Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Is it silly in here, or is it just me?

I'm making good progress on the finishing of the garland. 

Last night I sewed on all of the leaves that I've received so far, and tonight I've sewn on all of the large and medium flowers. 

I'm going to hold off on sewing on the smaller ones until I get the last few packages that are coming my way -- it's much easier to work small flowers in around larger ones than it would be to work big ones in around little ones. 

Anyway, 4 metres (roughly) of garland-sewing later, things got a little...............


Ahem. Sorry. Don't know what got into me. 

Anyway, here's a preview of the garland-in-progress:


Even when it's all wound up to be put away for the night, it looks pretty darned good. I think, in fact, that if the garland were going to live with me, I'd be twining it around a wreath form and displaying it this way:


Sunday, August 3, 2008

Holy Flower Garden, Batman!


This afternoon I pulled out my box-full of pieces for Rewselene's garland...



That's the vine with only the leaves I've received so far, and I know more are on the way.




This is not a final arrangement, and obviously there are still ends to be woven in, let alone flowers sewn on, but I wanted to get a sense of how full the garland would be. 

I don't think I need to worry any more about it looking too sparse.