Cushion made with felt

This was a workshop I did with Madelaine Millington  www.madelainemillington.com

Using old blankets and colourful dyed felt a design was made .  Use blanket stitch in colourful wools to stitch on the felt and around edges.

Sequined Bracelet

Sequined Bracelet

Use pelmet vilene to the size you require
bondaweb on material to the vilene with enough hang over to wrap around the vilene twice.
sew a pleasing arrangement of sequins to the fabric
then turn the overhang fabric over the other side and neaten
make a loop with buttonhole stitch on one end and attach a large bead to the other.

Evening Bag

Evening Bag

This is quite an advance technique learnt at The Embroiderers Guild.

First you need two pieces of pelmet vilene the size of the bag that you need. The base and the top.  The top here is in a hexagonal shape.

On the top piece draw a design.  Next cover the opposite side with materiall using iron on sticky fabric.

next with buttonhole stitch outline your drawing using a contrast colour to the fabric on the other side. Then using hand stitching and beads decorate the open parts of the design.

Next stick on the same fabric to the body of the bag and draw tramlines.  

Make a loop and attach this to the point where the bag is to close. And make a cord for the handle and place this at the two sides of the bag body.

When the bag is fully decorated stick on some fabric to cover your backs and then buttonhole stitch around the edges.

Stitch the top to the body of the bag by hand. 

Next make a decorative button and attach.

Japenese folded bag and ribbon flower

This is a very easy quilting project.

• make a sandwich of one square of Japanese fabric, one piece of lining and very thin wadding stitch and turn
• Make a triangle, then put one corner of the triangle to the long edge one side and then the other making a folded triangle.  The flaps form the pockets.
• Make a handle and attach
• Stitch along the folded edge
• Decorate with a ribbon flower.

The ribbon flower.

Again easy

• Cut nine pieces of ribbon 4 1/2 inches long
• stitch diagonally along the narrow end, along the long side and then diagonally up the other short end.
• Pull the thread to form a petal
• When you have completed all nine get a small bit of felt and with strong glue place the petals into a pleasing flower shape
• With glue put on beads in the centre of the flower.

• Either attach to a bag or any other of your projects