Showing posts with label stitching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stitching. Show all posts
Some Color for a White World
The Amazing Helen at Blumenthal Lansing sent me some new embellishment packs. I made this fabric cuff bracelet for Jo-Ann fabrics. The package had buttons in three sizes and four colors, beads, and embroidery floss. All I needed to make this bracelet was a yard of grosgrain ribbon and a needle.
Stay tuned for more info on product and package when they hit the store.
Use your Vitamin C!
Jacket: Kalmbach Bead Soup
They asked bead stores around the country to donate the bead soup, and asked Lori's blog hop participants who wanted to play. Natch, I said, "pick me!" They did.
I received a nice collection of beads from Christine Ballas at Wicks & Stones in Wyandotte, MI. She sent me furnace beads, pressed glass beads, some black faceted beads, a couple short lengths of chain, and a big triangle toggle clasp. I had a lot with which to work.
My fav part of the design, is the added movement. I stitched on the triangle part of the clasp, by the loop so it hangs freely. Then I added a few bead dangles to it. They swing! You can also see the short length of chain I added at the bottom. The chain is attached only by the ends. Three small dangles of black faceted beads hang from it.
I had fun doing it, not worrying about design, just adding beads as I worked. I had forgotten about the lengths of chain in my soup. I thought I was finished and was cleaning up my work table when I found them. And it turns out the addition of one bit of chain is one of my fav parts of the design.
Thank you Lori, Kalmbach, and Wicks & Stones for all of the work that made this possible. Hope the book sells like hotcakes!
It is great to use your Vitamin C in a challenge!
fruits de l'aiguille
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