Graziella's Earrings

Detail

These pair of earrings are very special for  me because two reasons. Firstly a dear friend of mine asked me to make them for somebody who is very very special. I know that person and is also somebody special for me too so I was very proud to make something for her, something I know she will wear and will make her think about my friend and I.

She like roses so roses is what I did for her. Here I mixed fabric and leather. It has also been a special earrings to make because it's the first time I work with the leather since I became vegan and that, obviously gives you quite a lot to think about... But I better leave you with the photos that always say much more than words.

Lots of love,

Azahara

Fabric Roses done.. choosing leather

Burned petals to shape them

Bit of leather at the back to hold

Detail of first finished

Both earrings

With the rose

Getting the photo right

Carmen necklace from Leather Free Collection

Here you have another item from our successful Leather Free Collection!!

Carmen Necklace.

We have use handmade fabric roses and 100% cotton strings out of an old T-shirt. We added a little touch, a brown clip. I'll post the photos of how we did as soon as I get them edited! In the meantime, enjoy these ones!

Carmen Necklace

With a clip to put it on

How did we do Isabel's fabric rose necklace?

Isabel's fabric rose necklace

If you do craft  is purely because you love to do it. You spend so long time doing everything!!! Why do I say this? Unfortunately I've notice in markets I've been doing recently people don't appreciate something done handmade... And that is a bit sad :-(
Some many of my craft colleagues with whom I've done some markets repeat the same thing:

"People don't appreciate what is handmade and with good quality, most of the people want to buy cheap and don't consider neither the quality, neither the creativity or time spent in making an item".

Unfortunately not everyone is like that but somehow is true that that is happening... What can we do to change that and make the beauty of the craft items get the value that really have? I do my bit, I share with you how Isabel's necklace is done. I spent nearly 6 hours doing it in between designing, choosing fabrics and making the pieces and sewing.


Here you have all the steps to make it:

First we need to cut strings of fabric, some pieces work.

We make a not at one extreme of the string and roll over it so that's how we make our fabric rose

And we make more roses of different sizes

Now we have to decide the shape we will give to our necklace

We cut a piece of jeans with the shape we chose and sew each rose over it

Sewing and sewing...

We have our roses in place! Now strings for the necklace

We take a 100% cotton old T-shirt and cut some strings

We make the knot

Adding the strings, knot and go

Isabel Necklace

And you were wondering how did we made that knot... Please check in HOW TO MAKE A KNOT