A couple of weeks ago I gave you a little peek at my latest brooches. Well, I did a little more sewing last night and a few are well on there way...
Some are needle felted with beautiful hand spun wool and others are decorated with sari silk. I love working with the sari silk waste but it is a bit of a pain to sew as it unwinds really easily. I wrap the thread in coloured wire before stitching the spiral onto the felt flowers. It is very time consuming but they look stunning in the end.
I still have to sew beads onto this one's centre.
Project 2.
I have to thank Liz at That Fuzzy Feeling for the tutorial on her blog which I used for my next project. Liz makes the most beautiful needle felted bowls and I was inspired to have a go. Wow, it was hard work! I was so engrossed I forgot to take pics as I was going along, which is probably just as well as it was a mess! In the end I have something respectable, if a little wonky but fortunately felt is very forgiving.
Becky x
Becky, I love those brooches and wow, that's a really pretty bowl. So pleased that you found my tutorial useful :) They do take a long time, don't they - my partner says that sometimes he feels like a needle felting widower! Liz x
ReplyDeleteYour brooches are really colourful Becky, love the sari silk - pity I'm not a sewer (thats sew-er not a waste pipe!) but then maybe a good thing as I'd be flitting onto something else! Your needlefelted bowl is fab too...it looks so smooth and chunky in a felty sort of way! ;-)
ReplyDelete