Beading

I recently was inspired by the Commonwealth Games in India to make a beaded wallhanging.  It is called Shades of India and is satin, habutai, microdot, sequins and beads, and hand quilted to finish.  Oh and feathers and strings of beads along the bottom.  You can see a larger picture on my website on the Gallery Page at christinelinton.com.au

Fabric Flowers

http://www.linda-matthews.com/tutorial-fabric-flower-embellishment/

For a terrific fabric poppy, go to Linda Matthews site above, where there is a tutorial. 

Making ribbon roses

or the link below will give you a YouTube video on how to make a ribbon rose, it is so simple and looks so good.

http://tinyurl.com/2d3whzg

 

Lace Butterflies

This website has some lovely lace butterflies and other beauties.  However, I had trouble finding out how to actually make lace.  There are lots of links on this site so maybe with more time I could find out more.  I would love to put some photos on here but of course they're all copyright.

http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/

Lace

I've often admired lace and lacemakers at shows, and yesterday at my local library, on the "chuckout table" I found a book for 20 cents called A Dictionary of Lace by Pat Earnshaw, printed in 1982.  It is so interesting to find out about different types of lace.  Unfortunately the photos, though lovely, are all in black and white and fairly small.  Still, it was 1982 when you didn't always expect big colour photos such as we are used to now.  Having had my interest whetted, I googled Venetian lace and found this page on Mary Corbet's Needle "n"Thread site, which is interesting anyways, as it has lots of different types of needlework.  I recommend it.
http://tinyurl.com/247mx6x