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The top shisha is a metal holly leaf brooch, stitched down with metallic thread.
Below on the left is a broken needle threader, stitched down with silver thread. I've stitched the right-hand side in the shape to imitate the missing wire!
On the right is a key ring sewn with a tradition shisha stitch with beads and sequins added to the thread.
The bottom shisha is a circle cut from a foil lid. The blue stitching at the top and bottom is detached buttonhole stitch. There is a metal tube on the left and right, held in place by stitches through the middle. The flower and bead is suspended above the shisha, attached by long stitches.
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The metal circle at the top left is the outer casing for a brass hook. It is held in place with stitching through the central hole.
The silver circle at the bottom left is an individual foil pie casing, folded in on itself and stitched vertically and horizontally in metallic thread.
The flower in the centre is burnished and embossed copper sheet, cut into shapes and stitched in place with a spider's web pattern in metallic thread.
The 'starfish' at the bottom right is stitched in a spider's web pattern and are the waste pieces left from the flower design.
There are 2 metal brackets at the top right. I've no idea what they are, but they looked interesting!
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All the stitching was done by hand.
On the left I have stitched flattened glass shapes in a crescent pattern, using thick thread for the large pieces and finer thread for the smaller ones.
On the bottom right I have sewn watch pieces in fine silver thread, so that they are almost invisible.
On the top right is a triangular piece of glass, stitch with a very uneven border stitch. Not very pleasing.
At the top is a metal bookmark, with coiled metal cords across the centre. The bookmark is held in place with detached chain stitch in a variety of lengths. This reminds me of a bumble bee.
In the centre is a ring of small square mirrors, covered with knitted copper wire. This is held in place by a blanket stitch, sewn round in a circle.
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At mixture of hand and machine stitching.
I broke the mirror with a glass cutter (mainly) then stitched it down on black felt and used the basting stitch to continue with the theme of broken glass. It looks very effective.
The 2 pieces at the top of embossed copper and stitched in place by machine.
The 4 little mirrors on the left are sewn in place by hand in a herringbone design.
Below this the mirrors are stacked and stitched down with open chain stitch.
At the bottom, 4 mirrors are stitched close together with a traditional stitch.
To the right the 4 mirrors are stitched down over the corners.
On the right the copper shisha is stitched in a traditional way with beads added to the thread.
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