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Post by Pandagirl on Jul 11, 2014 18:39:59 GMT
Cathy, the circles look great. Thanks for changing the setting!
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Post by MTRuth on Jul 11, 2014 23:34:35 GMT
Hand stitching is always great for travel!
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Post by halay on Jul 12, 2014 17:28:52 GMT
And here are some pics showing my daily dose of fibre over the last three days. "Podomannia" has taken over me but I think am throug now. All the pods were made with domestic rather coarse wool. In the yellow and brown one I used bits and pieces from old silk scarves and made two "flowers" using resist. The second one is white and blue purple where I used hand-dyed cotton gauze and some cocoons. In some places I tucked some plastic fibre under the top layer of wool to get more interesting structure With the third one I was playing with different pieces of fabric and embellishments and added some beads. For my tomorrow's challenge I've decided to make a dress for my grand daughter. Today I was calculating and drawing the template.
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Post by lyn on Jul 12, 2014 17:44:05 GMT
They are all beauties! The cut-out on no.1 and the silk additions make for a lot of interest. My fave is no.2 - the texture and colours I love. Pink, grey, black and white always look good together and I like the beading and the texture in the pink. I hope you enjoy them!
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Post by MTRuth on Jul 12, 2014 19:53:44 GMT
Nada - those are all beautiful pods. I like the embellishments and different textures. I hope you'll show us the dress you make for your granddaughter, I'd love to see it.
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Post by Pandagirl on Jul 12, 2014 20:01:41 GMT
They are all gorgeous Nada! I love your experimentation. We'd love to see your dress. Would you like to do a blog about the process?
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Post by halay on Jul 13, 2014 3:26:58 GMT
Thanks girls for your lovely comments. This dress will be my first one and I don't think I am ready to write a blog about the process because I'm not sure if it turns out OK. I'll take pictures anyway.
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Post by zed on Jul 13, 2014 10:09:25 GMT
The pods are gorgeous, Nada Good luck with the dress.
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Post by Shepherdess on Jul 14, 2014 1:46:39 GMT
Nada take lots of pictures and if it turns out and you think you would like to do a post about what you did we would love it. It doesn't have to be a how too, just about your experience. The pods are great. I really like the cut out in #1.
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Jul 14, 2014 17:29:33 GMT
great pods, and I too love the cut out bits :-)
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Post by luvswool and dyestuff on Jul 14, 2014 19:20:13 GMT
Wonderful pods--all three! Structure and embellishments are all so different. You really worked hard on these.
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Post by halay on Jul 15, 2014 8:59:06 GMT
This posting falls under my daily dose of fibre challenges: I made my first experiment with making a dress for my 6-year-old granddaughter. I did'nt want to experiment with expensive silk. Instead I got two flower printed cotton scarves (bought them very cheap) and used each for one side (the length was just enough for a girl's dress). I made a template (spent quite some time calculating, using factor 1.6) In the following photos I am showing how I first made folds of fabric on the template wetted the fabric Then I laid white merino first around the arms and neck and then just one layer all horizontally . As for embellishments I didn't want to use too muc colour since the fabric was wild enough. I used silk cocoons, silk handkerchiefs, and silk roving. Actually I wanted to make to top white. Then of course I started felting and rolling. This is the result. When my graddaughetr comes over I'll do the fitting. At the moment the dress is probably still to large for her. Taking a critical wiew at my first attempt, I think there was too much fabric whicch I folded on the upper part of the dress. If it was silk it would be OK, but cotton is thicker although I managed to felt it well. Since this experiment I've made several shawls which I'll show separately. I'm waiting for some sunshine to take photos.
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Post by lyn on Jul 15, 2014 10:38:18 GMT
It's a beautiful dress! I like the sparse embellishment put down on the white merino - it's just right. And a bargain too.
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Post by zed on Jul 15, 2014 11:18:04 GMT
Good thinking to try with cotton fabric first! You're very brave attempting this, I hope she likes it
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Post by Pandagirl on Jul 15, 2014 15:15:54 GMT
It's beautiful Nada! Even if it's it's too big now she'll grow into it. I like the fact you used the wool on the outside with simple embellishments. Please post of picture when she models it for you. :-)
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