Peacock Shawl and Purse
Penny Muncaster-Jewell

Some Victorian purses, I saw at an exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum back in the seventies, inspired this little purse. This is my interpretation of them. Theirs used real peacock feathers, but I thought these are just as pretty!

I digitized the peacock feather and then used three different colors of Angelina fiber to enhance the peacock image. Onyx, Rose Gold, and Emerald were used to simulate the eye of the peacock. I took the design and used them to create a stunning shawl and purse. To create the stem for the feathers I used a braiding foot and 5 colors of YLI Candlelight thread (Gold, Lime Green, Midnight, Royal Blue, and Black) Using King Star M4 metallic thread and one of the fancy stitches on my sewing machine (the turkey foot pattern!) I stitched the stem down. The braiding foot has 5 holes, and each color is passed through a single hole. The foot keeps the threads flat.

I did some feathers with and some without the Angelina. The purse uses black synthetic suede and black silk organza, and has a pull tie closure. The shawl is done on black silk organza. Each panel was made separately and then joined together using beads at approximately 2 inch intervals. This was loosely based on the technique used in Kayla Kenningtons Seams and Shapes 918.

This is a great travel outfit as it takes no space and easily dresses up a plain black dress or pants and tops.

How does your garden grow?
Penny Muncaster-Jewell

This knitted shawl is embellished with 3-D embroidered flowers, which were created separately, cut out and then reassembled and beaded and sequined together. The yarn for the shawl is a confetti type yarn. I hadn’t knitted in 30 years so I was very pleased with the results. The shawl is a basic triangle shaped shawl. What was amazing was that I remembered I had this perfect lime green silk dress that would match it. Even more amazing was that actually was able to locate it-I had purchased the dress about 3 years ago, and it still had the tags on!

The idea for this came from a shawl that one of my embroidery buddies (Evy Hawkins) had made. I used her flower designs for this shawl. If interested you can see them at www.abitofstitch.com) This would make a great shawl for a prom, or just going to dinner.

The flowers were made using Logantex's hombred polyester organza. This went from blue to green, perfect colors for the flowers.

This is for sale $175