Hearts.

For this weeks tag, I used one of my UFO's.  When I was thinking of using Shelley for some textile work last year, I started making  a  milagros (an Italian charm that would have been bought to ask for a special blessing for the person represented on the milagros) As he drowned in Italy I wanted my heart to be rusty.
I cut and embossed a metal heart and then soaked it in vinegar to rust it.  The background heart was cut from 2 pieces of felt, that I then stitched layers of lace and pearls around.  The words on the heart are taken from Shelley's headstone on his grave in Rome, which I typed up on the computer and printed onto vellum.  This was then machine stitched to a tea dyed piece of tape. Metal heart and words were attached to the felt heart with 2 brads. Dangles at the bottom include another bit of my Grandmothers jet.  This was then stitched to a card tag  covered with part of the poem Adonais, he wrote when his friend Keats died.( these words are also on a memorial to him in the Old Priory Church, Christchurch, Dorset)