samples

I have had a strange week, and couldn't seem to catch up with myself, in the end I just deleted a whole host of e-mails and my backlog on Google reader, as much as I love the Internet it gets a bit overwhelming sometimes.

I loaded these samples a week ago and forgot to post, and to end the week with a bang I slipped on a wet floor and fell full force onto my knees, not funny at my weight. Ouch.
I kept an ice pack on the painful bits all day yesterday so I am not too bad today.

I am very behind in my lessons on Dales Embellisher course, but I have printed them all off and bound them together for future reference. I will work through them all at a later date, below is a sample on bronze taffeta with voile and silks all the same tone,



Silk strips for this one, but I think my strips were too wide and it ended up like a Ra Ra skirt ( remember them, not that I was young enough to wear them at the time ) so I embellished across the rows and it calmed it down a bit



I also spent a long time waiting for Walnut ink to dry :)

Book

Remember the brown paper and bandage scrim sample I made a couple of weeks ago, the one I wasn't going to do any thing with !!!
Well I decided it wanted to be a book and so I tore the excess paper from around the scrim.

I then coloured the back much the same as the front, and used an A1 size watercolour paper to create the pages, I used a simple Pamphlet stitch.

I then made a machine wrapped cord, using a jade silk thread on the first two layers, and the last layer Madeira's FS Metallic thread.

Once wrapped around the book, I felt the cord was a bit too glitzy, so I have dunked it in some walnut ink, this will hopefully knock it back, as soon as it is dry I will post a picture