Embellishing

Woopdeedoop! I've had a lovely day! I think DH thought I'd earned a day to myself so he's been making me cups of tea and butties and I've been playing on the embellisher! Yay! I had a shock yesterday when I was told my star swap at MixedMediaATC_UK is due on Tuesday so I thought I'd better set to.

First of all I combined carded wool, chiffon, net curtain, silver mesh fabric, angelina and mulberry bark on kunin felt and embellished it from both sides.

The first photo is a better indication of the actual whiteness of the piece and I will be cutting stars out of this to affix to the background postcard.

I then started on the background for which I decided to use a piece of kunin felt with glitter already on it. I remembered at this point that I should really be taking pics of the work in progress!

This is the starting point. I layered chiffon, organza, angelina and coloured scrim under wool and laid a piece of net over this to hold everything in place while I embellished it. The net was amazing! It made the whole process much easier as nothing caught on the foot and nothing fell off!

The next step was to continue the scrims, chiffons, organza etc together with fancy yarns over the entire surface and embellish through net.

Once all the fibres were anchored I removed the net and carried on blending the fibres and also embellished some silk scarf from the back. This photograph is not really giving an accurate picture as the resulting piece is much darker in colour and is lovely and sparkly. The overall tone is actually much more black than blue.

Now I have to cut out some stars and stitch or embellish them to the background.

After this I decided to have a play with the luscious pink wool that I bought from HollyEQQ last week.

I used a piece of cheap felt that came from a child's play pack from Wilkinson's and was surprised that it worked all right with the embellisher. So far I've used Cherry Hotlips and Lady Slipper wool, scrim, organza, chiffon, pink angelina, all held in place by a sheet of net and embellished all over in both directions to get rid of any obvious lines of hole marks.

After pulling away the net (which is now looking the worse for wear!) I am really pleased with the surface that's developing. I want it to be hot and zingy and it's certainly heading that way. I shall be adding some more wool to the surface as I want it to have a richness to the feel of it.

I also spent time in my painting studio this afternoon working on some mixed media for the rest of the stars swap. So altogether I've had a great day! (Must have been the 10 hours I slept last night! lol)