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    This is Annie Whitsed's Crazy World a world where I stitch the joys and chaos of life into beautifull crazy quilts. email annie@loopylace.com
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Spider Web Shishas September 9th, 2007

needlelace leaf edge experimentThis first shisha is still very much in experimental phase…

I was playing around with the idea of needle lace surrounding the shisha…

I will need to do more experiments with threads and with working onto a firmer base thread…I worked this sample on one of the beaded samples which are stitched with a thin thread that fitted through the beads and it broke when I pulled on the needle lace web.

shisha held on with a webThe other idea that I have been playing with is using a spider type web to hold the shisha in place…The first sample is a simple experiment to see how the spokes of a Spider Web would hold the shisha on…it works…

spiral web on shi shaFor the second one I made an odd number of spokes and wove the thread in a spiral, it was a bit hard to keep the tension of the spiral this may not work with other threads because the threads want to slip into the middle and I think the metalic thread catching on itself helped keep this one in place.

Covering the shisha with organiza (the gold spots are part of the fabric), as I have done in the last detail enabled me to stitch the Spider Web much the same as I do them directly to fabric

spider web on a shisha

4 Responses to “Spider Web Shishas”

  1. simona Says:

    Annie,
    what inspiration your job for me!
    I love looking around in your site and see your beauty!

  2. Vero Says:

    You have found very inventive way to hold sisha. Bravo !

  3. Susan Says:

    They are all wonderful, but I really, really love the last one. The gold, beady looking things are part of the organza? I like the first one, too, just because it’s different.

  4. Maureen Bond Says:

    Truly unique Annie. Every shisha is gorgeous. I love every one.

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