I am learning a new photo editing programme called Gimp and I have successfully saved the above image to jpg format and blurred out the names of the Blackheath Ladies who attended the workshop in April 2021 from the screen shot.
Tag: Fascinators
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Blackheath Ladies Fascinator
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Happy Place
On Thursday 29th July I was chatting with Lynn, it was so good catching up, we are study partners for our embroidery diploma.
A box of fabrics had just been delivered and she showed me each piece and I was in a happy place with her, I felt encouraged with my creativity while looking through the fabrics with her and knowing that when I am more healed I can start sewing again. Lynn shared the time when her right thumb was fractured and the knuckles were strapped up, she was able to hold the needle between her thumb and first finger and she was able to thread the eye of the needle, I realised while showing her that I cannot pinch my thumb and first finger together and so I may need to wait a little longer, unless I had someone to thread the needle for me.
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The Charleston
I created The Charleston, because I had bought some feathers to create other fascinators with and wanted to make something a little bit quirky and smaller. As a designer maker specialising in embroidery and all things textile base, I have seemed to have collected many fun items to work with over the years and I found ribbon knit, (I cannot remember the technical name, or even if there is one) that is purple, but it has been dyed with multi colours, so some of the ribbon knit is green then fades into pink and then into purple. I then realised that I needed some form of buttons to top the design off and with the buttons I have been collecting I was able to find some buttons from the ever growing stash to sew into the hairband.
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Leaf Miner Feather
Leaf Miner and Leaf Miner Feather are both listen on Folksy, but why call this fascinator Leaf Miner Feather, for one simple reason, I have attached feathers between the green and gold petals. The feathers bring the fascinator into another dimension with more life and movement flowing through it.
During lockdown I was craving to see my sister, as I hadn’t seen her for six months, sometimes I can go longer and not see her for eight months. I was in a relationship and unfortunately we broke up a few weeks before while we were in lockdown and it would have been nice to have spent some of my birthday with him, but then I wouldn’t of had the same opportunity to be shown around Madeleine’s garden. I was looking intently at the leafs and absorbing the colour combinations against an intense heat radiating from out sun, that day was a hot sunny day temperatures in the early 30’s, (which I am not always great in), and then I was captivated by a certain leaf, which my sister plucked from the branch of the bush. The leaf had a strange pattern on it, a squirly line around the leaf, the line that was evident to the naked eye was cream or gold in the sunlight and depending on how far I positioned the leaf away from the camera. This picture inserted is the last picture I took, you can see the leaf is quite dark green against the gold/cream line that has been left from the leaf miner. To gardener’s they are a pest, but to the trained eye of a designer it is beauty with possible creative ideas to be shown to the world in a new medium.
