I've been working on making a tiny rose brooch. Now I have three sizes of velvet rose. The normal size, super sized and teeny tiny. I might seem like a total bore about my roses, or come across as someone who seems to do nothing other than make velvet roses, but practice really does make perfect. My roses have changed so much over the past few years since I first started making them out of felt. I decided to make myself rose brooches because I couldn't find anything that I really liked in the shops,and if on a rare occasion I did, it would be so disgustingly overpriced that I wouldn't part with the cash.
I love that when someone compliments me on my flowers, I can smile and say 'I made it myself'. I really do love that. It's such a good feeling,and it's nice to know that unless I've given someone a rose, no one else will have one the same. And so, boring or not, I will continue to make roses. I've got a large mason jar full of them now, and that's considering that this week alone I have given away 4. I just enjoy making them, enjoy wearing them, and enjoy sharing them. Roses really are my favourite flower and I never tire of them. Fresh, silk, pictures, fabric or velvet, it doesn't matter. I live for roses!
I have done a little bit of refashioning today. A couple of years ago I bought a green dress to wear over jeans. I usually gather it on one side with a silk rose corsage (see? Obsessed!), but I always felt that it looked just like a dress gathered on one side with a rose. Last year I managed to rip it on one side, so I had to do something as I wasn't prepared to throw it away or cut it up for something else.
Before and after piccies.
I know it looks wide in the photos, but it's not as massive as it might seem! It's just because I'd ironed it really flat in readiness for revamping.I'm really pleased. It's still nice and long, and still the item that I loved, but now it has a better fit and looks more like a proper top, instead of a dress.
Now that I have done it once, I will feel encouraged to alter clothes again.