mending

 
I found some little paper bags with old used postage stamps,
unfortunately there were no more landscapes
but I might give it a go with some animal stamps
. . . . .
But there was something else
I could do this last week :
another Stitch Challenge on FB
by Textile Artists.org
(like the ones we had last year's spring)
This time by my favorite Merill Comeau.
"text in fabric"

I chose the word "mending"
something that isn't done very often
since the "throwaway society"
is more common than not.

I get a lot of little repairs from daughter and the kids
(two trousers waiting for me right now)
I love it when things are functional again
with just some fabric, thread and a little effort !

all kinds of small scraps
in not too bright colours.

and a variety of matching threads
(after basting everything down)

finished !

Here some detailed pictures
to show the details of the different ways
I stitched the letters down.

That was really FUN
. . .
and now on to doing the "real thing"
which has to be less visible !

a stamp as start

Looong ago
our little baby was born :
a strong mum now !
Happy birthday my LOVE !

Jette Clover
hosts the workshop these two weeks in Stitch Club.
I love her work :
always lots of text in it.

A stamp as a start
. . . . .
but what if you chucked out a box of old stamps
only two months ago ?
Luckily I have a lot of envelopes
of other artists I swap with
and there I found on a letter from Mo
a beautiful Australian stamp !
Just the right thing to use !

"Twelve Apostles"
(Victoria)

Thanks Mo !!!

:-)

some more beads

Stitching beads and sequins for
Kate Tume's workshop
was fun, so why not continue with another piece.
"Rock or biodiversity"?
Or "something completely different" ?

I took some hand dyed (procion) cotton
and a snippet of Kaffe Fassett's "Paperweight" blue,
some stretchy cotton velvet, some glitzy purple
and threads, beads and sequins that matched with that.

First I made little poufs of the velvet
and took a tiny bit of "Paperweight"
(oh, and I ironed a 10 x10 cm piece of interfacing on the back)

Then it was just fun stitching beads and sequins,
but oh my :
that takes TIME !!!

With so many things lying around,
why not play a little more
. . . . .

on a wet felted circle
. . .

THANKS Kate
it was really FUN

beads and sequins

Beads and sequins :
I often respond to them like a magpie would.
I've done my share of jewelry making
so there still is a stash of that.

That came in handy for this week's
Stitch Club workshop of  Kate Tume :
embellishments !

A fun workshop for me (magpie)
I decided to use some fun fabric that was in my stash
for quite some time :
the flower fairies by Cecily Mary Barker,
that would be a good starting point.
So I chose one to which I had some matching sequins.

I basted down the fabric around the fairy first
and started with matching cream sequins.

Then I decided it would make a lovely front
for a needle book.
Now I hope to really put my needles there
because I always loose my needles !
I lay them down somewhere,
or leave them in some WIP.
I mostly work with several needles with different threads,
so I often loose more than one !

The front side of the book is finished (10 x 10cm)

For the pages inside I felted some neat squares in the right size (!)
and in colours that went with the colours of the cover.
I also had some fabric for the back cover and the inside
plus, for another page, some sweet fabric that I backed with some
 commercial felt, attached with buttonhole stitch
with my variegated silk thread.

Then I assembled the backing fabric and the pages
(in the way Jude Kingshott did)

And on to the next project !
:-)