I was bound and determined to get to the new year with at least one fewer project on my table. So I worked like a banshee to get the recently order mask completed. A task that was complicated by the task of babysitting my sisters four children. Six kids under the age of ten in one house is, well...loud. Yet I still managed to finish the mask. This is the one that I substituted a trio of black seed beads for every picot. I quite like the way it turned out. I usually don't bother taking pictures of small variations like this, but I really liked the look.
After that was done, I switched gears to production mode again. I got a few more small pieces remade and yes, i picked up the Zelda game more than once. Though I've reached one of those battle points where I know I will be repeating the same thing over and over until I "get" the pattern, so a break is in order. Plus my ds screen has taken to jumping, not flickering mind you, but jumping. I fear the cord is pinched in the hinge or something.
Back to the sequins I went. First I torn out the bottom scalloped edge that I had done first. I really didn't have the right spacing down and I had managed to warp the tatting to unattractive levels. I got that redone and then moved back to the forehead section. I have worked out a method for sewing the sequins to each other to cover the empty spaces. Though id I ever do revisit this sort of project, I am so going with the tulle method. I wanted so badly to finish this process yesterday, but alas the children wanted to cuddle and watch a movie. Who am I to deny them this.
I'll be back to the mask today and I think I might even further embellish particularly the center motif. I'm thinking of adding silver filament and perhaps some crystals since I have basically abandoned the spider idea. I know it needs something to make the lace pop, so that's what I'm going to do. I'm starting to think that I want to keep this one around after all hours and days I've put into it. Well, no use thinking about that now, we're not done yet.
Thanks for dropping by.. its been a while since I have visited your site or Etsy shop. I see your still making wonderful fun tatted items.
ReplyDeleteHere's wishing you a very Happy New Year and wonderful things to come :)
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