The quilting was a bit of work. I can only work for 10 to 20 minutes at a time and then rest for 30 minutes. It is slow making things but I am persistent! The psychologist was insistent that I work on projects because creativity was necessary for balancing brain chemicals. Or she thought so anyway. Today I got the paperwork declaring me permanently disabled. It usually takes 2 years and several appeals. It only took them 5 months to decide on my case. My private disability insurance only took 11 days to decide. I'm thankful but I keep hoping that it is all a dream and I'll wake up and be better and able to do things again! I am thankful that I can still do somethings. And that I have Lee to help me. Enough wallowing, back to crafting.
The leaf body had some problems. The fabric I used raveled and the seams were to small. I will have to redo the leaf body but I will find something to do with this one. So early this morning I played with pieces of lace to hide the body and ceramic joins. I took pictures to show some of the ideas I came up with.
Arms and head joined to leaf body.
This piece of lace was made by me practising bobbin lace.
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This is a lace insert I purchased at the dollar
store. It was dyed using a blue fabric paint .
store. It was dyed using a blue fabric paint .
Back of pincushion with lace wrapped like a shawl.
Another view of insert.
Yet another view. Reminds me of Time lords.
Small triangular lace edging.
Small triangular lace edging wrapped like a crown.
Small triangular lace edging as a collar.
Leaf shaped lace edge.
Another view of leaf lace edge.
Even more like a Time Lord!
Another piece of dollar a yard lace.
Back view of dollar a yard lace.
Lovely lace edge.
Lace edge as crown.
Piece of lace I bought today. It is netted lace
with a design that looks like french knots.
with a design that looks like french knots.
French knot lace used as a sleeve.
It was fun wrapping the wood elf in different pieces of lace. I like the pincushion even if it is a bit out of the ordinary. I made the sleeves out of the netted lace and they came out perfect. Now to decide how to dress her. I am thinking of something simple and then decorate with a few seed beads and a bug bead.
I also bought some sewing thread in three shades of blue and a black spool. Those I will use to embroider the stumpwork butterfly again. One thread of floss was just to thick to get the shading I wanted. But that is for yet another pincushion! We will see what I can come up with tomorrow!
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