Showing posts with label brooches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brooches. Show all posts

Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Hand felted flower brooches



Well, i just finished an order (that came from a contact outside my e-shops) for 15 flower- brooches. I hd fun macking them, mainly because this funky art loving person whom asked me to do them, wanted unusual flowers, not the typical daisy (I suppose it is a daisy...botanics, not my thing). So I did some shapes that resembled flowers and I handstitched motifs, attached beads, mixed fibers and colors...and I liked the result! Luckily, so did the client.

Now I have a problem. I've run out of brooch pins and the place where I bought these other ones -now gone with the brooches- doesn't carry them anymore... anybody out there reading (I know there are some people, I can see countries and all! hahaha) sells supplies, knows of a good supplier...ideas??? Thanks!!!

anyway, here some pictures...





Tuesday, 17 June 2008

Brooches

I admit this is a very free interpretation of what an orchid looks like... I know. Botanists are coming after my head! I know.
I like them a lot. I found, a few days ago, this beautiful rainbow dyed silk which I applied to the top of a mount of soft orange merino wool. YUM! I hand sew some black beads to one, and the second one, a bit smaller, has black, transparent and orange beads. They reflect the light and kinda glow a bit.
To my own surprise, I'm falling in love with orange! I've always been partial to very fiery red...my favorite color. However, I'm giving orange a chance. Must be because the dutch football team is winning like crazy (so far) and the streets of this country are full with orange flags. It's contagious.

I use this type of hand felted brooches to embellish just about anything My own clothes (on those days that I just look too boring, the brooches add that extra something), curtains, bags... they same style of flower (without the pin in th back) can be attached to pillows and things like that... just use your imagination!

They are now on both my shops: Florcita Dawanda and Florcita Etsy