A Little Solder

After a long day of teaching a crochet workshop to a group of children, I spent the evening soldering various leaf shapes into organza, using the soldering iron as a melting tool. Synthetic materials burn and melt away under the heat which gives an ideal finish to the leafs as it stops the material from fraying and keeps the shape that is originally created.

I started out by Drawing out some of the basic leaf shapes on a piece of paper and then using the soldering iron like a pencil, I practiced on some old organza pieces. Once I got the hand of it, I moved onto the light green version. As there was only two small amounts of the material, I had to make sure none was wasted and no mistakes were made.

Below are the final leafs which are to be used within the dress