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.