Using gold leaf to decorate your calligraphy. You can use it as part of a letter (usually a big initial), or as part of the decoration around a letter, or anywhere really . It doesn't show up very well on photographs (especially not when I take the pictures...), but here are a few examples:
The postman brought me some lovely Alyce Schroth hand-dyed silks! Unfortunately the shop (in America) charged me for the heavy silk while sending the fine silk -- a difference of more than $1 per skein! I'll give them a call tonight.
Mabel Figworthy wrote:It's a lovely hobby; I'm rather sorry I don't seem to get round to it anymore . Should he ever want to learn gilding, tell him I'll do him a workshop
Please, pretty please could I have a lesson on gilding as I am renewing my interest in calligraphy.
The virtual postperson did. I mentioned on the other group that SusanF and I belong to about a HAED pattern I'd been looking at for a while. Well, Susan sent it to me in exchange for a kit I sent her a while ago. She is soooo sweet!!! Now it's off to Joann's today since they are having a sale on their DMC. Won't be starting it for a little while, but it never hurts to have everything on hand--especially when it's on sale!
WIPs: There Be Dragons, Feed My Sheep, Canyon Flight HAED, Lotus Flowers HAED, Christmas Cove
Mabel, when you first said about gliding I thought you were talking about gliders (planes) I know you are a lady of many talents.
I had never heard of it as a craft, it looks beautiful
Midge sent my prize for winning the Countries Bingo - what a pleasant surprise!!
WITH THE MOST DELIGHTFUL HAND MADE CARD!!
Linen, aida and a fabulous selection of threads, including a DMC linen thread which I have not yet tried. I know they've received mixed reviews, so I am looking forward to making up my own mind.
Thank you, Midge!
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~ girls with dreams grow into women with vision ~
WIPs:
The Sweetheart Tree 12 Days of Christmas
Sharon Pope's Gingerbread Cottage
Chatelaine Christmas Mystery 2011
This morning I finally got my magazine with Nora Corbetts Halloween Fairy (trick or treat) in it, so now once ive finished all the wips i got..haha..I will start on her! (could take a while)
Slainte Gail x
W.I.P. Amathusia October Birthday Girl started 28-3-09
Mrs Postie delivered a lovely red and white plastic hoop frame from Threadbear. Thanks very much it is exactly the same size as the green ones that I have been using.
No, he hasn't.
I am waiting for Dawn's cow ATC and for a lovely book Nettie has sent to me and none of them have arrived yet. Post between UK and Hungary is crazy, normally things arrive in 2-3 days, but just once in a while it takes them 3-4 weeks to come. And there was one order from Sew and so that simply disappeared.
Agi
"The world, as a colourful knot of threads, has turned into a memory, and now you cannot be sure whether it was real." (Géza Ottlik, Hungarian writer)