Tapestry

It's more like a look-a-like tapestry. I fell in love with it when I've decided to upholster the 3-seater sofa for my room. It fits in the Victorian look well.

My mum had this book for a long time. It's put to good use now. Yes, it was from the library and sometimes the library sells their really old books for cheap, so my mum got them. We didn't steal it!

I've been working on this for a few weeks now. I do it during the evenings when I feel up to it. It can be therapeutic, but you know, cross-stitch is not my thing. After this, I'm not going to start on any cross-stitch projects anymore. The book has nice big prints of the grid patterns, and I still make mistakes!

These are the 2 that are in progress. Mum's helping me on one of them. I'm sewing this one .

Mumzie's doing this.

It's too labour intensive. This is the progress after a month plus work (mind you, I only sew when I feel up to it in the evenings & nights). Still a long way to go...

Stay tuned for the finished work... note that it'll be a long while.


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Dress Me Up (Part 2)

I'm back to continue the lamp shade. :) After measuring the base circumference of the lamp shade, I realized that 1 meter of organza is not enough. So my head seamstress had to halt this project till we buy enough fabric. *Sigh*

BUT, I've sewn on the crystals onto the shades (recap, I've bought 2 of these floor lamps). I'll show you the process. Just make sure to get working leather gloves, thick needles for upholstery purposes and a ball of strong thread.

Let's start.

I started off by laying out the pattern and colour assortment sequence per pane on the table. After, I measured and placed markings on the shade. For each pane, I had 7 (middle) + 1 + 1 (both ends of pane)

 Tie a knot and start on a new marking. (I'm continuing mine in this picture)

Slot in your crystal beads.

Pull it tight and snug to the frame.

 Make another round.

Secure with another stitch. The shade fabric has 2 layers, note when doing this, make sure that your thread goes in-between the layers to hide the thread. 

 Out on the next marking and repeat the process.

 On the underside, it looks like this. Clean looking with just the stitch.

The end result!

My hands were a little sore from pulling & pushing the needle onto the lamp shade. As this is 2nd hand, the hardened glue on the edges of the shade makes it even tougher. That's why I need the aid of the leather gloves. If not, the needle will go through my hands.

Ok, last step will be to put on the fabric. 

Stay tuned for part 3! 

Dress Me Up (Part 1)

Remember this?

 
I wanted to do a face lift for this. Bought a huge bag of crystal parts from Hock Siong & Co at dirt cheap prices and organza fabric. My mum's the master seamstress, so I did the ground work to piece the crystals together.

Yes, I even put them in sequence how it should hang from each pane.

Unfortunately, my head seamstress is pretty busy these days at work, so the operation has been halted till she feels like doing it. Well, the plan is to sew these crystals along the edge of the lamp shade and to cover the shades with a sewn organza outer piece with pleats.

I'll keep you posted once we start on it again!