Recently I made my third piece of jewelry with the pendants I bought, and this time around I made a pair earrings (my favorite jewelry to wear!). I did them in a silver pendant, using grey linen and various colors of floss giving off a mild ombre effect.
These pendants are seriously so light. They are the most comfortable to wear, ever! I bought the pendants off of Etsy via Kailea Silk Jewelry & Settings.
xoxo.
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Remember how I mentioned getting a few empty bezels in the mail a little while back? So far I had made a brooch with them, and this past week I added a necklace to the list.
I used blue linen for the fabric, and colors of floss that reminded me of fall. I’m so excited for fall, and all the colors I’ve been using lately definitely show that. (The floss colors are all DMC and numbers 900, 166, 3848, 3852, 563, and 154 going from left to right if you see some you like!)
I love the chain as much as I love the embroidery aspect. I always have liked longer chains, and this one is no exception, it sits at 30″.
You can check out more photos, and more info on this piece on Etsy, where it is up for sale!
xoxo.
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Recently I ordered quite a few empty bezel sets to make a brooch, earrings, and a couple of necklaces. The style of bezel is different than the ones I normally use, but different in a better way. The back has two layers, so with one you can wrap the fabric around, and the second is used to hide it all.
My first try was on the brooch, and I really dig it.
First I traced the shape of the brooch with white color pencil onto the fabric I chose, so I could embroider “in the lines.”
After I chose the colors I was ready to go. I started with the outline of the design. I did it with a back stitch, and then covered it with an overcast stitch to give it more of a finished look.
Next I filled the space between the lines with triangles using satin stitch.
xoxo.
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I had been wanting to make a Peter Pan Collar for what seems like ever now, and this week I finally gave it a go.
This time around was mostly good for a learning experience. The next one I make needs to be less bulky (and will include a tutorial!). I’m going to make it thinner so it doesn’t go so close to my neck, and will probably end up giving it a double layer. I’ll probably use a smaller button, too. I just got that one from my roommate though and really like it, so I wanted to use it somehow. In my defense, though, I made this one in probably all of ten minutes with no planning.
It’ll do until I get around making a replacement, though!
xoxo.
ps. Don’t forget to enter this giveaway!
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A couple of months ago I made a pair of embroidered wooden earrings, and I recently just finished my second pair.
I ended up liking these ones a little better than the last ones, they are a bit bigger, and with my short hair I prefer bigger earrings.
I’m still trying to figure out what I can do on the back to hide the exposed floss. I thought about gluing a piece of felt, but I worry it may be too bulky. What do you guys think?
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I have another piece of embroidered jewelry to share today, and this time it is a ring! I haven’t made any rings yet, so I’m pretty stoked about it.
This was so easy to make. Earlier this year I made a tutorial on how to make embroidered necklaces, however this ring takes out half of the steps. I embroidered on felt versus fabric, and because of this I was able to eliminate the use of cardboard. Normally the fabric isn’t thick enough to just glue right onto the bezel, however with felt that is not an issue. So if you are interested in making one, you can follow these steps making the said adjustments.
You can pick up the empty bezels (both ring and pendants) at any craft store, I think I got these ones at either Hobby Lobby or Michael’s. Hobby Lobby is always a bit cheaper though!
Now hopefully I can remember to take it off when I wash my hands…
xoxo.
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For those of you who don’t know, I pretty much love sloths. They’re by far my favorite animal. A few months back Bryan made a sloth stamp, and last night I decided to put it to use. I made a few different sloth brooches, I think they turned out pretty awesome… but I’m biased because of the whole sloth thing.
So some of them the print is hard to make out in the photo…it is a sloth with it’s limbs wrapped around a tree.
I used fabric paint for the stamp, and printed on just plain cotton fabrics. I then sewed it to a larger piece of felt, and then sewed that to a larger piece of felt.
(this one is my favorite…the print turned out the best, the purple fabric definitely took the paint better than the red)
Now what to do with all of these little sloths?!
xoxo.
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of “spear” necklaces around, and I think they are pretty much the cutest. I’m in love with this one I found on Pinterest:
Isn’t it beautiful? I decided to make something inspired by it. I recently bought a new box of Crayon’s to use on my embroidery, and thought they would work perfectly for this project, as well. I decided to use white, pink, and teal.
I used a potato peeler to make the crayons look a little more rough, and a warm needle to puncture the holes. I utilized a piece of silver wire I had to “string” them, and then attached it to an old chain I had lying around.
I really like the way it turned out, but it is somewhat fragile. I need to hit up Hobby Lobby and get something a little more sound to replace the piece of silver I used. Who would of thought there are so many uses for crayons?
xoxo.
