Lace and felt - bracelet

I love old lace. And not only old lace, all kind of lace. From the last fair I got from two very nice ladies some old lace to use for my jewelry and sewing stuff! I'll show you my new treasures as soon as I start using them. 

And yes, I have no problems using it, even if it is old and beautiful lace. Much better to use and love it than to let it dust in the drawers. 

For the bracelet I sewed with tiny stitches the lace onto the felt ("Walkloden" in german). 

I love the contrast between the roughness of the felt and the beauty of the lace as well as the colour contrast they create!

I already made some more just have to take pictures... to take to the fairs and / or to go into my shop (or to keep? I am tempted ^^).

Crochet lace - and the winner of the sms giveaway!

Here we go! I don't like blog entried without any pictures so I just combine the crochet lace bracelet I made with the announcement of the winner of the sms giveaway (the sea urchin earrings and -what makes even more fun for me! - some crafting stuff as surprise :) ).

 

The little bracelet I made with cotton thread and a 1,5 mm crochet hook. It is really easy to make, just several rows of single or double stitches and some little knots. To get the pink satin band through the crochet lace proved to be way more complicated... at least to get it even throught the holes! I love the effect and to crochet this kind of bracelets... but the (absolut necessary!) satin band is always... arghhs! If it were not for the satin band (or ribbon) I would make a lot more of this bracelets!

But enough rambling about crochet bracelets...

(we have a big festival here in leipzig, the wave gotik festival or short WGT and there are still two days of music and dancing and fairs to go to!)

The winner is:

Maureen Hayes

I like the sea urchin ones, although your lace is beautiful as well. I do all sorts of crafting, from stamping to art journaling to mixed media, so if you threw in any kind of art supplies I would probably be thrilled with it. I love all the Tim Holtz stuff by Ranger!

Thanks for the chance to win!

 Congratulation! I'll send you and email! The package will go on its way as soon as I have your mail adress and the post offices are open again :)

Thanks everyone for participating in the sms giveaway!

Lace and beads - jewelery

I used a piece of lace I got from Silke @für große Mädchen.(even if she writes in german, just have a look at her blog because she has a lot of pics of her great stuff! :))

I cut out very carefully the patterns. I really used everything I had from the lace (I have to find more lace like this!). 

I started to stabilize the lace...

...and then sew little glas beads onto it.

The beads are in a matt white.

I think they fit just perfect!

All the metal pieces I used are nickel-free...

...some of them made out of silver but not all. I just used what I had at hand and had the right size :)

I really like the shape and the irregular, a little bit vintage look. I am still not sure whether to keep it, to bring it with me to the fair "Leipziger Wollefest" or just to put it into my dawanda shop. ^^

A little lace choker...

...with one of the crochet flowers out of my stash :) 

Very simple, but it creates a beautiful effect :)

A little bit of vintage II - lace wrist warmers

This were the small leftovers from the lace scarf of my last blog entry. They would be a little bit tight for my wrist but this is elastic lace so no problem with it ^^

I folded the little pieces in half, the right side on the right side (the nicer side which will be outside, don't know the correct english term. If somebody could tell me, please!). The ends I folded two times and fixed it with pins. After this I sewed a elastic stich with my sweing machine. This time I used my sewing machine (Yes, I can use it again! At least a little bit before it hurts too much ^^) because this seam will be under some pressure.

Nevertheless just one line to sew ^^ And finish!

Some other (and easy to sew) warmers from me:

Little blue ones with tentacles and my struggle for the correct english term: Click here.

And the warmers suitable for my scarf "Lisboa II": Click here.

(You will also notice how my abilities with my beloved digi cam evolved ^^)

A little bit of vintage - lace scarf

I bought this beautiful lace at a trade fair here in germany. It was sold by someone from the netherlands and he told me that this came from a manufacturer from france. This was just a sample piece the send their customers but never got into mass production. He had only around 2 to 2,5 m left (nearly all he ever got ^^) and sold it to me for 2 €/m (you have an idea how expensive this normally is? 2 €/m is like nothing!).

It is around 18 cm wide and elastic and just beautiful. And no net lace or other cheap lace stuff but really made in a superiour quality. Thought for nice underwear and stuff like this but I think is way too beautiful to be hidden ^^

Since I saw it I wanted it for a scarf. Just a little bit playful next to my normal clothing. Or maybe for some evening wear from time to time...

I love the leaves as well as the waves with the dots...!

All this doesn't needed much sewing because the lace were secured on both sides. Just the ends were open. The ends wouldn't fray even unsecured so this made it very easy. I just folded the ends two times and secured it with pins. Afterwards all was sewed with a little hand stitch. I just had to take care not to pull the string too much because this is elastic material. But due to the lace not too elastic so this stich will hold :)

It is nearly invisible!

And beside buying the lace the whole project was over in about ten minutes. To blog about this took longer ^^