Chapter 7 – Dorset Buttons

I tried to make Dorset buttons  didn’t do a great job although I enjoyed the process of making them regardless.

Image 1 – Have you tried to buy curtain rings lately?  It’s near impossible.  At least in my town.  So here’s what I ended up getting from Wilkinsons to try:

 

Image 2 – Dorset buttons:

Image 3 – My favourite one!  The green yarn is actually sparkly but you can’t really tell from this image.  It is wound round a washer:

 

Image 4 – Wool wrapped round a wooden curtain ring:

 

Image 5 – Fabric wrapped around a wooden curtain right with wool spokes adorned with beads:

 

Image 6 – Wool wrapped round a wooden curtain ring.  The spokes have been woven into but it’s not very successful – the middle reminds me of too much pesto on a vegetarian pizza:

 

Image 7 – A very Christmassy one.  Wool on a washer with red sparkly yarn wrapped around it:

Chapter 7 – Buttons

I really enjoyed making buttons.  They resemble, to me, sweeties!  Yum!

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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!