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| My camera doesn't like taking selfies, so sorry for the bad quality, I had to use my phone |
I recently made a tatted mask. Tatting is a wonderful way to create lace, or, as in this case, lacey things. I made this mask following
Totus Mel's Tutorial for her flower pendant and joining the flowers together at the corners, creating the mask shape as I went along, by holding the thing to my face every once in a while. It's made up of 12 joined flowers.
The only problem: it was too soft to properly stay on my face. So I decided to give my mask something I have had to wear for years: braces. First, I tried to slide some crafting wire into the little knots - painfully ineffective, I had made them too tight and the wire was too bendy to go through. So, I took up my needle and some thin, black thread (closest in colour to the grey of the mask) and sewed the wire onto the backside. It took time. A lot of time.
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| My camera also doesn't seem to like close-ups, so sorry for the blurriness |
I din't want to underwire the whole thing if I didn't have to, so I started with the top edge and the central flower and tried it on. It fit as well as I could wish, so I sewed on two ribbons to tie it on and called it a day.
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| Can you see the brass wire that runs along the top ege and the central flower? |
I made the ribbons quite short since I was sure I wouldn't want to tie any knots with them, for the pictures I joined them with a pin. I am thinking of putting in a snap fastener. What do you think?
