good craft

The jacket 

daughter started on some weeks ago

is finally finished.

(it's not easy for a mother of three

to find enough time for such a big felting task)

We are very satisfied with the end result.

We both made a jacket before,

but that was in a workshop with Anneke Copier,

some years ago and never came to making another one ourselves

(untill now !)

Making a good closure isn't one of the easiast parts

because you don't want the button holes and buttons

to tear the felt apart

(though felt is really tough material !)

That's why she stitched a narrow leather strip

on both insides to give the closure more firmness.

In the end I made the (simple) buttonholes

and stitched the buttons on.

These real horn buttons were once my mom's :

she bought them on a holiday in Austria

where she was always on the look-out for special things. 

A true FIRE woman jacket !

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Under my sewing machine 

the "jeweled squares" are growing more and more.

Our smallest grandson loves to stack them

size by size

when they are laid down on the floor.

(he thinks I shouldn't lay them on the floor at all !)

And when the "little one" isn't using his chair ...

there's another "little one" who is using it instead

especially when the sun is shining

;-)