Frothy Buttermilk Ruff

Frothy Buttermilk Ruff
Inspired by the sight of buttermilk frothing into a white china jug this lace laden triple layered ruff sits snugly to your neck giving instant elegance

Inspired by images of

Harlequin Neck Piece

Harlequin

A fancy neck piece made from blue and cream cotton and decorated with vintage black beads and crochet flowers with petrol effect beading.

Perfect

Cascade Ruff

Cascade
A delectable layer of delicate white cotton plain and unadorned

more ruffs and cuffs

This is a selection of pieces from my new ruff collection

Harlequin Ruff

Pale blue and cream single layer crochet ruff neck pieces with black vintage beads, crochet flowers and metallic petrol beads.

Frothed Cream
white triple layer neck ruff in crochet cotton

Lady ?
creamy white crochet ncklace with lilac and toffee beading down the centre and large purple stitched gem effect stones at the top

Gold Nectar
Gold single layer ruff made from crochet cotton
due to be decorated

Pompadour
Blue cotton double layer ruff designed to sit close to the neck.
Pompadour 2
Triple layered ruff neck piece made from pure blue crochet cotton, yellow crochet cotton and metallic effect gold thread.


Stars from a Thousand Universes
Blue Crochet neck piece decorated with petrol effect beads

New Ruff Collection

I havn't been lax over the past few I have been busy researching ruffs and cuffs and creating some lucious cream, blue and gold pieces that I am especially proud of. These will be on my website and my Etsy as soon as I photograph them properly

Lack of posting and another Treasury listing

I have been most terribly lax in posting over the past couple which is shameful but I have good reasons. Computer died on me for one and still isn't right but atleast I can post now, lost camera lead so photographs were impossible and the disgusting rain meant that the ponies stable roof collapsed so it was flooded and with a dirt floor that is no joke.
On the plus side I have been gifted with another treasury listing upon the theme of soft summer rain. This time itwas my favourite Pale Knights Poets top in vintage Jaegar rags to riches yarn.

I've been Treasured on Etsy

LilliesbyLisa has put my ballerina ghost pendant on her list on Etsy.
Its the first time its happened so its rather exciting.

Here is the link

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=61414

It will expire5/7/09 at 7.48 presisomo.

New Pendants and New Pics

As promised a couple of new pics and my pieces and three new additions to the pendant collection. One of them is Rococo Pearl and the other two are Hellfire Club and Pleasure Garden.

I simply couldn't resisist being artistic with the skull in this photograph and it does go with the image presented with the title.

This piece is black felt backed with a fiery red print in the centre surrounded by black and red glass beads with a half surround of pleated black lace.

The centre piece is reminisant of fiery flames licking the beads which glow in the light and the black lace gives it an air of decadance and aristocratic finery.

Pleasure Garden.
This brings up images of stern victorian men in tall hats and suits and ladies in fabulous dresses strolling along paths admiring the scenery but let us not forget the somewhat darker side if this seemingy innocent scene.

Inspired by the pleasure gardens of the victorian period this piece has a black felt background covered with white wool and maroon lace. It is heavily stitched in black around the edges and in white over the lace.

It shows a view of a pleasure garden as well as the artistic layout of one of its parts with brightly coloured glass beads at one edge, pearly white beaded thread at another and a white cotton lace flower with a black bead nestled in the centre.

and Rococo Pearl I have already featured here

A most delighful oversized piece inspired in part by Rococo and Marie Antionette.

This is cream lace backed with white jacob and a recycled lace covering.

It features a powder blue and white cameo piece surrounded by white pearly buttons and cream hand made lace

I have the temptation to go with the titles Dirty Rococo and Steampunk Madame for the next couple of pieces

new pics on website

Iwill be updating pictures on the website today so apologies for any hic ups

Fabric Art Pendants

I have been working on a selection of fabric art pendants inspired by some of my favourite things.

Hearts delight was the first one I made and was followed by the ones you will see as you browse down the post.
I rescued the entire book The Lost Amazon and as the cover was falling off I recycled this delighful corner image to create the pendant.
The Walled Garden is from a brochure about Buscot Park in that among other things houses the Faringdon Collection which boasts a beautiful selection of Pre Raphaelite paintings including The Briar Rose by Burne-Jones.

Coming soon will be a piece inspired by the pleasure gardens of Victorian London and a piece inspired by the Hellfire club.





Hearts Delight
An ever so pretty piece backed in black felt with pink stitching comprising of three individual felt hearts with pure wool padding machine stitched in black and white with one covered in maroon lace and all deorated in brightly coloured glass seed beads.
This piece has no specific point of inspiration apart from those of texture and colour

Rococo Pearl
This a large very eye catching piece featuring a felt backing with white lace covering, creamy handmade lace edging, white pearlised buttons and a delightful white and powder blue reproduction cameo.

Walled Garden

This piece was made after a browse through the brochure of Buscot park in Oxfordshire in which there is a delightful photograph of the walled garden hich I have surrounded by a selection of seed beads representing the sky, the grounds, the trellis and the blossoms. It also has three delicate cotton flowers at the corners.

The Lost Amazon

This is a very interesting piece inspired by the works of Victorian Explorers especially that of Richard Evans Schultes and the photographic journey book *The Lost Amazon*.

This book was rescued from destruction and the delightfull cover was put to a far better use.

The main picture shows two native fisherman surrounded by sparkling glass seed beads in green,whites and blues.

Black cotton background with green merino wool machine overstitched with black cotton with machine stitched image from the book cover surrounded by hundreds of hand sewn seed beads.

Ballerinas Ghost

Inspired by vintage photographs,Degas prints and Rococo this beautiful pendant has a felt and jacob wool base overstitched in black and white with black glass beads. beaded thread with a black bow and a vintage photograph of a dancer.