Seam Bias Tape Flowers Step 2 Added ToThe Cuff

 Excuse my pictures....They are a little out of sequence

The seam bias tape flowers

in green

I Looove green

and I also like reversing colors

 I decided to use all of these green flowers and you know...the ones

I thought were too poofy

look really great

and the ones I liked that have fewer petals.. They are ok, but not as lush

on this cuff.

This is how she started out...The edging from a vintage pillowcase

and pretty peach brocade

Underneath peach bias tape vine...I wish I had grabbed pink or maybe

brown...but

you can't see it anyway...

There is much more to add I can feel it

More crystals...a few more smaller

flowers. It is hard to say

when it is finished.

The inside still needs lined...Maybe that beautiful antique peridot

velvet I have been saving.

I can see several loose threads need snipped



This Weeks Big Project Victorian Cuff Bracelet

One of the things I have missed the last few years is my embroidery needles.  I put everything away after starting a huge crazy quilt project for my son.  Working on it at night after he and my husband went to bed really wore my eyes out...Last year finally breaking down bifocals came into my life...Thank Goodness!!!! I could see again at last. 

Cruising on the blog I have seen so many beautiful projects...It just did not hit me until this last Monday how much I yearned to create again with fabric and  beads.  It is so typical that the project you dream about making ends up not being the project you actually make...Maybe that only happens to me and not other people.  But it happens to me quite often...ha ha

I love pink...and I have a pretty piece of peachy pink brocade fabric that was going to be the base for my bracelet.  But.....This beautiful maroon-rusty satin has been calling to me for the longest time.  I rescued it from a large pile of junk left by my parents next door neighbors by the side of the road when they moved overseas. (I know..I know...I am a scrounge)  But it is so beautiful and it called to me to be rescued and made into something new.  Anyway....

Thought pink....ended up with maroon and black.  I really love how it turned out!
A single vintage earring...Hundreds of crystal beads in assorted sizes.  Two Victorian black glass buttons.  This was a lot of fun to make...and I have already pressed my next pieces of fabric to start the next one....The peachy pink brocade with a lush vintage gold satin...mmmmm