Embellishments

Inspired by this charity shop find (see below) I thought I would try my hand at making my own embellishments. I have a small stash of beads etc so wil be good to use some of them up.

I first stuck some plastic gems onto felt with my glue gun, this created a problem as it was hard to sew close up where the glue had oozed out. 

This picture shows how messy the glue gets!!! I tried to trim off as much as I could without cutting the felt and sewed beads around the central gem going around twice with the thread to secure. I didn't take photos as I went so this is the final result.

Coin for sizing purposes. Now to decide how I will attach the decoration to the shrine? Glue (messy!) or cut out a neat circle and blanket stitch around. It may be too big for my purple shrine that I am making (?)

Also busy cutting out lots of circles in different colours to make roses.

Felt flowers

Hi, it's been a long time since I've posted and I am starting as I mean to go on. I am currently making love shrines out of paper mache and felt. 

This post is how I made flowers for my new shrine following a You tube video by The Flower Art

https://youtu.be/XKQD0i6ZjO4

This was the most effective way of making realistic roses that I could find after a brief search. It's lots of repeatative easy steps.

1 cut out circles, the video advises 4.5cm and 8 per flower but I neede a smaller flower so cut out 6 circles 3cm in diameter. These are then cut in half.

2. Sew the circles together overlapping each other halfway.

3. Gather the petals by pulling on the thread.

4. This results in a spiral that you roll from one end to the other like a Swiss roll and gluing as you go. I couldn't take a pcture of this as it takes two hands and can get messy!!!

Hey presto ...lovely little They have fairly flat bottoms which are perfect for gluing onto shrines.