Today has been spent reluctantly making solid wood box frames by hand in a very busy and equally as noisy workshop (a place best described as lad heven, and not so appropriate for little blondes in pink jumpers and nice shoes) but on the upside I've been doing some lovely lace work...I have experimented combining lace and felt together to create a really effective surface pattern and texture, I simply machine stitched some odd bits of contempory lace that I ripped out of last seasons sample book for a underwear company onto my plain felt. The results have been lovely, the neautral colours I've chosen have added an edge to the felt underneath, that on it's own is rather pathetic and boring. The combinations of the differnt colours, thicknesses and sizes of the lace patches adds a feel of patchwork to the fabric that works really well on the boot, as well as adding thickness to the sole.
Here's the felt mid way through adding the lace and edging.
The most challenging part of this process was having to go back a few times to secure the lace properly after cutting the pattern to size. But this could be much easier if I had used an embellisher instead of a traditional sewing machine.
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