Showing posts with label silk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silk. Show all posts

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Silk purses

I found a small piece of blue-green handpainted silk, left over from an earlier project, which I used for an experiment in free-motion pintucking, making it even smaller. However, despite the small size of the final piece of fabric, I managed to make a croissant bag:



And two coin purses, with beaded zipper pulls (they look rather large compared with the croissant bag but they are about 12 cm across):





And a card:



I even have some other small pieces left over that might turn into something else eventually.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Belated birthday present

I made these cushions for my sister for her birthday and gave them to her when we met up at her daughter's wedding on the weekend - a few weeks late.


This was my first attempt with dyeing silk in the microwave and I was very pleased with the effect. I then free machined wavy lines over them.