I really enjoyed making buttons. They resemble, to me, sweeties! Yum!
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Sunday, 25 August 2013
Chapter 6 – Tassels
Image 1 – Knotted fabric strips:
Image 2 – Wool with sequins on a thread:
Image 3 – My absolute favourite! Cords with beads on thread:
Image 4 – wool, dyed fabric strips, gold thread and dyed yarn:
Image 5 – As above but joined by machine stitching:
Image 6 – Close up of above tassel head:
Chapter 5 – Knotted, Plaited & Wrapped Methods
Now onto some knotting, plaiting and wrapping…
Image 1 – Wool knotted to make a cord:
Image 2 – Knotted wool to make a cord:
Image 3 – A machine cord knotted over a length of dyed twine:
Image 4 – machine cord knotted over a length of dyed twine with a bead string woven between the knots:
Image 5 – Machine cords knotted over dyed twine:
Image 6 – Two machine cords knotted over a length of dyed twine:
Image 7 – Using my trusty tape dispenser to weight down the end of the yarns as I plaited:
Image 8 – plaited yarns/cords. The top two are three-yarn/cord plaits and the bottom two are 4-yarn/cord plaits:
Image 9 – Close up of four-chord plait:
Image 10 – Close up of three-chord plait:
Image 11 – Wrapped yarn around twisted cords:
Image 12 – Close up of machine cords wrapped in opposite directions around a twisted cord (this is my favourite cord!):
Image 13 – I tried very very hard a great number of times (with different yarns/cords) to make a turks’ head knot but failed miserably. I gave up!:
Chapter 5 – Twisted Cords
There’s nothing more annoying than spinning round some yarn only to let go by mistake. I lied. There is something more annoying. And that’s doing it 4 times in a row with the same bit of cord. Infuriating it was!
Image 1 – Three twisted chords. The top one has a gold thread running through it, the middle is a strip of fabric and the bottom is straight-forward wool:
I made more than three but I forgot to take a photo before I used them!
Chapter 5 – Machine Cords
With my machine showing its displeasure at free machining I was shocked to see that it actually rather liked making cords (and so did I! I went into a cord frenzy!).
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Image 2 – A pile of cords (spot the clear tape on one of the cords – it made it easier to pass the sets of yarn through the straws):
Image 3 I was eating a packet of Mini Cheddars and decided to put the packet in a cord…:
Image 4 – Orange wasn’t originally in my colour scheme of greens and reds/pinks but I like it so I’ve added it!:
Image 5 – More cords:
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