Photo of a tiny magenta flower petal made from silk and wire. The technique is called chanhua.

Labored 2h making this single silk petal.

I could not get the wire to stay! Finally did get it working but I don’t think I did it right.

Anyway, good practice at least. I’ll study more videos to deconstruct better techniques! 😤

#handmade
#silkflowers
#chanhua

Photo of chanhua cutouts in the shape of flower petals being spat out by a vinyl cutting machine, the Siser Juliet.

Finally got my cutting machine working!

I did not expect I’d be installing ImageMagick and Potrace and converting images using the command line, but it was easier than learning how to make those weird shapes in a vector program so I’m taking it as a win.

#SiserJuliet
#Chanhua

Warm-up

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Chanhua

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