Showing posts with label Silk star suncatcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Silk star suncatcher. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

The stars are out!

Here's my suncatcher star constellation in action.

Cloudy today, so the sun part is on hold. But, as Kate Jackson would say, makes me happy!



This is a western window, sun starts coming in mid afternoon till evening, so I will be watching this space.

I love how silk takes dyes, lovely rich colors.

Monday, August 19, 2019

Silk suncatcher

Sounds like the name of a butterfly.

The epp rosettes done and scanned and awaiting the arrival of the silk paper for their next stage, which I will unfold when I find out what I'm doing, I returned to the silk diamonds.

I found reels of silk thread from a toolbox of dressmaker items I thrifted a while back. Still in perfect condition, strong, lovely to stitch with.

So I created a star. I had made a bunch of diamonds, more epp, for a tumbling block design, but thought I'd rather make stars. As you see. And stitching silk fabric with silk thread is luxury itself. So friendly to work with.



These are all little silk samples from Dharma trading I got when I ordered the large silk squares for the embroidery workshop I taught a couple of years ago.

I'll make however many stars I can get out of the supply then decide on the configuration. And at that time deal with the dogears at the points.




Just testing one, with a bit of sticky tape,  against a sunny window. I love working with light and stitching and silk, and this is by way of being a threefer.