I just love that name. She was a character in the old Dick Tracy comic strip. I even named one of my quilts after her many years ago. I thought it was also perfect to describe what I am working on now. I did some of these in Florida and I am back to them now. Opulent Ornaments using Paula Nadelstern's gorgeous fabric.
I am finished sewing for awhile. I have some mysterious ailment which is causing me a lot of pain. We are trying different drugs, including Prednisone, which is a miracle drug, but you can't stay on it forever. We are waiting the result of blood work
The ornaments are easy to work on since I can just sit at my work table and work on them when I feel like it. All these sparkly things cheer me up.
I started in Florida with 6 inch styrofoam balls. It was fairly easy to stretch the fabric around the balls and then add lots of beads, sequins and colored head pins. My plan was to pile them in this beautiful glass bowl that I bought in Germany, but I quickly saw that that is not big enough. So now I am planning on getting some tall clear glass columnar vases. I know that Pottery Barn has them that are quite pricey, but hopefully I can find some online for a better price.
Here are the balls in three sizes, six inch, five inch and four inch.
It was little harder to get the fabric smooth on the five inch, but I did make four of those, too
Now I'm working on the four inch. Much more challenging to get that fabric smooth, but I do a lot of slitting and tucking.
On this four inch ball I cut two fairly large circles and they almost meet evenly in the middle. I am waiting on another sequin order from Michaels which includes some sequin ribbon. It should cover up that "seam" perfectly.
Here in one end of the above 4" ball.
Another 4" using a different fabric. Notice the light blue sequins in gradating sizes forming that swirl. I get these from Michaels. You get three different sizes of the same color in a set.... large, medium and tiny. BTW I have already used a half pound box of straight pins. More coming from Amazon.
So I'm glad that I have something to occupy my time. I would love to be outside in this glorious spring weather putting some flowers in the ground, but I am not up to that yet. Hopefully some day soon.
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Off the Wall Friday.
2 comments:
I'm so sorry to hear that you're dealing with health issues that affect your sewing. It's a good thing you can still work on those fabulous ornaments! Hope your doctors can have you good as new before too long.
So sorry your not up to par, hopefully the Dr.'s will get you back to your normal healthy self soon.
The ornaments are absolutely amazing, they should be quite stunning in tall cylinders .
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