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The Sara Lechner's workshop some weeks ago,

had a nice follow-up

with the women I befriended there.

One of them planned to make a "felting circle"

with a group of twelve.

Every month you make a little felted piece

(only 10 x 15 cm)

for one of the group and you send it to her.

And every month you receive a little felted piece.

Each of us had chosen

a theme,

or perhaps some colours,

that you would like the felted piece to be about.

My first assignment was

"Delft Blue"

( Delfts Blauw )

Well, that was easy, at least ... part of it was.

I love the colour blue

... but ...

how to catch that refined way of painting 

you see on Delftware vases or plates ? 

Making delicate motives with wool fibres is far from easy

and on top of that the original piece shrinks a lot !

I took some needle felt to start with and used the "Bergschafwolle"

ánd a felting needle to held the motive in place.

Then the rest was fairly simple : rolling in bubble wrap ...

till the good size, and then ready to rinse out the soap

But ....

I still thought something was missing

So I took my needle and embroidery floss

and stitched some fine lines to highlight the motive

That's more like it : Delft Blue !

The envelope went in the mail this afternoon

so tomorrow the surprise will be on someone's doorstep.

(Mmmmm, exciting to wait : I know my surprise is on it's way too )