balls

Early May we had the Stitch Club workshop by (the Dutch)
Mirjam Gielen
making a six-segment object.

I chose some purples from my stash
and special fabric I bought last year on a textile fair.

Then came the fun part to decorate them.
On the turquoise one I started with woven picots
(always so much fun to make)
and then I added seed beads in the colours of the hexagons.

For number two I decided on stacked running stitch.

Of course a running stitch is easy BUT
if you want them really close together a lot more is asked.
And you can only do a few rounds with one length of thread . . .
so filling this ball took "ages" !!!
The different reds go nicely with the purple.

More than halfway down I changed the pattern
into small dots.

After this workshop we had some "quiet time"
and, to be honest I liked that very much.
As a Stitch Club member from the very start
I'm amazed in how many workshop I participated !
(and to be even more honest : not everything is finished,

there are still quite a few WIPs to be considered   :-/  )

This last week we had something new and fun though :
zoom sessions with a lot of SC members from all over the world

and it was so much FUN to see each other and stitch a bit together !
Those were wonderful events
a fantastic STITCH COMMUNITY !

friday faces

Just two small faces to show :

the Emma Cassi workshop of Stitch Club
was masks / faces in beads.

They "should" be bigger,
but I liked the brooch size more.

(on to the next one !)

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  !

;-)