second month !

A month passed in a blur :
reading
stitching
going to the shops
and looking after Man
. . .
But for that last bit I can say that things are improving !
Though slowly, things Man is getting better !

Though another workshop (by Cas Holmes)
is already on its way,
I'm still stitching on the big circle
for April Sproule's workshop.

The stitching is done
(as far as I think now)
and I'm attaching sequins, beads and buttons.
right in the center there will be a small silk pompon
(a leftover of my necklace making)

I first thought of adding a felted piece in the middle.
In fact that was the start of the whole design
(but I will keep that one as a brooch
as I originally intended)

A picture taken with the daylight lamp
and not ALL of the piece.

When it's truly finished I will mount it on a 40 x 40cm canvas. 

straight lines

The Textile Artist.Org stitching challenge

continued for another week
(yeaaaah)

Christine Chester

who works mixed media, not only textiles,

had a very "strict" exercise :

repeating a "round" shape in a square (5x5cm)

defining the shape and the negative "rest-space"

in stitched straight lines

(first on paper, later in stitch)

Christine started with a wavy shape and I did that first,

but soon had other shapes too

like a full circle and a heart.

I decided to take some quiet gray as background

and why not bright yellows to go with it ?

my first "sunny" attempt

I noticed on the FB page that many stitchers

couldn't stop at four little shapes.

When you start thinking and drawing

there are so many possibilities ...

so I decided right away to make another one !

nearly there ...

still to do the outside.

YES

a fun exercise.

(especially thinking about "rest-space" !)

day 24

Another Monday in my Pink Ribbon month.

You might know by now that I'm a

"colour-person"

Many different colours

were passing by

these last weeks.

Is gray or white a colour too ?

I think so

The Pink Ribbon  textile jewel for day  24

Brooch made of light gray felt

with a matching back,

embroidered with cotton floss and many many beads

uhhhm ...and one sequin.

(diameter  5 cm)

SOLD  !

€ 10

and this elegant piece can be yours

to keep or to give to someone dear as a present.

All you need to do is send me an email at

fiberrainbow@gmail.com

(or leave a comment down here)

All the money will go to the Pink Ribbon fund

"bight shadow"

Hope to see you again tomorrow

when I show my next Textiel Jewel !

day 24

I've so far managed 

to make a felted jewel every day

but at the moment it's getting a bit harder.

Being away all day yesterday

(and it was a wonderful day for sure !)

and having things to do today

(hmmm, it's evening here right now,

but I was in the kitchen just

making a vegitable pie to take with me tomorrow

to the meeting of our felting-exchange friends !) 

So tomorrow I've things to do again .....

But ... it's here :

the Pink Ribbon  felted jewel  24

Small many coloured discs

3 x 1 cm  (1.2 x 0.4")

saturn

SOLD !

For a donation of

€ 10, -

to the pink Ribbon fund

they can adorn your ears.

Just send me an email at

fiberrainbow@gmail.com

or leave a comment at the end of this post.

All the money will go to Pink Ribbon !

See you tomorrow with a new felted jewel

day 23

A wonderful day it was !!!

(a little bit sad too, but later about that)

It was already after dinner 

before I had time to start embroidering

today's jewel,

that's why it's rather late ...

Pink Ribbon  felted jewel 23

A dubble circle, felted together in the center.

embroidered with shiny and variegated thread

and with sequins and beads

6 cm  (2.3")

double-decker

For

€ 10, -

donation to the Pink Ribbon fund

this felted jewel can be yours !

You can send me an email at

fiberrainbow@gmail.com

or you can leave a comment

at the end of this post.

All the money will go to Pink Ribbon !

*

And now why I'm so late today :

I had a lovely, lovely day of felting

with my dear UK friend Jane !

And why a bit sad :

because Jane and her husband will be moving back to the UK

in a few weeks time 

:-(

Jane's first encounter with felting 

was at my house :

I gave a felting workshop for some friends ...

And after that :

Jane got hooked on felting !

Something new to express her creative urge.

She then took on-line classes

and went to different workshops 

with a lot of felting artists.

Today we tried some things she did earlier

and we talked a lot 

about all the different techniques

in felting.

Playing with bits and pieces of pre-felt,

pinning it down

A special way of wetting out the pice

The halfway through pieces :

there will be a lot of stitching when they're dry.

In the end we made one last piece together

in another colourway

We had such fun together !

THANKS  A  LOT,  JANE

I will miss you !

See you tomorrow with another felted jewel !

day 19

An early one

because I had been working on this one before

(but it had to wait for the pin )

Pink Ribbon  felted jewel  19

Spiral in greens

Embroidered with "french knots"

and golden speckles

5 cm

(nearly 2")

growth

SOLD !

A donation of

€ 10, -

to the Pink Ribbon fund

is all you need for this symbol of growth.

