Thursday, 26 July 2012

Rock-pools and beach finds

Hello everyone, hope you have all had some sunshine this week.  What a joy it has been to be at the seaside stitching my tag this week. 
For my tag this week I picked a handful of shells and interesting beach finds from my collection and stitched them onto my tag.  Most of them had holes in them to sew through, others I just sewed over  to attach them to the tag. I used craft vylene covered in purply-green silk for the base tag and used various threads to stitch the shells on, and embroider in between. I then filled in the gaps with pearls and turquoise beads and sequins. 

 The tag is finished with a tie of turquoise threads and ribbons with beads and pearls.  Thank you for all your lovely comments on my J. L. Seagull tag last week.  I shall be round later to see all your  rock pools and beach finds.  Thanks for looking, have a wonderful creative week.  Bye for now,

Jane xx

15 comments:

  1. That's a lot of stitches! Very pretty!

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  2. This is gorgeous, and how lovely to have been on the beach making it! Valerie

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  3. What a lot of wonderful finds you have there - your tag is lovely. I love all the tiny little beads and sequins scattered in between the bigger pieces.

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  4. I love your color scheme and all the texture you created with your stitching. Blessings!

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  5. Great idea to stitching shells to your tag. I was just admiring the tiny blanket stitch all around your tag. How fab to be able to sit on the beach stitching.

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  6. Great beach finds, and a lovely way to showcase them! x

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  7. What a lot of work you put into this. Such lovely colours & textures :0)

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  8. That is lovely. Very flotsam and jetsum - are they the right words? love the colours. jenx

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  9. Wow. That's a natty idea to stitch over the shells that had no holes in them. Love this tag and so original too. Hugs Mrs A.

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  10. What a great display of beach finds. I too think its a great idea stitching them on to your tag.Lovely!

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  11. What a fab idea to stitch all the shells to your tag..love all the little beads and bits stitched in between too! Clever little tag!

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  12. Many thanks for all your lovely comments about my tag, I just love shells and beach finds! The stitching around the edge was more of a fluke than by design - tension on my sewing machine not right! Jane xx

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  13. Beautiful tag, Jane! I really like the colours and the way the shells are set to look their best against the stripey background.
    It is nice to think of you stitching a shell tag at the seaside!
    Jane x

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  14. A lovely stitched tag, some great finds. How wonderful to be able to stitch your tag on the beach.

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  15. What a wonderful collection of beach finds - very effective stitching.

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