daffodils !

For me spring equals daffodils !

The birthday of our daughter (a week ago)

always is a good measuring point :

I remember coming home with her from the hospital

seeing all the daffodils along the roads and in the gardens

in full bloom

Last Saturday I had a wonderful felting day with my English friend J

who only recently started felting

but is really having a go at it, taking an on-line course,

making all kinds of things,

whenever she finds the time, next to her busy day job.

Though I work alone (or with daughter) most of the time

felting together gives a lot of inspiration

The idea for this bag was in my head for some time ...

since the daffodils started blooming

I often try something new ....

but that doesn't always work out the way I think, or want it to ...

I soon realized that the cord stems

would not easily attach to the laid-out background

hmmmmmm

.....

a bit of helping stitches with linen thread perhaps ?

(cheating a bit, but that did the trick

and was also needed for the flower on the flap)

(yuk ! ... that pink towel under the work !)

A bit of work on Sunday and today was needed to finish the job

It is drying now with a towel inside

and ...

some stitches on the flower so it dries the way I want

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(will draw the winner of the leap-day mandala in two days ....)