Orange flower necklace mini project

I need orange accessories for a dinner I'm attending in January, to go with a plain black dress. I don't really have any orange beads because it's not my usual colour. I also didn't want to go out and buy something new. So I decided to make a fabric necklace.
I dug through my fabric stash and found some orange scraps in various colours and patterns.

 I was going to make a large flower. To do it you can create individual petals by sewing them inside out and then turning them the right way.

 I did the same for leaves with scraps of green.

 Wasn't sure what I wanted to put in the middle, but I did find these in a random jar that I unearthed in the middle of a box of fabric!

It looks a bit orchid-shaped here. I wanted more petals than this.

 Almost there. I was thinking about one more petal at this point, and wondering if this brooch would make a good centrepiece?

I could have joined a lot of it on the sewing machine, but it is nice to hand sew sometimes. Very relaxing!

I did whiz the straps through the machine, much easier than trying to hand sew them.

Another scrap of orange to hide the raw edges and my stitching through the middle.

 It doesn't matter so much on the back of course!

 Now to turn the edges under and keep them there until I sew it down!

There was a lot more fiddling...

 And adding... hand sewing the beads on was very relaxing.

The final product, can't wait to see how it looks with my dress 😊

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Refashioning jewellery

Someone gave me a bag of broken jewellery recently and it was like Christmas. I love getting these kind of donations because they spark all sorts of ideas, it's recycling and save things being thrown away.
The round links below....

... will be going into a beach glass necklace.
And the chain and leaf necklace? Pulled apart into several components and used to make multiple new items:
1. Beach glass hair clip

2. Long necklace

3. Leafy necklace

 I've always like black and green as a combination.

Even a humble key ring can be remade into something fun.

You can see the pink beads from the keyring in this necklace.

 The middle two white flowers? Also an old pair of earrings!

 A couple of the keyring beads made it into this necklace, too.

 Some of the pink ones!

The moonstone bracelet at the top of this necklace matches the other beads nicely. I had it for years before a link broke in the middle. Now it has another life.

 The middle rose of this necklace used to be an earring.

 It's pair was used in another necklace ages ago,

 This fake amber has been the centre piece of a few necklaces.

Add it to the old bracelet and it's a chunky statement piece.

I wonder what I can make next?

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