What's The Use of Wings

Well, new project started this week - butterfly one's all handed in and now we're onto our 'Work Related Learning' one. We get to pick everything about it which is quite exciting. I'm basing mine on the song 'What's the use of wings' by Brian Bedford (and I've even got a link to Mr Vin Garbutt singing it if you click the link cos he's ace and I've learnt how to put links in now lol) so there's gonna be a lot of sad animals in cages. I've only done a moodboard so far and here it is...

Miles better than my other ones I reckon :)

Let it snooooow

Phew, handed in all my butterfly stuff and getting up to date with lecture based things - any tips on setting up a business or writing an essay on Nazi propaganda?
At least the snow came after I'd handed everything in and college didn't have to close, and it's made behind our house look pretty and when I woke up the other morning the sun was just rising and looked even prettier...

No rest for the wicked though, got to start my next project soon - Caged Things based on the song 'Whats The Use of Wings' by Brian Bedford.

Christmas and College

Well, I hope you all had a very merry christmas, I know I did...

Sadly after the excitment of lots of beautiful threads it's back to getting up before the sun does and getting home after its set. It has been quite exciting though, it's nearly deadline and I'm nearly done:

(Box lid)

Are you as excited as I am :)

Little bit closer...

I was talking with my tutors and have decided to make my collar a little differently, I'm gonna buy a vintage collar and put my butterflies on that so it'll look a little bit like this...

Pretend Butterflies

Well, had a very busy few days of sewing, sewing and more sewing and I've made quite a few butterflies for you to see...

It's not finished or even close but thought you'd like a peek in my head of what it'll look like :)

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me...

Fiiiive Roooo-oooo-biiiins! (that bit must be read like you'd sing 'five gold rings') I probably should've waited a few days untill it was the 5th but I was too excited.

I've been sewing away at Christmas things now it's getting close to Christmas and I've been making little robin baubles for christmas trees and thought I'd share them with you :)

Camberwell Beauty

Had a very exciting friday, I made a pretendy neckpiece base for practice. I used plain cotton for the top and layered chiffon over plain cotton for the collar. That bit didn't work quite as well as I'd hoped, mainly cos I'd been ignoring the fact that chiffon was quite so see-through so its ended up with a big hem so I'm gonna try overlocking and, fingers crossed, that'll work better.

Then I sewed and sewed and sewed and made some beautiful Camberwell Beauty Butterflies...

This one is is organza with free motion machine embroidery

This is a photocopy on acetate that I machine embroidered the detail on.

 

I loooove the organza one, I was so excited I didn't wnt to look at it while I was sewing the bottom wings on which I think is why it went a bit wonkey lol. The thing is though, because the fabric is so light and the embroidery is so heavy, the wings just fall. I think that when I've gont a lot together I'll be able to put a little stitch between the wings and that'll sort it.

The acetate one actually worked a lot better than I thought it would which was quite a nice suprise. I might put the occasional acetate butterfly on to keep the wings upright.