My mom recently sent me Martha's Encyclopedia of Crafts and it is awesome. It makes me wish I had a great, big, open studio that I could have room for so many different kinds of projects. Just about every page in this book has something I'd like to try (or have previously tried but had poor directions and lack of focus!).
So Martha's Encyclopedia is obviously set up from A to Z. And as I'm mentioning this I think I need to go Julie/Julia style on my blog and go through Martha's book A to Z with my own twist?
"B" has several projects and techniques, one of which is beaded flowers. I've been making and selling my bobby pins, but have been wanting to come up with some more stuff that people would be interested in. Also something that isn't crazy time intensive. Checking out Martha's beaded flowers made me think of how neat they would be in a wedding, as well as a keepsake for those involved. I was really drawn to the Dogwood Blossoms and decided to give one a try.
While working on the petals I decided that my first attempt to put them together would be on a {scd} bobby pin with a button center. Petals done, assembly started and I'm a little lost at what I should do with the ends of my wire. I threaded them through the button holes and thought I could wrap the ends around my bobby pin, but that added too much bulk and didn't look the greatest. Chad then suggested that I just twist the wire ends together after pulling it through the button holes and making it stamen. Why didn't I think of that to begin with and save myself 20 minutes of unnecessary twisting and wrapping? Having a second set of eyes and a practical mind is wonderful. Thanks Chad!The end result is perfect! The stamen wire ends add another fun touch and the backside of the flower lays very flat, making it easy to attach to a bobby pin. Wearing my test run today to see how it holds up. Maybe we'll see a fun flower line of bobby pins available from {scd} soon!
