With chains, split rings and metal ornaments it’s quite fast to make a piece of jewellery. This necklace came out of an afternoons work. A friend asked me for a necklace and this was my first suggestion.
Clockwork Fan
I don’t remember the date I was infected with steampunk fever. But one of the first symptoms aka projects started would take ages to be finished:
The Clockwork Fan
A Steampunk’s Guide to: Sofia [part two]
Vestigo. A secret society dedicated to technological progress but little more than a rumour. A dark hallway, an apartment stuffed with peculiar equipment. The bureau of a tinkerer. Books, technical drawings, a map of the world and behind you the door click shut silently.
A Steampunk's Guide to: Sofia [part one]
For the unprepared traveler on a business trip the Bulgarian capital will be a surprise with it’s rich history and the mixture of orient and occident. From most of the city snow covered mount Vitosha is attracting the eyes. But what is Sofia holding ready for a Steampunk?
Lace bookmark
My grandma got this tatted bookmark for Mother’s Day. The pattern was inspired by an edging from the book “Tatting Craft, My Book No. 3” (1900) by Anna Valerie. But it only the resembles the shape. i added several links and made it bicolored.
Occhi revers
Maybe you already wondered what tatting is good for. Well except from doilys and edgings here is an example:
I decorated the revers of my “old” bolero jacket with sewn-on tatted lace.
The big one with a bead I tatted on the needle. But when I tried to needle tat the small cloverlike piece I wasn’t able to close the last ring. So I switched to the shuttle and it worked quite good after I sorted all the threads.
Acorns for your ears
These cute little earrings were the result of my first try to integrate beads into tatting. Actually my initial plan didn’t work out but I like the result anyway.
They look like little acorns, don’t they?
Tatted triskelion
This was one of my first tries on tatting. Actually I wanted to recreate the pendant of this bookmark. But as you can see it turned out to be a triangle. Seems I miscalculated it dramatically.
The not-at-all-rectangluar angle I recognized at the second corner. That was when I decided to insert the triskelion in the middle.
For the second on in orange I left some knots to smoothen the edges.
Baroqu 2.0
The Baroqu earrings have been my first tutorial written and beading class given. But I soon saw the flaws and complication with the design and pattern. So back to beading.
This is what I came up with. I left off the Picot at the downside and changed the order of steps which makes the design easier to understand and also serves the stability.
Material for one pair of earrings:
1g 15° rocailles
3g 11° rocailles
30 bicones 6mm
50 bicones 4mm
2 fire-polished rounds 4mm (or bicones 4mm)
2 split rings, ear hooks, Fireline
Blommers
These were the first winners of my UfO raffle: Bloomers I started during my diploma thesis - back in 2011. At this time I didn’t have a sewing machine and hand-stitching all these seams for the cuffs let me loose motivation soon.
But now with the new/old sewing machine they were finished at three evenings. The pattern is called “Madeleine”; a free pattern from Colette Patterns. I extended the length of the leg so they end shortly above the knee.
UfO-Tombola
When you’re thinking of a flying saucer you might be disappointed. I will talk about something everyone know and experienced by themselves: Unfinished objects.
Especially in a creative household they are countless: half-sewn wests, bundles of beads and fireline, undone paperwork, half-written blog posts to name only a few. I try to store such project in sight which leads to a messy room and I have to clean around these UfOs.
Beginning of November I had enough and started the UfO raffle, a glass full with all these projects started or unloved (like paperwork). As there’s time I select two UfO and which of them can mobilize more motivation will be started. If I can’t complete it the UfO goes back into the raffle.
But as I finish I tear up the paper the UfO’s name was written on in a festive ceremony and put it in another glass with “projects”. These glass is full of ideas for upcoming large-scale projects. And if I’ve finished two UfO I’m allowed to start one of these new projects.
The first results of my UfO raffle you’ll see on this blog soon.
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