Another UFO finished - Goldwork

Back in February 2009 I attended a Gold work workshop tutored by Tracy Franklin in Cambridge UK.  It was a weekend workshop and we had the choice of two designs.  My choice was the one with spirals, I was lucky enough to have a copy of both designs as I am going to make the other one eventually and have them together on my buffet.  Here is some of the work from the original workshop.

First of all my piece in progress. We dusted the design on first then drew the design over the top with gold pen.  The first part was the or nue' (gold with coloured thread), then the kid leather squares and then finally the pearl at the bottom.

This next picture is the other design.

This one below is Tracy and I back in February 2009 at the workshop.

And now my finished piece finally, incentive was I am entering it in the Townsville show next month and needed it finished.

The photo of course does not do it justice, the design is 6" high and 2 1/2" wide. I will put it eventually in a bigger frame, as I still have all the material at the back, didn't cut any off as I had always intended to frame in a much larger frame.

So now here are the closeups.

This is the bottom section first

The next section up from that

yes I know just a little wonky there in the middle, tried a few times to fix it, but must be the kid leather in that section.

And finally the top section where the or nue' is.

I then bordered 3/4 of it with a large twist with the medium twist for the diagonals in the centre part.

Everyone who has seen it so far likes it, especially hubby's mother (secretly I think she's hoping I'll give it to her).

TTFN

Arlene