new toy .... new exhibition

Ooooh ... it took me a   l o n g   time

but I finally bought 

an embellisher !

It's more than a year ago 

that I visited the workshop with Sara Lechner

She started as a quilter

but switched  to work with the embellisher

You can also use a simple felting needle

(or "Clover" felting tool)

but the embellisher does the job a lot easier !

It looks a lot like the simplest of sewing machines,

though you use no thread,

just wool rooving 

(and all kinds of other materials)

My studio assistant was having fun with the box ...

... and this swimming lady was my third try

(the first and the second ended up in the bin

hmmmm  ... I had forgotten much ...)

The size of this ??? ... very small

I usually photograph all things lying on the floor :

the boards are about 7 cm wide.

Onto the next

( broke the first needle ! there are five in the needle head ....

the needles have to be moving fast before you start moving your work !!! )

"mother and child"

machine or hand stitching is next

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Tomorrow starts in Veldhoven, near Eindhoven, the show of the 

Open European Quilt Champignonships.

The author of our book "Art quilts in Nederland"

asked some of us to participate in another exhibition during the OEQC show.

The very talented collegue / friend Sary Maas 

brought her own work ánd my "I want to break free" pink torso to Veldhoven.

Man and me go to the show on Sunday 

and afterwards take the work home again.