Hiya Claireliz here with this weekend's workout.
The challenge is to use some lace.
I love using lace on all kinds of projects, mini books, scrapbook pages, altered items & sewing projects. I decided for this challenge to create something from fabric, so I had a go at making a brooch, but it was larger than planned so I changed into into a fascinator. First I took a strip of lace & hand stitched running stitch along one edge & ruffled it around so it started to form a circle...
keep on stitching until you end up with a flower shape like this...
I did the same again with a strip of navy blue net which I folded in half lengthways...
& with a cream strip of net which was also folded in half lengthways...
The cream net is the largest piece so I took a circle of felt & stitched it to the back of the cream net flower...
Then I added the next 2 layers, one at a time with just a few stitches to catch them into place (with the felt on what would be the underside of the fascinator) so that it looks like this...
I then stitched in a few glass pearl beads...
On the underside where the felt is I stitched 2 hair grips...
and taadaa...
This was my first attempt at making fascinators & I suspect I may be making more, infact thinking about it this will co-ordinate with my outfit for my friends wedding next week.
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Dolly here with a little snippet of lace too.
One of the things I love to use lace on is a heritage page or project and I have a heritage page to share which seems to show what I mean.
The page is of my husband's grandmother and great grandmother and actually his great grandfather too as he is in the photo that the little girl is holding up.
The strip of lace just softened the page a little and added to a heritage feel.
You know me - I like to do things digitally too, and digital lace adds feeling just like real lace.
I wanted a really soft shabby chic feel to this page and the lace helped create that.
and finally, an example of using some lovely cotton lace to make something pretty and feminine and just a whole lot of fun.
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Hello, Eleanor here. Like Dolly, I too have used my lace on a notebook, only mine is somewhat tattier.
It's a music notebook, as any musicians may guess by the title :) for my notes about songs, lyrics, and piano pieces, and details of sheet music I want to buy. I think I will even use Kel's excellent tutorial for 'tipping in' extra pages, using manuscript paper so that I can jot down a tune, or even compose one, lol.
Anyway, here it is, chipboard covers, modpodge base, half of a vintage lace-trimmed hankie on the right, and strips of cotton lace on the left, chippie letters and metal charms. All sponged lightly over with white gesso, and finally, when dry, sprayed with a mist of watered copper acrylic ink.
a closer look:
xx
