"But, really, why does anyone create? You feel a... a restlessness inside, a need to make something new, something no one has ever seen before. You want to add to the beauty and the richness of the world with a gift, an offering that is uniquely yours. It's an act of selfishness and generosity, all rolled into one."

-- Bruce Coville,
The Last Hunt

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Two Finished Projects

In the last week there have been two things I've posted and said I was going to do more with them. I have now done so.

First up, Mary Konior's "Posy", which I showed four days ago. It is now attached to a small organza bag along with MK's "Leaf Braid" edging.


And the bag is filled with cinnamon sticks, cloves, and dried orange peel for a wonderful scented sachet.


I found out that Jo-Ann's sells the bags, so I'm going to do more of these.

Next up is the dragon I posted last Saturday, which now has a friend.




I joined them first by the middle ring of the clover at the end of the tail; I put tiny little joining picots on either side of the decorative picot/ bead. Then after every couple of split rings, I joined the second dragon to the first and brought the threads around to the other side so that the tails would wrap around each other. Then I joined the dimpled rings on the heads in the same way that I joined the ends of the tails. I didn't join the bodies or wings to each other at all. After the dragons were finished, I made a lock-stitch chain about six inches long and threaded it through the picots that form the dimples on the two dimpled rings at the head; this is the hanging cord.

This is really hard to photograph, so I hope I've been able to describe what I did adequately. Here are some close-ups of the heads and tails.



5 comments:

  1. I love the organza bags - what a great idea for little gifts!
    ~Cindy

    ReplyDelete
  2. pretty bag.
    wow, mating dragons. are they going lay eggs and hatch a clutch of draglets? dragonettes?

    ReplyDelete
  3. My mind is boggled at how you even thought to do this! And the colors are amazing.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Pretty bag! And interesting dragons! :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. What a lovely couple! Maybe the baby dragon by Fox is their hatchling...?
    http://www.tat-ology.com/2011/12/nobodys-perfect.html

    ReplyDelete