The tatting was given to me by a friend whose mother had made the doily many years ago. I inserted a piece into the corner, and several days after that I decided it would become a fan. Decorating the fan are pink seed beads, cream pearl seed beads and pink silk ribbon woven in and out and a section of ribbon that has been gathered into little pleats. The triangle below the fan seemed perfect for another few scallops, but this time I used a shiny variegated thread for bullion roses. Faye, it will be on it's way to you tomorrow morning.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
FFT#7 - Faye's block heading home to Australia
Faye's block is stunning. The work done by Nicki Lee, Mary, Faye and Gerry is fabulous and I really had to pluck up courage to add my stitching. Round robins are educational and I found I learned a lot participating in this one. I began by marking out scallops on sage green moire and worked chain stitches in a pink and green variegated Carron wildfowers thread. I put a tiny pearl bead in each chain of the top and bottom rows, then added little daisies. Above that I used variegated silk ribbon for pink and multicoloured low flowers, blue/lilac ribbon for hollyhocks and pink and maroon for a clump of iris.
This section was the last to be done. I gathered up wide silk ribbon and made a cluster of three flowers on the peach patch.
Such beautiful additions Diane! Love how you made a fan out of the tatting. The work you all done on that block is fabulous!
ReplyDeleteYour work is absolutely beautiful! I love CQ! I want to learn Silk Ribbon Embroidery and some other things so I can do CQ! I am a tatter and I want to be able to put my tatted motifs somewhere! LOL!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE love LoVe what you did with the tatted "fan"! The beads and embellishments are just lovely! You are very talented! :)
Sincerely,
~TattingChic ♥
Diane,
ReplyDeleteThanks for being so detailed in your description of your work. It helps all of us unexperienced ones! I love the scalloped beadwork. Haven't tried that yet! Your flowers are beautiful and your fan...well just eveything! Thanks!
Thank you so much! I felt that this block was my biggest challenge so far in CQing. Last year I worked through "100 details in 200 days" which was a wonderful experience in learning stitches and building seams.
ReplyDeleteDiane, I think your pearl garland is inspired! It looks really lovely and I've saved it to my inspiration file!
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