessels, in case I could do anything with them. I cert" Under A Topaz Sky
At the end of my two days at the Artisan Market at The Collection two weeks ago, my lovely neighbour, Lisa, gave me a couple of pieces of hand made felt she had left over from some wet felted vessels, in case I could do anything with them.
I certainly could! I decided to cut the pink piece into a front and back for a mandala brooch and the larger more orangey piece into an abstract shape for a barrette.
I used a variety of oddments for the mandala brooch, starting with a vintage bead cap and bead in the centre of a brass connector from a broken necklace. I added a second round with some more vintage bead caps, seed beads and some little springs which I salvaged from broken earhooks.
I did wonder whether to add a further round but I wanted to show off the felt rather than obscure it, so I stopped there and joined the front to the back (adding a circle of pelmet vilene inside for strength) with a simple beaded blanket stitch.
I've not had chance to do anything further with the barrette but I'm thinking of doing couching with some decorative chains... Another fun collaboration and I have a decent sized scrap left over which I can use for other things and some trimmings which I'll wet felt into some dreadlocks. Nothing goes to waste.
I stitched the ring of leaves for another cauliflower in the block of three I'm planning for the stumpwork garden and while I was doing that I decided to take the French knots out of the one I'd already done. They were not only too white, but more importantly, too flat and even. I need to find a more suitable weight thread to stitch them back in.
And as you can see from the bottom left hand corner of the photo above, I've started fuzzing up my carrot tops.
It takes quite a while to carefully undo the twist of the coton a broder threads, so I'll be saving that job for the next long committee meeting!
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