Jellyfish Done

This is what I consider finished, but still a beta version.

For the angelina film strips at the top - I attached some with beads and some with gel medium. The gel medium is staining the background fabric and is showing through. Not a success.

For the right jellyfish - I googled the anatomy of jellyfish and there are tentacles as well as thicker "oral arms with stinging cells". The thicker arms are flair threads loosely tacked down, and the tentacles are "line of staggered diagonals" as in Japanese embroidery. The "canals" were stitched on the silk gauze "hood" before attaching the hood to the background.

For the left jellyfish - the silk gauze hood is stuffed with invisible thread, and the canals are stitched on after the hood is attached. The tentacles are single strands of floss, tacked at the top and bottom, and allowed to be floating in between.

I'm not sure which jellyfish is better, or if I should take features from both jellyfish for my next attempt...

For the heat treated angelina fibers - I made a thin lace and tacked it down using invisible thread. To construct the lace, I used double stick tape to attach the fibers at one end, and a comb to line them up before ironing.

The idea I want to convey with this piece is airiness and transparency - I think I got part way there. Onward!

Jellyfish and angelina fibers

This is a revisit of a piece I did for my EGA design class previously.

I want to make this piece more dimensional. I would "trap" angelina fibers in the jellyfish body. My first trial attempt:

It was difficult to stitch the silk gauze to form a pouch onto the background. The angelina fibers under the gauze was not showing up well.
Here's the second attempt:

I substituted the angelina fibers with some thicker shinier thread so that it'd show up better.
Details:

This is not the final version, but I'll attempt to add some angelina fibers in the water to fulfill my class requirements.
Thinking ahead to the next version, I plan on stitching the "innards" so they are not so randomly coiled, and then add the silk gauze on top. The gelatinous stuff at the base of the tentacles don't look like what I want either.