{"id":10120,"date":"2016-10-25T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10120"},"modified":"2016-10-16T20:49:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T19:49:10","slug":"making-brooches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/25\/making-brooches\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Brooches"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Haul<\/a>

Haul from L’uccello<\/p><\/div>\n

Those who follow me on Instagram<\/a> may recall that I posted a picture of goodies acquired from L’uccello, on Swanston St in Melbourne, when I was there over the summer. Since I went in with no particular end in view, I was completely bewildered by the range of possibilities I found, so I didn’t buy very much, but now I know where to find them, I will do my homework in advance!<\/p>\n

\"Felt<\/a>

Felt Flower<\/p><\/div>\n

When I came home, vague and somewhat jetlagged, I sat and played with the felt and thread (a cotton from Sajou, a brand I’ve heard of, but never used before) that I’d bought, blanket stitching the felt shapes I had bought, and then attaching the felt ball using a whipped spider’s web stitch, pulled tight to flatten the ball slightly into the stacked shapes, and made a brooch. It works well, and there’s a lovely shine from the cotton.<\/p>\n

\"Teal<\/a>

Teal Circles<\/p><\/div>\n

I enjoyed myself so much (somewhat to my surprise, as small, fiddly projects don’t go well with jetlag!), I started thinking of other brooches I might make. You may have noticed that I love Teal, in almost all shades, so my next effort was to cover different sizes of self-cover buttons with different teal fabrics. In fact the most difficult thing here was to devise a backing that might help to stack the buttons as I wished them to be stacked. In the end, I created a roll of felt, and sewed the buttons to that. The finished brooch looks a lot better than in the photo, which has killed off the colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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