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Thursday, November 10, 2022

Pink Jacobean box

 No I haven't a better name for it right now.


And as usual I forgot to take pictures until I was mostly done


so here's a picture of the back!


I used a pink silk satin scrap from my stash 

which should have been bigger but whateves

we'll figure out the how when were done right?

So the jumping off point were a bundle of specialty threads

in greens and oranges that caught my eye which have been languishing in my stash for eVer

It's a skein of multiple kinds of silk thread called Oliver twists one offs by Jean oliver

Which I supplemented with PatinaRG brand rayon cording,

some random Chinese silk cording and  watercolors by Caron, Threadworks, DMC etc. bits and peices


I then covered a cigar box with paper inside and most of a fat 1/4 outside

and some cute washitape to finish the ratty ends


And as you probably guessed my scrap was too small so I had to add a 2" border of the bottom fabric around it to get it to fit

after mounting it on a backer board, a piece of card board cut to fit the top, I noticed that the edges were wonky!


Aghhhh!


A bit of 1/4" Velvet ribbon to the rescue!

I hand sewed that around the wonkiness to hide the transition from silk to cotton because it was really, really wobbly!


I got it as straight as I could but you will notice


once I point it out.........o0



That when you look at it straight on it 

bows out in the middle

Which goes to demonstrate, if you stand back far enough no one will notice!

Except you


Because you are your worst critic!


Stop that! 


It's beautiful!



And done!

Oh, yes, there are a few beads thrown on there for sparkly


You knew I couldn't get away without a bit of  added pop right?


It's not worth doing unless it unnecessarily complicated

and fussy


I might be getting the hang of this

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