Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Watching the birds - playing around

When I saw what my hands had played with while exercising free motion machine embroidery, I had to laugh: somehow it made me think of the early morning arguments with my teenage son ;-)!



Using very simple outlines, a bit like childrens' drawings, makes it possible to transfer the forms into almost every material.

I liked the look of these birds and pondered upon how to make a brooch with the motif - while experimenting, I came up with this:



The bodies are cut out of discarded plastic cards (same stiffness as credit or club cards), covered with patterned washi tape. In good old malfatto manner, I just attached the broche needle and other metal wire components with duct tape.

Bits of wire - sometimes combined with scoubidou strings - and some beads for embellishments made the rest.

(German summary: Zwei Variationen von Vögel, einmal genäht/maschinengestickt, einmal als Broschen mit Recylingmaterial.)


4 comments:

Elizabeth said...

They look so sweet loving cute Anneli. You just keep experimenting!!!!

Clare Wassermann said...

They are such fun....I like their individual characters. I see what you mean about you and your son. I have that too. I guess he's the smaller one with his hair standing on end? Very soon mine will be the larger one and MY hair will be standing on end!!!!

Heidi-Trollspecht said...

die Vögel sind sehr schön geworden. So originell und bunt. Etwas ganz Besonderes!
lieber Sonntagsgruß von Heidi-Trollspecht

Anneli/Bockfilz said...

Thank you so much, dear Elizabeth, Clare, Heidi!

@ Clare: Yes, you're right - he's supposed to be the smaller one with his hair standing on end - at least in my imagination. In real life, he is already quite some taller than I am ...!