day 19

 Hmmmm, Saturday already
and no time to see friends in R'dam.
Time for stitching and felting instead.
Thinking about colour and thinking about shape.
but for this day I had one almost finished.

My PINK RIBBON Textile Jewel
for day 19 :

A wet felted bird brooch, with a tiny bit of wood

and stitched with cotton

(9 x 4 cm,  3.5 x 1.6")

For a donation
of at least

 € 15,- 

this little robin comes flying to you !
A gift for your self,
or for mother, daughter, sister, friend . . .
You just need to send me an email at
 fiberrainbow@gmail.com 
and we'll arrange its flight to you.
Bank or Paypal is possible and easy.

(+ postage)

ALL the money goes to Pink Ribbon !

"ROBIN"

 Don't forget
that there will be a new Pink Ribbon Textile Jewel tomorrow !!!

day 7

A paper lies on the table

with little sketches of "may-be" stitch designs.

I found a lovely piece of Liberty's fabric.

Such wonderful fine cotton !!!

NO

I don't have a real "embroidery-machine"

though I can make lots of fun borders

on my wonderful (Pfaff) sewing machine.

But these images I make by free-motion stitching.

The Pink Ribbon Textile Jewel

for day 7 :

a bird brooch, felt, fabric, machine stitching with rayon thread,
hand dyed thread and lots of beads

(5,5 cm , almost 2")

This sweet brooch isn't only for bird-lovers !

For a donation

(of at least)

 € 10 

SOLD  !

you can have the brooch for yourself

of as a present for someone dear.

All you need to do is send me an email at

fiberrainbow@gmail.com

or leave a comment to say so down here,

and we'll arrange the rest

ALL the money goes to the Pink Ribbon Fund !

"BLACKBIRD"

See you tomorrow

for my next Pink Ribbon Textile Jewel !

6 - 6 - 15 ... painting again

But

before I started again on my small paintings

I had to work on the felting - exchange :

namely a composition of all the pieces

that were send to me during the whole year.

I hadn't succeeded doing so with the exchange

of the previous year, with my "sunny" theme.

This time it was a bit easier

because I asked for 

"a red piece that could be hung" 

I fixed two stumps of old Buddleja wood together

and hung the pieces on the branches.

(if you want to see all the different pieces up close :

just click on the label felting-exchange in the sidebar)

With that task literally out of the way

(and in the mail)

I could go back to my paintings.

There are still two really small one that are 

in their first stage, and I'm still thinking how to continue.

So I took another old canvas

and started hiding what I painted some years ago under a new layer of paint,

and I just love to do an underpainting of red(s). 

Then another layer and rub till some of the red is back.

And once more : stenciling and printing

(the first layers of it, that is !)

Because I wanted to make a big bird,

I made a template of one out of heavy drawing paper.

An impression of the template in place, and after it was removed,

and here it is !

(50  x 40 cm)

(19.7"  x 15.7")

*

During the very warm last few days

the water lily showed her first flower of the year

in a beautiful pink (but too much sun for the picture)

the Meconopsis Cambrica (that I got from Gabi)

Nigella Damascena

and Iris Sibirica "purple haze"

Sitting in the garden with all these beauties around you 

is a sheer delight 

;-)

day 16

It's not easy to draw a mandala

when there's a small boy

who tells you to help him with building 

a big tower of the LEGO blocks,

or wants to make a drawing together

or sit on my lap when I am drawing ...

But I managed,

he was playing and building next to me !

The Pink Ribbon mandala for day sixteen

"I'll show you the way"

Karisma colour pencils on heavy weight drawing paper  (A5)

the mandala itself is 12 cm  (5")  in diameter

sold

If you would like to have this original artwork or you think 

it would make a nice present for someone dear,

please let me know at fiberrainbow@gmail.com

It costs  € 16, -  (+ postage)

The money all goes to Pink Ribbon

for research on breast cancer.

I LOVE circles (that might be obvious by now ...)

and I LOVE stones

(in my kitchen)

So much fun being together

(he will be waking up from his afternoon nap soon)

day 12

From time to time we get 

small flying visitors in the garden.

 Robins

are such perky little birds.

Though they are not very fond of each other

most of the time !

When a second one arrives in the garden

he or she is chased out of the premises

the minute the intruder is spotted.

I love them,

their colour, their sound, their movements.

But it's hard to capture them with my camera

because they fly away the moment

any movement is noticed !

But here is one, on my Pink Ribbon mandala number twelve

"autumn match"

Karisma colour pencils on fine watercolour paper  (A5)

the mandala is  12cm  (5")  in diameter

sold

If you would like to have this original artwork

(or perhaps give it to a friend by that name)

please contact me at fiberrainbow@gmail.com

The price is  € 12, - (+ postage) 

and the money goes to Pink Ribbon.

Mmmmm ... hope to see another Robin

in the garden soon.

(see you tomorrow)

the tale ( 14 - 7 - 14 )

Yes !

All the last little bits and pieces 

are attached to the bigger piece.

The tale can be told !

I read this tale in the novel 

"Bone House"

by Betsy Tobin.

(the book is set in Elizabethan England  and the tale

 was told by one of the main characters in the book)

"Near a village lives, hidden in the woods, a wonderful mystrerious bird. 

All those who have ever seen a glimpse of it, tell their own wonderful story.

A traveler hears all the wonderful stories and is desperate to find this

miraculous bird. He then roams through the woods, without finding it, untill

in the end he does catch a glimpse of its beauty. He grabs his bow and 

shoots the bird. Then, where it fell down, he only finds a small gray black

little bird ..... At long last, he puts the dead bird in his bag and returns to 

the village. He tells the villagers that he saw the bird in the end ... and that 

it was just as wonderful as they all had told him. He tells them to keep

safe this wonderful miraculous bird and leaves the village, to never return."

The villagers

telling their strories about the beautifully coloured bird.

The mystrious bird 

(everyone tells a different story about its beauty)

The dark woods, with a glimpse of colour

The traveler shooting the bird

and when it falls to the ground, he only finds this.

But the story has to be kept alive ...

THE  END 

in the flow (of a tale)

While the little booklet of Sara's Challenge 

is finished now

the  f l o w of the embellisher is still going

so why not take advantage of that.

There was a story in some book that I liked,

and now I want to make something tangible of that

 The start is to make a layer out of wool (and some scraps)

and carry on till it's dense enough.

I want to use both sides of the piece

The story is about a mysterious

and wonderful bird

that hardly anyone has ever seen a glimpse of

A tiny wet felted bird with crochet wings,

and part of the "inside" forest taking shape

.....

I made the tiniest stitches on the chest and back of the bird

and then adorned it with the wonderful silk ribbon

from Emma's shop in France ! 

(it will be a challenge how to adjust the bird to the piece,

but that will be one of the very last steps in the process !)

The bright "outside"

and the darker "inside" so far

(to be continued)