good old "flower power"

These last few days I returned 

to something old and familiar :

felting flowers.

I like to wear something bold and colourful myself

so I love the wet-felted flowers,

though they can be delicate as well 

like this rose ...

Here is the same white rose in the making

In fact it's two double layered flowers together.

And yes, I stitched the center together during the process.

(that prevents the layers from shifting too much)

When it's done I removed the linen thread.

Here's the one I made yesterday

(for Svea .... but it's more turquoise, 

it was already late when I took the picture) 

The lot 

(so far)

Now they're all quietly waiting till they're completely dry.

Then I can do the final stitching,

perhaps with some beads too.

Then they will wait in a box till the "Christmas Fair" 

(20 and 21 December)

wordless Wednesday

embellisher's "eye"

Last Saturday 

daughter and I went to the Alpaca farm.

There they have a knitting group

that meets every first Saturday of the month

but, this day was additional.

Though the weather turned rather cold

inside it was warm and cosy :

with nine ladies,

coffee, tea and cookies

a LOT of talking and laughter

and some knitting.

We had a lovely morning.

One of the ladies (Linda) made these fun crochet animals,

lóve that mole with his pin prick eyes !

(no ladies in sight here, because I didn't ask their permission, so ... )

Because I still had some felt cuts 

I started with the embellisher again.

... an angel under the machine ...

and an angel in my hand

The little piece made me think of the "God's eye" image

(a lovely picture that I found on the web)

wordless Wednesday

mandala and the embellisher pieces

Ahhhhhhhhh

13 - 11 - 13

it was such a fun date yesterday

That was supposed to be the name of the post 

.....

when our PC started to act really funny :

it took ages to open, to load sites and pictures,

and was altogether impossible to get a post done.

So here is yesterday's mandala

This year's theme are the Celtic celebrations

We started in September with

Imbolc which is the beginning of the year.

But that felt so akward (it being nearly autumn)

that we switched for the second and third meeting 

to a subject more appropriate to the season,

so yesterday was Samhain.

I just realized that I didn't post

the other two

Imbolc                                            Mabon  

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Yesterday I was also working 

on the needle felted "Embellischer pieces"

(ahhh : I really don't know whát to call them)

The mermaid was this far when I left for the mandala group

(doing French knots on the star fish)

And here is the final result today

hand dyed (not by me) craft felt for the cut-out, fabric, tule

magic thread and four very old mother of pearl beads

blue and white pre felt of previous projects

little circle of mint silk (old blouse)

more glas beads

and the embellisher felted blue / green

mounted on a painted canvas 

(size  20 x 20 cm)

animal crackers

Well .... not really of course

but when I look at my felt cut outs

the name is appropriate

fabric, felt and tulle sewed together.

Here are yesterday's fish

in the piece of needle felted felt 

(so it's not real "felt"  because it isn't wet felted !)

After adding some pre-felt parts 

and woolen thread

it's time for my magic thread !

(Although this little ball is all I have

I'm sure it will last to decorate many many more of my pieces)

Next steps will be : to do some more stitching,

paint a canvas in a matching colour

and then attach the piece with invisible stitches.

green bag and more embellisher

Some days ago I finished my green felt bag

.... on the sewing machine !

I found some matching green batik fabric

of which I made the gussets,

inside pocket and strap.

Though I'm happy with the result

sewing felt and fabric together

(in a precise way !)

isn't the easiest thing to do.

I'm really a precisian

...

(the red and the dark gray bag are still waiting)

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On the embellisher I worked again

and finished a present

so :

 

only a glimpse !

Today I started on some other "middle sections"

four and a half done !

wordless Wednesday

bags

This time the bags I've been busy felting 

don't look like the bags 

I'm usually making
...

I wanted them to be a bit more simple to felt

and possibly combine them with fabric.

(as long as cat-assistant leaves my wool in peace

she's allowed ón the table)

The pattern is just a long strip : 

front - back - flap

The rest is still a bit of a mystery (to me) 

Using a piece of net, to prevent the "nuno" parts from shifting

(though my hands don't like rubbing on the stiff net)

This one's dry now and waiting for the fabric gussets.

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The next one in a different colour scheme

just four layers : two for the inside (light pink)

and two for the outside (reds oranges and pinks)

This one's still wet and not all the nuno pieces are well attached :

the silk and cotton were okay, the mix fabric (big dots) not quite.

And my other assistant ?

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

doing some vacuuming for me,

(with my felting "swimm noodle")