nearly there . . .

Nearly there ???

Yes :
for me this means it's nearly October
which translates for me in
"Pinktober" 

Again I will try to make a Textile Jewel
each day of this month,
selling it to support the PINK  RIBBON Foundation
that raises money for research into new healing methods for breast cancer
and good aftercare for patients.

Too many women, and also men
are diagnosed with breast cancer every year
and the need for good cures has not come to an end.
One in seven women get the nasty message that rocks your world.
I know, I've been there,
although it's more than 26 years ago for me,
I still feel the urge to do something.

As a reminder : here is the last one of last year !

I hope that you will be with me this whole October
 

a wonderful day !

Tired but satisfied
that's how I felt yesterday
looking back at another wonderful day at the
GRIETMARKT
A dear friend accompanied me there, because daughter
was flying to the UK very early today.

Thank you, lovely Grietmarkt organisation !
(and especially Nienke and husband)

As usual here, we were welcomed with coffee or tea
and the tasty "Grietmarkt-biscuit"!!!

Ready for our customers in the morning.

A sunshine day with  only a few white clouds and lovely people.

Sooooo many nice chats with old (!) and new customers.
(it's always fun to hear that people are still happy
with what they purchased in previous years !)

My latest work, the Barn Swallow
will fly to America soon !
It will be a present to people that own an old farm
that has a loooooong written history with those cute birds
(200 years !)
No better place to "fly home to", don't you think ?!
(Thanks a LOT Katy !)

My many lovely customers
made it also into a successful day !!!

THANK  YOU  ALL  VERY  MUCH  !

a new bird

In another week
is the last Art Market of this season :

GRIETMARKT

in Amerongen.

It is a lovely market with art and design
combined with a farmers market (organic food)
If you are anywhere near on Saturday,
please visit
you won't regret it !!!

That means I'm still busy with some new work.
Stitching songbirds with all kinds of snippets
is like painting with cloth !

This time : a barn swallow.

I LOVE their acrobatic flight
and the way they gather together happily on telephone wires !

This was the start.
After the background was pieced together
the bird comes grows with little snippets . . .

. . . stitched together with tiny stitches

(Just need to paint the canvas
and stitch it on)

un-perfect 10 grams

First : the Art Market in Baarn was

HOT

 and therefor not very successful
. . .

This was around 12  o'clock when we had just started,
but it quickly became very warm and
though there were enough lovely people to talk to
and some sweet customers too, it was not a great success.
(it was a looong lazy afternoon !)

*

Today was again the day for our zoom meeting
to show what we made for the challenge this time.

The task was to include a foreign object
that had to be included in the 10 grams (!!!)
and some kind of contrast.

I thought about a spool for machine thread
but in the end (really just today !) I decided on a
scouring pad
(NO, don't ask me where the idea for that came from ???
because I really don't know !)
The scouring pad weighed about 3(+) grams
so that left less than 7 for the wool !

Because I wanted to stack them up
I made three resists out of bubble wrap
(15, 10 and 6 cm squares)
and had to lay out the wool very thin.

Halfway through the stacking process
I doubted if it all would work (as often happens . . .)

But it did !

Like a small cake !