Shisha Mirrors

[zed]

I recently used Shisha mirrors on my hairy alpaca bag and had some questions about them.

I found a tutorial for how to sew around them to make your own.

www.joyfulabode.com/2008/02/12/tutorial-indian-shisha-mirror-embroidery/

I tried it out and it worked well. On step 8, I didn't sew into my back stitch, but it kind of overlapped the previous one.

[pamd]

Wow, now that was an interesting method. Thanks for sharing!

[jufergu]

Well, I have done the embroidery around the small drapery rings, but never saw this before. I am printing it off. What a great idea. Hope I can follow the directions.

[Shepherdess]

very cool.

[zed]

thanks
Judy, it took me a few minutes to realise I was meant to be looping my thread around my back stitch, or should that be, when the stitch came back to the front it went through the thread? I wish I knew stitching terminology to describe things

[karen]

Oh thats fantastic Zed, thanks for that, i was always wondering how you could include things like coins in your felt so now i'm going to try this

[zed]

I tried a fimo piece, but it was a bit chunky and didn't look as nice, but I'll be looking for other things to use too

[lyn]

Thanks Zed, that's a really clear tutorial. I've tucked it away because I'm sure I'm going to want to have a go at that soon.

[zed]

You should Lyn, it's great

I tried it on some beach glass that was an odd shape and it still worked well

[pamd]

Hmmm, thinking about puka shells!

[MTRuth]

Really cool Zed! We are studying Indian embroidery in class. They use tons of shisha mirrors. We haven't learned how to attach them though.

[lyn]

I like the beach glass stitched in!

[zed]

Thanks
It really is easy once you get in the swing, it's just a loop over and a back stitch, loop over, back stitch etc.