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I broke a glass plate...

Uh...ohh! That was my first reaction when I heard the glass shatter behind me. The plate was on the chair next to the swivel chair I was sitting on. I had kept the plate on top of a heavy book that was on top of a box holding my quilling and all of this on the chair next to me. When I had turned my swivel chair it had set a Rube Goldberg's  reaction (look up Rube Goldberg on internet if you haven't heard of him) finally resulting in the plate falling down with the heavy book lying on top of what used to be once upon a time a glass plate.

My initial Uh...ohh reaction turned to a WOW when I turned my chair to look at the remains of my plate. This is what I saw!

 
The glass pieces had spread all over the room reaching every nook and corner, making a pattern. If I would have been a scientist, I would have come up with a whole lot of physics calculations and theories about the pattern the glass pieces made on the floor.

But being of an artistic mind, I thought I had to use these pieces for a work of art. So I got a broom and very carefully collected the shattered plate.

 

I took out a canvas, some of my pre-quilled pieces from the pile of boxes (yipeee... I used my quilled pieces this time), gloves, quick fix glue and set to work. Here is the result! All the quilling work here has been done using the comb except the tiny leaves that have been quilled with the slotted tool. The vase has been made by weaving with quilling strips! The canvas size is 32 cm by 40 cm.

 

 

I have put up so many pictures trying to see if any of them do justice to the real thing. Well I would say not quite! The real thing is so much better!

I am entering this post in the

1. Spark Your Creativity Now! Anything Goes Challenge #7 at Pin and Track 
2. Challenge #52: Anything Goes at TuesdayAlchemy

If you find my work inspiring and create something similar, please quote my work and blog in your post. Thanks for visiting!

Back Again

Its been almost a year since I last posted. Have been busy with life in general. Its not that I have not been quilling at all in this past year, its just that I have not posted anything. I always come back to quilling when I need relaxation but then soon it turns into obsession and I have to force myself to put all quilling tools away under lock and key as my other work starts getting neglected. Working from home requires a lot of discipline!

In the next few posts I plan to upload some of the pieces waiting to be part of my blog. I start here with some framed quilling work.

For the double fringed flowers I took inspiration from Inna Dorman's tutorial that you can find here.

For this creation I have used the combing technique to create the leaves. A tutorial by Lin is available here.
The trisula flowers are inspired by Tri Puji Lestari.

This assembly is an attempt to create the famous Neli's quilling.

If you find my work inspiring and create something similar, please quote my work and blog in your post. Thanks for visiting!

Some random quilling

I like to try out different quilling techniques and just make random quilling shapes when I have time. Here are snaps of a few of my experimental quilled pieces.

I tried this technique using the tutorial for rosettes posted by Suganthi here.
For this piece, I used a double sided colored paper and folded the paper less than half lengthwise to show the two colors.

  Then I continued with the fan fold and pinching at the centre to create the rosette. Please excuse the lack of neatness as this was just the trial for technique.

 Trying out some lettered quilling!

I am very fond of Suganthi's blog and follow the updates reqularly. Here are some experiments with the combing technique  demonstrated here.

 Converted the pieces made using the combing technique into flowers. The 2 flowers in the centre are made using the looping method.

I like crimped strip quilling as it gives a very stunning effect. But since I lack a crimping tool, I zigzag folded the strips to create the crimped effect.

Some experimental quilling with open loops. Open loops are so simple to make and produce such a beautiful few flowing effect!

A heart made using the open loops/coil quilling.