Over half way now...

Got my leaf bit finished! How exciting, I'm more than half way finished now which makes it even more exciting.
























Layered with the feathers too...

























Next week is flower week, this will get finished!

#feather #leaves #neckpiece #embroidery

Lots of Leaves!

Fiiiiiiinallly finished embroidering all my leaves! It took me days and got a few funny looks from the other people at bingo when I was sat there with all my leaves but they're almost ready to be sewn together tomorrow, just got my water soluble ones drying...
























#leaves #handembroidery #machineembroidery #bingo

More rings

Been a busy day! Embroidered what feels like a million leaves and still have some to finish. I'll show you the pics when it's all done but you'll just have to wait for now...
I do, however, have pics from my jewellery class where I was class swot and made 2 rings...

There's not actually a lot of difference in size but the smaller one will fit on my ring finger quite nicely whereas the bigger one is miles too big for even my thumb!

#sewing #leaves #rings #jewellery

Feathers

I finished my feather bit!




























#feather #embroidery #necklace #peacock

The One Ring...

Had another fun jewellery making lesson the other day, we made rings...


I shut my self up in the print room all day today for a feather day but I got a bit excited and did some leaves and flowers too...

I had to use Helens desk though, mine was a bit of a mess

 #ring #printing #feathers #flowers #leaves

Shoulders (knees and toes, knees and toes...)

Remember all those beautiful flowers I made yesterday?  I sewed them all onto a little shoulder shape I made and can start making my final one now!

Then I decided to be a good friend and help one of the girls dye a dress for Hallowe'en (we're dead Hollywood stars, Marylin Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Rita Hayworth!) but it was polyester so wouldn't dye, we did mention this to her. I think I need new gloves for when I dye, mine don't seem to be doing so well...

(The flash took a lot of the mouldy/dead look out of my fingers, they looked like when Dumbledore had put on the cursed Horcrux ring!)

#flowers #neckpiece #Halloween #Hollywood #dye #harrypotter

Flower Power!

Had a fun day making flowers. I dont want to jinx anything but it all actually worked, my pull throughs didn't run everywhere, my dyes all turned out nice colours and making the flowers didn't make me want to cry!

This is my blue jay flower, just made from cotton, I was supposed to embroider the black on but I  got too excited and was half way through sewing it together when I remembered!

Silk Fuchsia, it needs its stamens etc cos it does look like it's missing something

 Organza butterfly flower, possibly my favourite! (yes that is a roll of double sided sticky tape holding it in place, it kept falling over haha)

 Silk peacock flower, this just needs shaping a bit better

#silk #organza #cotton #butterfly #flower #fuchsia #dyeing #printing