The poppies harvest wreath has moved on a little further and I’m a bit happier with the balance of the flowers, given that they are pretty random.
I also, in another variation of: ‘Things I’ve Found While Looking For Other Things’ came across some Tyvek this week, which has prompted a little bit of playing (and encouraged me to clear a few bits off the ironing pile while I had the iron out!). I used water soluble oil pastels on both pieces but left one as it was and added water to blend the other to see if there was any difference once I added heat.
In the end there was no difference in the way they behaved apart from the unblended one leaving smudges of oil pastel all over the baking parchment. Probably should have seen that one coming…
I preferred the way the bottom one crinkled up but thought the top one would be easier to stitch into – and it happens to be my comfort zone colours too. So I chose a section to experiment with:
The colours reminded me of some tiny offcuts I couldn’t bear to throw away from the felt I used here:
I thought they would work well with the colours of the Tyvek and provide a textural contrast. A scrap of viscose tubular ribbon ruched and held down with French knots gave me a starting point.
The larger scrap of felt was stitched down as invisibly as I could as there was already a lot going on in it, but I used a series of fly stitches to attach the smaller piece.
I quite like how the melted Tyvek looks and I didn’t want to cover any more of it up, so I added some lines of stem stitch just to follow some of the patterns in the Tyvek and anchor it to the felt.
What I really should have been doing was getting some more pieces of upcycled jewellery made. I need to do a complete stock change from gothic/Hallowe’en to something more Christmas party/presents in Arttopia in less than a week; a stock refresh along similar lines for the Bricktree Gallery in Caistor and then I’ve realised that it’s less than two weeks until my first Christmas Fair with two more following quickly after that!
I’ve made some upcycled pendants from some odd vintage earrings, the centre of a bracelet (the silver flower) and a selection of odd beads and charms and am working on some earrings using sections of broken bracelets.
All I really need are about another 8 hours in each day…!
Under A Topaz Sky 
The pendants look sweet. I hope you do well at Artopia. It’s crazy how fast Christmas is creeping up on us. X
Thank you very much. I do too. I enjoy putting these new pieces together so much and it’s so good when they sell!!
One of the perks and incentives for tidying up! More hours in the day would be great. I wish you could buy time.
I like that as a perk of tidying up!
Me too, it meant I could find the Appleton wool in minutes this morning, and without leaving devastating behind me while frantically searching for what I need.
Really like what you’ve done with the Tyvek.
Thank you! It’s literally the first time I’ve ever tried it so it doesn’t have anywhere near the finesse of your work!
But you’ve used a different approach with embellishing the Tyvek which is great! Have you done anything with Lutradur? Its a very versatile fabric.
No, this was just a random piece I found How does it differ from Tyvek?
It can be painted, stitched and distressed just like Tyvek but I find it much more useful for what I do. Hard to describe the difference but can give you a sample to play with when we meet up next.
Oooh, thank you, that sounds great.
I think we are all in need of a few more hours in the day!
Amen to that!!