Friday, February 29, 2008

Lacey Wings

This is my directions on how I made my lacey wings for the Dark Fairy. Supplies I use:
paper, pencil and pen
black organza
watersoluable stabilizer, 2 different weights
pipecleaner
sewing machine
embossing gun






using paper and pencil I hand drew a picture on how I want the wings to look. I place the lighter weight stabilizer on top of my drawing and trace it with a black pen. Sandwich: heavy stabilizer, organza and lightweight stabilizer. Stitch around the design or stitch the block edge.




now you want to stitch the outlines of your wings several times.




Normaly when I do freemotion stitching I take my foot off and just use the shank but on these wings I used forward and my back button. I did a crisscross in each section I outlined, back and forth then did a straight stitch to try to catch all the stitches.




now to cut away the excess around the edges and soak in cold/warm water to disolve the stabilizer. Make sure all of the stabilizer is gone, run under water and squish around with your fingers to get rid of all the gumminess.


I stitched pipecleaners on the top and bottom edge of the wings for posing. then I heat distressed using my embossing gun.

I cut off the extra pipecleaner and this what the wings look like on my doll.



Dark Fairy








I wanted to make a dark fairy and this is all I could come up with.

New doll




I made this new doll, her face is redone.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Fiberart cloth dolls





One of my most favorite pastime is working with fibers.

Fairies Imp





I made some little beaded dolls I named Fairies Imp, they have polymer clay faces and wings with a fully beaded body on felt. These are pindolls. I have 3 left and they can be purchased from my etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5034584

Polymer clay



I like to work with polymer clay but i havent touched the stuff since last year. Here is some things I do with it.