If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, then you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of machine needlelace. I love using it for all sorts of things … Decorative elements such as the center of this sunflower; Abstract floral embellishments … Filling for cutwork designs on quilts … Embellishments such asleaves, flowers, […]
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I love to embellish using beads. I sometimes add each bead one by one … … and I sometimes add strings of beads … Regardless of which way you bead, you can’t go past a good book for learning new techniques and also for a major dose of inspiration. I have favorites books and then
Last week I finished designing a new clutch purse using fabric beads in unusual ways – for handgrips and purse feet. You can see the finished design it here. Now the same clutch purse design takes on a whole new persona. Instead of using plain fabric, this one is being designed using using one of
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Very often, making a new design for a bag is a lengthy process that requires lots of tweaking and changing things to make a design that looks good and also goes together easily, but for the last few weeks I’ve been making an extra special effort to focus more on going with my intuition when
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