If you would like to have this felted jewel

for yourself or as a present for someone dear,

please send me an email at

fiberrainbow@gmail.com

but you can also tell me at "comments"

(opmerkingen)

All the money will go to Pink Ribbon !

See you tomorrow woth the next felted jewel

And today is the last day you can enter your name 

for the blogaversary giveaway

some more black and white

As I showed some days ago

I immediately started stitching

on another black and white piece of felt.

This felt is not as even as the first piece,

because of the extra black pre-felt circles

I laid on top of the white wool tops.

(but that hasn't any influence on the stitching)

I didn't put any white pre-felt on the black wool :

the black fibres would migrate up through the white !

I now have a new tool for the patterns on the wool :

a pen with  white  acrylic ink.

It works very good 

it is just visible and it rubs off easily.

For the white parts I still use the paper templates.

The name :

"Wheels of time"

sunshine

Yes, I received another little felted piece

of our felting-exchange.

Every time there's an unknown envelope in the mailbox

I love to open my surprise packet.

(this one was a bit late due to the holiday time

but that's okay)

another bit of sunshine !

thanks Judith

The little rug daughter made over a week ago

looks just like a curly moon

but it won't stay white forever :

she planned a dye-day 

and it will be fun to see what it looks like afterwards !

In the next weeks 

there will be a lot to do,

so most probably there will be no time 

for blogging

....

Never mind that :

I'll be back

and will show what progress

I (hopefully) made on the sun and 13 moons !

Here it is ..... remember ?

Hmmmm ... I neglected this one a bit,

while working on my crochet shawl / scarf.

Thát one's finished now, blocked, and dry

(but no photo yet) 

Ha, just realized :

all photos are of circles 

So, enjoy the last bit of summer while it lasts, as I will do,

and enjoy the nearing of spring when you're somewhere "down under"

the circle of water

Sometimes it's not easy

to start with what you want to do :

yesterday evening I wanted to go on with "Water"

but our house guests for the weekend

were desperate in need of some T L C !

( that's what they wanted to show me I think ... )

Well, after a while I was able to do some stitching.

Today I put the backing on,

and because the actual quilting was already done,

I did so with the tiniest stitches up front, small ones on the back

and the rest went in between the layers

( like Jude taught us )

And now "The Circle of Water" is finished !

( a bit skew, but I think that's more the photo ... )

Some of the details

You might notice I didn't forget my magic thread around the sun part

and the magnificent "megamendung" cloud I got from Jude.

I like how this un-planned piece evolved

into what it is now.

*

Yesterday I also sent my feathers in the mail to Jude

for her Magic Feather Project.
It's worth while to go over there and find out all about it !!!

( others and daughters feather may follow )

still felting

Yes, the ideas must be tested.

I made a small bag today,

for which I got my inspiration

from Kaffe Fassett's fabric.

First I wanted to use it for the inside

but then I decided that the outside would be fun !

For that I had to go through daughter's stash of pre-felt

and cut out a lot of circles.

Then I had to decide on the size of the bag, not as big as my blue one.

The template was made and I started laying out the wool tops

with another go for an inside pocket

In the end I layed out the coloured pre-felt cicles on the back and the flap.

After quite some elbow grease, kneading and throwing .....

... this was the result :

The circles are a bit faded.

That happens when the prefelt is rather loose

and when you put it on right in the beginning.

( Straighter lines can be achieved with firmer pre-felt

ánd putting it on later in the proces

but ... with the possibility that it won't felt in ... )

This result is okay with me

( although the size I got isn't what I intended ...

but I know what I did do wrong ! )

I don't know yet what I will do tomorrow :

maybe ..... 

I start a feather to send to Jude !

......

water .....stitch by stitch

The new piece I started began as a long strip,

a scrap from Connie cut to a quarter circle became the "earth"

for the fern ( that was already on the cloth )

But then I added another strip next to the first one

to make it a square and started basting all of it down.

Some batik fabric with kind of flowers also cut in a quarter circle

and some yellow silk completed the ful circle

I love circles

( It's a bit like Jude's sun / moon, divided into four parts, I realize now )

Then there was the idea of the four elements :

air, earth, water and fire.

In the batik flowers I discovered a stem I could turn into a fish, and another one ...

... and I had a gap to close !

Then all of a sudden the thought "water" came to me !

Water of the sea evaporates by the heat of the sun, forms clouds,

becomes rain and snow and returns to the earth,

where plants get it in order to grow,

and rivers take the water back to the sea again ...

the ful circle

YES

now I had my plan !

And then I also knew for sure : with rain and the sun .....

there had to be a rainbow

( the outline of the "air" quarter is made by thread beads, including the rainbow )

Something else I found

the "megamendung" cloud Jude sent me !!!

( Hmmmm I'm very pleased with it so far )