a new year

...

is just around the corner.

When I look back it has gone by quickly

but there were a lot of wonderful days in it.

And lots of new work.

I'm hoping to keep that up

in the year to come !

What remains on this late afternoon

is wishing you all out there :

a very happy

light

joyful

healthy

and most of all creative

2020

Love to all my friends,

Els

mudskipper ...

Pfffffffft 

finally got my "samplodicus" for Pam's class finished !

I thought of a critter

that would be "real" and "not-real"

and came up with the mudskipper ...

(Saw a Star Trek episode years ago

where Captain Janeway turned into a giant one,

but it wasn't the best of episodes, haha !)

Two days ago I showed all the parts

that needed to be prepared first

BEFORE  I even could think of starting the real work.

After that

all I can say that it went rather quick then.

(just some consideration what to do first ...)

Meet the samplodicus Mudskipper ! 

several techniques (8) in one critter.

Here he is belly up ...

(and stuffed with paper towels)

The VERY fine white merino (16 mic) I used

for the biggest part of the body

gave me, like it did before, some trouble

Because the plastic template I use is also white

I can hardly see it the layers of wool

are thick enough ...

Result : a nearly hole ... 

I made a tiny piece of the flimsiest prefelt ever

and stitched it with linen thread

on the inside of the body !

SOLVED !

(pffffffft)

Not so big after all !

Mudskipper with templates used

19 - 12 - 19

December,

and this year is almost done.

Very slow starting with felting again.

Wrapping stones greatly

intrigued me.

So after my first attempt with the necklace

another stone followed.

(love this, so probably not the last either)

Now I'm busy preparing all the separate parts first

for my final task of the online class.

Most of the parts that I need for my "samplodicus"

(sample-creature)

(HA, don't know if it will all work out the way I think it will ...)

online felting class ...

December !

(and finally started

with some things of Pam de Groot's felting class,

that started in October when I was VERY busy

with something else ...)

a first one

(a lot to think about for the next one)

Making the closure

like I learned with Judit Pócs

(inspiration Anikó Boros)

*

Winter in the garden means

full bird feeders

and sometimes 

strange guests 

...