stitching on black and white

Almost a year ago 

a dear Stitch'nBitch friend from Rotterdam

asked me about the black-and-white felting

I did for the felting-exchange back then.

I kind of got a commission to make a bigger piece

just like those (which were post card size)

All this time

that commission was somewhere in the back of my mind,

but I never came to work out my ideas for it.

Untill this week ! 

I made five little sketches (no bigger than 4 cm)

chose one and started to lay out the merino wool tops

some viscose strips for the nuno parts.

White I had enough, but the black and gray were my last bits.

I ended up with the desired square of 30 x 30 cm.

When it was completely dry I started stitching

with black cotton and white silk thread.

(I used paper templates to keep my circles steady)

This is the finished piece

and I named it

 "Moon, where are you ?"

Well, here she is ..... !

My dear friend liked it and it will get a place on the wall 

in her new house

;-)

It's well known that : one thing leads to another,

that's true for felting as well 

So I made the next square and started stitching on that one.

bag !

Yesterday we visited a lovely party for two birthdays :

man's youngest brother and his friend.

She was the one who wanted me to make her a felted bag.

So, now she recieved it, I can show you

what it lookes like.

She loves purple and it had to go with a brown coat,

so she took some colour strips 

( the ones you choose your paint from )

and we matched it with the wool I had.

 Because these colours are very different I made a design

to merge them to a whole.

The front and back, and the flap are the opposite colours,

inside there is a double pocket

Like my own blue bag it has a double cord strap

To finish it of completely I made a little tag

out of the good old "krimpie dinkie" the shrinking plastic.

and stitched it to one of the straps

( I'll make some more of these little signature tags to hang on my things )