Melted Doodles

Before I made Roots I mainly made pieces that were really squishy and quilted because they were sewn on top of wadding (batting). With this piece I decided that I wanted to make a piece that you could turn around and look at the back. I wanted it to be slim and flat - and to tell the truth, I'd probably run out of wadding to use.

This piece has net for a top layer- I normally use organza because I think it looks a lot nicer and shiny whilst net kind of looks a bit cheap. However the net looked great on this piece.

This piece originally started out as twice the width but half way through I decided it would be more fun to try to make a narrow piece. I also decided that it's better to have two pieces to experiment with rather than one large piece that you might mess up.

I used a lot of paper in this piece as well as fabric.

This is a textiles piece I made based on a story I'm working on. I guess the book is so stuck in my head that it's all I can think about.

If you're both crafty and like writing you might find that the two things help each other out. I've made objects from my "book" before to help me get past problems in the plot and writers block.

I think I'd like to work into this piece with embroidery threads - that might give it a little more "oomph".

These doodles were some of the first bags I designed.

I haven't made a bag in so long and I miss it. I'm going to have to make some more soon.

The doodles above were inspired by beads from the book "Making Beautiful Beads".

In the bag images below you can see how much I love making bobbly bags.

I found this amazing image of a mitochondria and I knew I had to make a model of it.

Originally I started trying to make a separate "wobbly" shape to go inside out of cloth- the pattern was really difficult to get right and it wasn't working.

I decided that I'd made a 3D structure instead- wrap it up in a yummy pinky, purpley textiles piece and then for the outside I'd use organza as a "thin membrane".

I love Autumn!

Below in the textiles piece you can see how much this piece developed by the time I finished.