It has taken me quite a while to get these finished... . I've been otherwise engaged all over the place doing lots of fun things like the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and travelling down to Birmingham to see my sister and nieces and going to the Festival of Quilts. The Festival of Quilts was quite an event (I had never been before) - and although I am not a quilter we had a wonderful day drooling over all the stalls and getting lots of inspiration. The highlight of the day though was actually getting to meet lovely Myfanwy of Sassalynne in person and to see (and buy!) a collection of her wonderful supplies 'in the flesh'. Over the course of the day I bought lots of exciting and inspiring supplies, and discovered new sellers like 21st Century Yarns, which was great too.
Anyway, back to Sunburst and Vortex - these are prototype necklaces, the first two end results of my Sassalynne viscose felt project.
'Vortex'
I haven't done any felting myself this time - the colours of the felt were so lovely I didn't want to cover them up by adding any more fibre. Instead I just beaded and embroidered onto the surface, and experimented with a more 'ethnic' feel with dangly (not sure how else to describe them!) additions at the bottom of the felt piece and on the chain.
Glass beads and tiny sequins, with seed stitch in ribbon and cotton.
'Sunburst'
Glass beads, and seed and running stitches in gold thread.
The addition of the metal drops is a bit of a departure for me - the idea arose from wanting to try to incorporate a bit of movement into a necklace.
3 comments:
Glad you enjoyed FOQ...
...and why shouldn't we buy ourselves some lovely bits now and again (and again and again :-))))
Love the new creations too!
I enjoyed our meeting too. Glad you enjoyed the show. Lovely to see some of your work in person too.
Thank you, both of you!
Kate x
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