We had a secret santa/kris kringle where we had to bring a secret pressie within a $10 price range. Since I've been wanting to focus being a bit more spontaneous with making, I had an idea for a crafted kris kringle and went for it...
I decided to use a technique I was playing with when I was developing ways to tessellate the leather remnants...this is a sample modeled by a 1/2 scale mannequin where I've punched holes in the leather and joined with jump rings...
I have a stash of parts club bits from when I was in Tokyo a couple of years back so I got these out to see what I could utilise...
I had some beautiful quality kilt pins, so I grouped together some of my teensy leather remnants that I've been saving (I realise that I've developed a filtering process where I have a different technique for different sizes of leather remnant and this would be the last stage!) with one of the pins to create a brooch.
This is in progress...I had to play around with slightly different sized rings to get the balance and the fall of the pieces right to my eye...
I stupidly didn't take a pic of the finished piece and I wrapped it all up nicely in a re-purposed box and some of the paper I spoke about here and gifted it onwards before I realised...but I liked how it ended up being evocative of a some kind of a map of a continent, maybe Africa, but open to interpretation...it went to a very lovely person...S.R. I must catch up in the new year to get some photos!
