17 Jan
I had an engagement party to attend last night. Charcoal grey dress + cobalt blue shrug = no matching jewellery. So I quickly raided the stash and made some blue bird inspired pieces which matched the colour of the shrug perfectly.
I didn’t really ‘make’ the necklace. Just joined a few bits and pieces together.
Memory wire, cobalt coloured glass beads, some silver beads, a few charms and voila!
20 Sep
I finished the New England inspired necklace today made from beads I bought in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I was going to add coloured beads to it to remind me of the wildflowers, but in the end I liked it better just green, which is still very reminicent of the NE we saw last month.
While I was at it, I whipped up a few other pieces too:
A shop bought peacock pendant with tumbled adventurine and green jasper beads.
A charm bracelet with bird and key charms and yellow galss beads.
1 Sep
Project: Wildflower inspired necklace
Started: 1st September 2009
Expected completion: 1 week
Descprition:
During out recent trip to the USA, I was completely besotted with two things 1. all of the beautiful wildflowers occupying every field we seemed to pass 2. how green and lush everything was despite it being summer. I bought some beads while in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and decided to make a New England inspired necklace once I arrive home.
A redheaded lass called Ren, located in Melbourne, Australia. Likes to make, cook and grow things.
A few weeks back I enthusiastically signed up for Pip of Meet me at Mike’s Granny a Day 2010. It’s taken me a little while to get started and there’s been a lot of pulling apart failed first attempts, but today it finally clicked and I made my first ever square! It’s wonky and my [...]
I spent some of this afternoon sitting in a sunny spot in the lounge room finishing the last of this quilt;
I really enjoyed working on this and it will be sad (in a good way) to see it head off to it’s new owner – a sweet little 18 month old by the name of [...]
Today we’re going to make a doily garland. It’s essentially a string of doily’s and paper circles sewn together.
You need:
1 packet of paper doilys. My garland used 32 (plus one extra for your circle template)
Christmas themed paper
circle template – cut the centre circle from your spare doily.
scissors
sewing machine, thread
1. Using your circle template (the centre [...]
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