day 20

A cloudy day with a few drops of rain.

Every day it is a surprise

(also for me)

what colour will be used

for the next Textile Jewel.

All kind of pieces of felt are lying on the table,

on some of them, a circle or a square.

It depends on the day or my mood what piece I pick.

Today we could use a bit of heat

(the heating was on and yes : later this afternoon I went in the sauna,

we're lucky to have one in the house !)

The Pink Ribbon  textile jewel for day  20 :

A fiery red brooch

embroidered with silk and cotton in reds and magenta

with lots of seed beads en two sequins

and a Kaffe Fassett back.

SOLD  !

€ 10

and this "little bit of warmth"

is yours, to keep or to give away to someone dear.

All you need to do is send me an email at

fiberrainbow@gmail.com

or say so at the comments, under this post.

All the money is a donation to the Pink Ribbon fund

"fiery"

See you tomorrow with the next Textile Jewel !

lovely red again

Today I received

a new red felted piece

of our monthly felting-exchange.

It is such a delight to get an envelope 

of which you know it has some 

lovely surprise inside !

(even the envelope itself looked good)

It's great to see how everyone 

get their inspiration from just the words

"something in red"

Thanks Anneke, I love it !

I'm quite late with my own felted piece

but the start is there

Lots more to be done !!!

*

These past few weeks I was busy for daughter

She needed a special leather vest

(she's starting with a training for "fire"woman

for a sweat lodge and needs some special clothing for that)

She had a wonderful piece of leather for it

and we managed to create this.

It still needs some thought how to make a good closure on the back.

She will also make a burned drawing on it.

Then there was her favourite jeans that had a near tear

on her bum and knee, so .....

mom ... please ...... ?

So I found some remnants of supple printed jeans fabric

and quilted trough both fabrics

*

Then we had a birthday boy

who needed something sweet for his classmates

(...... halfway the "minecraft blocks" ......)

but we had a LOT of help from our junior cook !!!

*

And because the rabbit piece is nearly finished

it was time to make a new start on another cat piece

it will be a  night  cat

;-)

embroidery ... and exchange ( 14 - 8 - 14 )

After sewing some beads and doing a bit more stitching

on the "fire"necklace,

I started embroidering on "earth" with gold thread.

The big flat glass bead that's in the middle of the pendant

also has some golden shimmer in it.

Around all the "holes" I sewed golden seed beads

I love the way the pendant looks like a little woman :

mother earth  !

I also did the ends of the cord

Embroidery on felt is big fun

and variegated thread is one of my favourites :

a new brooch with button and beads felted in.

*

Today came another little felting piece of our monthly 

exchange

Something to hang, in red !

Isn't it wonderful that Jolanda also found a beautyful card

that goes soooooo well with it !!!

Lóve the light shining through 

THANKS  Jolanda ! 

a fun day

 

Yesterday

the Easter Bunny had a lot of fun

hiding the chocolate eggs,

this time for real.

 

Though there were drops of rain through the day

that didn't interfere

with the "big search"

 

 

For the little one it was all new

and he didn't quite understand what

big sister and big brother were doing all the time :

he liked his little basket

but didn't want anything in it

 

and threw the egg out as soon as

it was put in his basket.

 

Mister Bunny had an easy job hiding the eggs :

the garden is lush and green already.

 

HA !

you may not see his face clearly

but due to the raindrops

a slug

had climbed on top of one of the eggs

(yuk)

.....

 

After the first bite

 

the little one liked what "Easter eggs" tasts like.

 

*

 

Today I received my next

RED

piece of the felting-exchange

 

Ahhh, so sorry it doesn't fit my wrist ...

 

It came with a lovely card in colour

 

Thanks very much Joke !

 

 

(my own piece I'll have to send  this month

is a bit late due to the nasty encounter with the knife,

but will now soon be ready)

the bigger piece (14 - 1 - 14)

I promised to tell about the bigger piece that I made

after starting the year with smaller work.

When the green collar was finally finished

(after all the setback)

I wanted to start another collar/shawl.

With the green collar I tried several things in this one piece :

like inclusions, nuno and different threads on the surface.

Now I just took some pieces of needle felt

that I bought at Hawar's (móre than a year ago)

There I bought a bit of red, magenta, pink and orange.

I wasn't satisfied with the pattern of the green collar either.

Felt can be rather "stiff".

It doesn't have the "flow" (flexibility)

some other fabrics have.

That's not a problem ...

as long as you deal with that caracteristic feature.

That's why I wanted to shape the collar

around a torso-like pattern.

I wanted two layers,

I wanted leaves,

I wanted points.

Two layers, and rolling wet felt means : shifting

and thát, I didn't want.

So I had to do a lot of sewing together with a running stitch.

Leaves, layers, everything !

A LOT of preparations, but it paid off at the end.

... and where would we be without the magical bubble wrap ...

Un-picking the linen threads was a lot of work too

.....

but finally

......

was  this  the reward  !

;-)