Sleeve!

Hi there person reading this!

So early last year (2011) I had a bit of a falling out with a friend of mine (Thank God we're friends again now!! =D). In that time I decided to leave the local college and join a household. I joined a household called Brechin, which required me to show allegiance in some way. For example, make some piece of garb. This was quite the dialema because their colours were blue and yellow! Blue, I love, but yellow?! EW! does not look good on my at all, what with my pail and red colouring. After much thought I decided upon a simple pair of yellow sleeves with an embroidered lion on the top half. Here is Brechin's device:

 I decided to go with a simplified Lion:

and that is what I started embroidering onto BRIGHT yellow silk!

OK, so my embroidery technique is a little bit cheating, I take the image I want, print it and pin it to the fabric and the proceed to sew it on, well, outline it. then once I've done that i start to tear off the edges of the paper very gently. I doesn't look PERFECT! but I don't know another way other than drawing it onto the fabric witch would probably work but I can't draw that good! That's what I did anyway, and it turned out quite well. Obviously after that I filled in the colour of the lion and bellow are all the pics to prove it works well!

Around April 2011 I went to Rowany Festival in Sydney, and one of the guys who was looking after us before the MOST AMAZING CAMPING EVENT I'VE BEEN TO took us to this bead shop called "I Love You Beads." Well, I think that's what its called anyway. Back to the story, I wanted beads and I had money to burn! THEN! out of nowhere I had an idea! I'll put blue and yellow beads down my sleeve and I came up with this:

I would couch on blue lines, and then sew blue beads on them and tiny yellow beads in between/
Then after Sydney, I started sewing, and I soon realised I started sewing my blue lines way too close together and I would never finish!

here are some progress shots:

Half way through I started to panic. It looked way too Spanish with its lines, and the household is Scottish and so I did some research and found this picture of Mary Queen of Scots and was over the moon happy!

I finally finished one sleeve in October for the Anealan ball, and I was going to enter it into the arts and sciences completion. I wrote all my documentation and was so excited to enter but when I got there lo and behold, there was not A&S comp.

Shortly After that I decided two sleeves wasn't hard enough and started forming ideas for a whole dress! but I can't wear yellow so I came up with this....

I'm nowhere near this stage yet, I'm not even finished my second sleeve. Mostly due to other commitments like work and uni and that and I really need to save a lot of money to buy good quality blue silk. Also I'm going to post my documentation in another post! =)

So long for now Mr Interwebs!

Also here is a pic of me that I like.