I put the final french knot into my huge piece for the Victorian Box Project two days ago and after nearly 15 months, it was a fabulous feeling!
I stabilised the back before I sent to bed so it could dry overnight and the next morning got the box out ready to attach the stitching. So excited! I laid it over the top of the box and stretched it over the sides and that was then I discovered that it had shrunk somewhere and wasn’t going to fit. Fortunately I have some leeway around the edges, but it’s back to the drawing board for the moment.
So to cheer myself up I picked up the brown and gold sea glass watch case pendant I showed a couple of posts ago.
I love those tiny nuggets of very rare yellow sea glass I picked up at Seaham and the colours work perfectly with the watch case.
I’ve also started a real upcycled piece, creating something from nothing. I started with an offcut of some hand made felt I was cutting up for another project and a piece of bent gold coloured wire that came out of a job lot of broken jewellery. Trimming the felt slightly I evened up the shape and attached the wire with straight stitches in fine silk thread. The longer stitches were topped with french knots – what else! – in a heavier mercerised cotton and I used the same thread for running stitch around the edge.
I attached a pelmet vilene backing with beaded blanket stitch…
…and an odd link I took off a vintage rolled gold watch strap yesterday will make the perfect bale to turn it into a pendant.
So glad you are able to put it down to compose yourself before making the changes. You will come back to it relaxed and ready to make it how you want. Rushing is never a good thing. I cannot wait to see it affixed to the box.
That pendant is a great success, especially for something genuinely created out of next to nothing!
The pendant is beautiful!!! Perhaps you could make a fabric edging and attach it to your beautiful piece.
All three projects are beautifully worked! It’s been great watching the progress of your box cover …. it’s so pretty! I’m looking forward to seeing it attached to the box! You do have some wonderful ideas! I love the feather stitch and sea glass on the watch case, and those pink beads really frame the pendant so well!
Barbara x