Post by caeterle on Apr 8, 2024 15:51:21 GMT -6
Inspired by the movie Charade from 1963, I made this pendant.
I didn't think about how well or not well it may sell, Charade is one of my absolute favorites, I can't say how often I have watched it, and I just had fun (once I finally knew what I wanted to do) making this.
If you don't know the movie, here's a spoiler alert. The stolen gold they are all after was sold and three valuable stamps bought for that money. The stamps are out in the open for everyone to see, on an envelope that the (killed) thief had in his overnight bag. In the end, the stamps are given to the friend of the thief's wife for her little son. He trades them with a professional stamp seller and they go there to get the stamps back. It's one of my favorite scences in the movie because the way the seller speaks about the stamps really speaks to me as a collector of things.
Oh, and the movie is set in Paris
I wanted the part with the stamps to look as if it's a torn off piece. I thought about using white for the "envelope", but I didn't like the contrast, so it had to be a black envelope
I sealed the stamps with the adhesive book foil from both sides. It took a while for the both parts to really stick together, at first I could just pull one of them off again! I also couldn't glue that foil to the felt permanently because I didn't have the right glue. It just dried and the whole thing would have just come off, but it worked long enough for me to be able to stitch part of it on, so it wouldn't fall off and then finish it.
As the stamps are so flat, I also added another layer of felt underneath them to bring them up closer to the beads. That's why I used size 15s for the frames. It was quite hard to get the needle through two layers of felt plus two layers of book foil plus the stamps. When I saw that it would be hard to get the frames really straight, I decided to make them a bit wonky all around instead matching the all over freeform look of the pendant. That's also why there is an edging you can't even see and on top of that the irregular edging of the silver beads in two sizes.
Earrings didn't work for different reasons - stamp size, no identical stamps, actually not even enough stamps that I would have wanted to use - but maybe I'll use other stamps individually sometime.
I didn't think about how well or not well it may sell, Charade is one of my absolute favorites, I can't say how often I have watched it, and I just had fun (once I finally knew what I wanted to do) making this.
If you don't know the movie, here's a spoiler alert. The stolen gold they are all after was sold and three valuable stamps bought for that money. The stamps are out in the open for everyone to see, on an envelope that the (killed) thief had in his overnight bag. In the end, the stamps are given to the friend of the thief's wife for her little son. He trades them with a professional stamp seller and they go there to get the stamps back. It's one of my favorite scences in the movie because the way the seller speaks about the stamps really speaks to me as a collector of things.
Oh, and the movie is set in Paris
I wanted the part with the stamps to look as if it's a torn off piece. I thought about using white for the "envelope", but I didn't like the contrast, so it had to be a black envelope
I sealed the stamps with the adhesive book foil from both sides. It took a while for the both parts to really stick together, at first I could just pull one of them off again! I also couldn't glue that foil to the felt permanently because I didn't have the right glue. It just dried and the whole thing would have just come off, but it worked long enough for me to be able to stitch part of it on, so it wouldn't fall off and then finish it.
As the stamps are so flat, I also added another layer of felt underneath them to bring them up closer to the beads. That's why I used size 15s for the frames. It was quite hard to get the needle through two layers of felt plus two layers of book foil plus the stamps. When I saw that it would be hard to get the frames really straight, I decided to make them a bit wonky all around instead matching the all over freeform look of the pendant. That's also why there is an edging you can't even see and on top of that the irregular edging of the silver beads in two sizes.
Earrings didn't work for different reasons - stamp size, no identical stamps, actually not even enough stamps that I would have wanted to use - but maybe I'll use other stamps individually sometime.