Snowdrops

Well despite the hideous weather here in Yorkshire, there are signs that spring is on the way. My 4 year old son came charging in from the garden the other day, very intrigued by the green spikes sticking out of the ground. Yay! the snowdrops are on their way in a multitude that will have no doubt doubled again from last year!

So, forcing myself out of the January doldrums, I started work on some snowdrop hair clips. I found these beautiful pictures on flickr and loved how the petals curved. http://www.flickr.com/photos/57309108@N00/398003162/in/photostream/.



First I had to find some white flowers so I unceremoniously destroyed some velvet roses to see what they were made of. They had a nice threefold petal in already so I just had to construct the centre.

I started with machine stitch like my pansies but the effect was way too heavy for what I had in mind. I also tried several versions with multiple beads in the middle but that didn't do it for me either. So less seems to be more and I've gone for a single, seed bead on a hand embroidered centre.

I'm getting a bridal vibe for these!

Paula x

And there is pansies, that's for thoughts

...Says poor, demented Ophelia in Hamlet! NEW in our Etsy store, millinery pansies given the Wychbury treatment (ie throw every textile technique you can think of at it, sew a few beads on for luck then TRY and leave it alone!). The have been painted, embroidered, beaded and stuck on a bobby pin to make gorgeous hair accessories for the Pre-Raphaelite in all of us!

Paula xxx