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re is another lovely project from The Art of French Beaded Flowers by Carol Benner Doelp: the Floating Gardenia. This took quite a long time to make, particularly because I've never undertaken mak
ing so many petals before. It looks nice, but I feel like it required a little too much work. This is the first time also, that I tried lacing ("sewing" the rows of the leaf or petal together). At fi
rst I thought that it wasn't very important, but I gave it a try anyway. Well, it really makes a difference! Putting in just a little extra work has really changed how the overall product looks. I decided to try several lacing in several places on the leaf. I have pictures of both the front and the back of all five leaves. The last le
af was laced as it was made, not afterwards like the others.
Here is another lovely project from The Art of French Beaded Flowers by Carol Benner Doelp: the Floating Gardenia. This took quite a long time to make, particularly because I've never undertaken making so many petals before. It looks nice, but I feel like it required a little too much work. This is the first time also, that I tried lacing ("sewing" the rows of the leaf or petal together). At fi
rst I thought that it wasn't very important, but I gave it a try anyway. Well, it really makes a difference! Putting in just a little extra work has really changed how the overall product looks. I decided to try several lacing in several places on the leaf. I have pictures of both the front and the back of all five leaves. The last leaf was laced as it was made, not afterwards like the others.
2 comments:
Your "Floating Gardenia" turned out very nice. I have Doelp's book, too, but I have not tried the Gardenia yet. I can imagine that it takes long to make it. I saw that you have Hobby Models 1 and 8. I am desperately looking for them since there must be patterns for beaded trees.(?) I am from Germany so I do not know if I am able to obtain them. But if you could tell me in which book beaded trees are described that would be helpful for me. :)
It is absolutly amazing what a little bit of lacing can do. I test my pattern designs on one of my friends and she used to think I was crazy for the amount of lacing I made her do...but I converted her.
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