I am so pleased that my folding vase is finished. Yesterday I sewed on the last snap fastener and was sick to the back teeth of it. I worked out that it had taken me 24.5 hours to make, including fighting with my sewing machine which refused to sew buttonholes on the darned thing and just produced bird’s nests of thread on the wrong side. At this point I changed my mind about how the closing was to be and used velcro and snap fasteners instead.
Today I feel more friendlily disposed towards it. I even risked life and limb (well almost) in the garden cutting down the one bulrush and various other seed heads from around our frozen pond to put inside it for the photographs. Here are the first 3 photos. The first one in front of the fireplace to give an idea of scale. It’s actually quite a large vase being about 35 cms tall.
This one is taken against the wall to show off the seed heads to their best advantage 
And this one shows a bit more detail and some of the quilting:
Well I achieved my goal of finishing before I go back to work. I am a bit disheartened at the length of time to took to make. If I was to only pay myself 10 Euro an hour for my time it would cost 245 Euro just on the time alone. OK the materials were pretty cheap but even so, no-one is going to pay that sort of money for a fabric folding vase that doesn’t even hold water. Guess it will just remain a hobby.
Congratulations on finishing Ruth….what a huge amount of work you put in ! and learned lots I am sure. I like the experimenting with bright and bold design, esp think the blue and white checked bit is lovely. One suggestion, maybe wont make a difference…but I wonder if you [glue for ease... i know youve had enough of this project ] put a dark strip around the inner top fold over bit so you dont see it,if that would help….and keep the eye on the outside form …as i say just a thought and maybe not worth the trouble ? BTW, sweet fireplace !
happy january.. Linda M in BC
Hi Linda,
I agree I like the blue left hand side best. It is typical Hundertwasser too. He has it as the facade of buildings.
I appreciate your suggestion for the disguising of the inner rim, but it actually doesn’t bother me that it is a continuation of the exterior into the interior. I understand what you are saying though.
Now that I’ve finished I can lean back and enjoy it. I do like the way it turned out, although I did have my doubts along the way!
What a wonderful blog this is. I just felt I had to leave a comment to congratulate you on the work you have done. I will definately come back and will also let my friends know about your blog. The amount of work you put into this is simply mind boggling. Fantastic craftsmenship. Will pass your blog on to my friends so they too can have a look.
Anna,
thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment. I’m glad you like the blog and my work. It is a rather time consuming hobby sometimes!
I really appreciate you passing my link on to your friends too. It’s nice to know that someone comes by and reads stuff!