...or really spring has sprung and I'd much rather work in the yard! Man, have I allowed myself to get distracted lately. The sun comes out, and all I want to do is go play in it. Not sit in the basement and work on a chandelier. A chandelier that I have been struggling with. This process has been much more difficult than I had originally thought it would be. This spring, when I left off, I really did not like how things were coming together. The frame itself came together pretty easily. I disassembled another old chandelier and used a round metal piece hung with chains to form my base. The difficulty came with the mossy sheet. My idea was to cut it up and use it as petals for the flower shape. The sheet itself did not have even edges, so cutting even petals proved to be impossible. I decided to allow for different shapes and sizes, hoping it wouldn't look too awkward. The wide ends I stitched to my frame using fine copper wire. At this point I could start seeing how it was coming together.
The chandelier is kinda looking cool at this point, with a funky organic sort of feel. Sadly, this is the last time I'm going to like how it looks for months! I sewed rings onto the tips of the petals, so I could curl them back and attach them to the frame. At first I thought the petal tips would hang by chain, but that proved way to floppy. So I attached the tips straight to the frame, but that was too tight. Finally I settled on some attached and some hanging by chain. The petals still didn't hold a nicely curled shape the way that I had been imagining. So with my copper wire, I stitched up the sides, hoping that the introduction of metal would provide just enough stiffness.
At this point, he chandelier is just looking messy to me and and I'm feeling pretty frustrated. So I decide to take a bit of a break and get back to it later. I had no idea that my break would last for months!
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