It appears that I haven't yet cottoned on to loading more than one image per post, so that will mean multiple posts until I learn.

This is another vessel, again one that I made after reading Janet Edmonds' book. This time I hand-stitched pleats in the fabric, which was an awkward shape to begin with but I left it on the basis that it would tell me what to do. The pleats run vertically, and I stitched over them to flatten them in alternate directions. Then I lined the piece and made it into a cylinder. The odd shape that I started with ended up as this rather elegant vessel.

Between the pleats are small blue-dyed pearl discs.

Again it has been stitched to a black-painted base.

This vessel is one that I made after reading Janet E's book, but I don't think it looks much like any of hers. I hope not anyway. Unfortunately the colour isn't perfect in this shot, nor in any of the others that we took; in real life it is more scarlet.

I hand-stitched channels in the fabric and threaded narrow rope through them. Because of the hand-stitching the channels aren't perfect - in fact that was deliberate as I wanted them to go up and down and even have gaps between them sometimes. In the gaps I added some beads which gives it just a bit of sparkle, or should that be bling?

I sewed the two ends together to make a cylinder, lined it with something silky in a matching colour, and sewed the bottom edge to a circle of black-painted MDF that my Dearly Beloved (hereinafter DB) drilled for me.

I quite like this little vessel. It is about 10cm in diameter and 15cm high.

One of the people on the C&G list has told us of her new blog, and also that she is reading Janet Edmonds' book on 3D embroidery. As I have read this book, and made some 3d pieces, mostly vessels, I thought I would start off this blog with some of them.

The first is a box that I made quite a long time ago, before I read the book. I have used machine stitching and embroidery with metallic silver thread. The box is made from a base of pelmet vilene (same as Timtex), covered with medium blue fabric and embellished with black felt with strips of organza and silver-thread covered flat washers stitched on with variegated metallic blue thread. I quite like this style of box and would like to do more, especially now that I know the pitfalls.

I seem to be unable to add any more photos to this post, so the rest will have to wait.