I stayed with the module colours of orange/red and green and decided to make the fabric that I would use from felt.
Image 1 - Design worksheet:
Image 2 - Carding the felt to blend together yellow and orange:
Image 3 - Laying out the felt tops on a tray (I decided to 'do' my felting the 'quick and dirty' way which involved covering it over with a piece of net, saturating with soapy water and rubbing throughly):
Image 4 - first layer on my vintage tray (ha!):
Image 5 - More layers and the addition of threads:
Image 6 - Felt with silver thread in:
Image 7 - Felt with threads and sequins:
Image 8 - The felt I chose to use:
Image 9 - Hand embroidery on felt (which has been backed with manufacturered yellow felt):
Image 10 - Petal templates overlaid onto felt:
Image 11 - Curling silver wire:
Image 12 - Cut petals and wires with beads held together (before sewing) to see what they looked like:
Image 13 - I considered revertering to a brooch for a while but decided a headband would be better. Here I have temporarily attached spirals of wire (which were actually from an old notebook - wrapped in green fabric (from earlier in the module) and silver wire with beads sewn on) using thick wire and I then I wrapped them with thread and sewed them onto the band:
Image 14 - Finished headband/fascinator:
Image 15 - Close up of the wire spirals:
Image 16 - The band which has been wrapped in fabric:
Image 17 - Close up of the flower:
Image 18 - The fascinator/headband as modelled by the lovely Emily Stevens:
I'm quite happy with the outcome but now I have to make a box to house my fascinator in as it's not the easiest thing to store!
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