day 13 + Textiel Plus Festival

The fading day light was just enough
to take my pictures
. . . . .
after a wonderful day with daughter
at the "Textiel Plus Testival"
in Rosmalen

That's like being allowed
to taste all the delicious cookies in the bakery !!!
Except for the materials market, which is fun ,
there were so many tiny exhibitions of many many textile artists !
We've seen so many amazing and beautiful things !
And selling my two Jewels that weren't sold yet,
and meeting with an "internet friend" in real life !
A great day !

But when coming home late in the afternoon,
I still had some bits to do for today's jewel
(then dinner with daughter and kids
before I had time for the very last stitches)

But here is my PINK RIBBON Textile Jewel
for day 13 :

a two-sided wet felted hollow pendant with a "sari-silk" heart inside,
stitched with a hand dyed silk spiral,
a disc, a ball and a tiny bell
on a textile bead and with an adjustable homemade card
(10 x 5 cm,   4 x 2")

For a donation
of (at least)

€ 15

SOLD  !

this fiery heart pendant can be yours
to give as a present to someone you love
or just for yourself !
All you need to do is send me an email at
  fiberrainbow@gmail.com  
or tell me in the comments below
and we'll arrange the rest.
Paypal is possible and simple !

ALL your money goes to PINK RIBBON !

  "WARM  HEART"  

Tomorrow is another day
with another Textile Jewel !
Hope to see you then again

*

Some impressions of our MARVELLOUS day at the 
Textiel Plus Festival

Karin van der Linden

Mehdi Mashayekhi

Linda de Beer

Annek Spijker

an amazing (ongoing artwork of Irma Frijlink
(about the war in Ukraine)

(I think "Bojagi", but sorry : no name)

Karen Pompe
(from the contest)

and my own work for that

(made after the Stitch Club workshop
of Susie Vickery)

100.000 trees and a threaded forest

Yesterday was the very last day
that the artwork, conceived and organized by
textile artist Sara Vrugt
was exhibited in the Laurenskerk in Rotterdam.
Daughter and I went to town
especially for that !
In November that exquisite artwork will be shown
in the townhall of The Hague.
(I wrote about stitching some leaves earlier see here)

all of it

the outside

the inside is just as beautiful !

Of the many birds that are in the trees,

this owl is the biggest and right in the heart of the spiral.
Next to all the extra leaves that came in from all over the world
after the standstill when Covid hit us all !

Stories and feelings about trees and Nature
were collected and written down

as roots of the trees.

All the steps taken
from idea to completion are to be seen here.

Some more birds
(all the red birds in the previous photo
are birds and listed who donated them)

The documentary
(in Dutch but with English subtitles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ta-yE2sMWw

We were really glad
that we've seen this amazing work in real life !!!

preparations and more ...

This is the last day of September
so tomorrow I'll start with my
October challenge :

to make a textile jewel, each and every day, 
to sell for the benefit of Pink Ribbon !

I truly hope that I'll manage to keep it up
for the whole month :
my back still gives me trouble
(even when I have the stitching on my lap or on the table)
I haven't been felting yet either.
But
October is October
so I'll do my best !

Working on the sewing machine might be a solution
so I took put my box with shiny rayon thread

(there is even more)

and made a start on water soluble fabric !

More than a week ago I was still stitching on
Mo's pennant
that was with water soluble too!

There was paper under this one.

(b.t.w. :  the pennant is finished and on it's way to Australia !)

So for now I think I have a plan
what to make of this month's jewels.
Let's find out tomorrow !!!

*
That leaves the wonderful exhibition Man and I went to
last Thursday in Rotterdam :
VICTOR & ROLF
Dutch fashion designers

(today was the last day of this fantastic show)

When we were on the boat, I realized that
I forgot to take my camera ... but since I recently
"inherited" the old smartphone of our granddaughter
I was able to take some pictures after all !

(the original ánd the doll model !)

"Flowerbomb"

"Vagabonds"

"Wearable art"

details of (more) amazing craftsmanship

"Performance of sculptures"

(again : the normal dress and the doll model dress)

There was lots and lots more,

and it was a privilege to see all of it from so close !

(hope to see you tomorrow for my first jewel !)

embroidery exhibition

Today I went to nearby Gorinchem

to the "Gorcums Museum"

with a exhibition about embroidery :

the local sampler embroidery association exists 30 years.

So modern samplers (and some very old ones!)

and a choice of other embroidery works.

For me it was a combination with a short workshop

by my friend Sary Maas

Sary is an expert

in various traditional embroidery techniques

and she loves to teach them to keep the knowledge

about them alive !

The traditional costume of Marken

is one of her favorites

a corset for a Marken-bride made to scale

with all the original elements

(all made by Sary !)

(the back with seven roses)

I had hoped to learn the rose,

but in the two (!) hours we could only start

on the small bag with another flower motif

(lovely too !)

Sary used the rose-motif in her own way

on a scarf

I will try this one too some day !!!

After we had lunch

I came back for the exhibition

(and Sari gave another workshop

for a new group of embroiderers)

There was traditional work from different countries

Dutch fashion

Frank Govers   en  Jan Taminiau

My all time favorite :

Tilleke Schwarz

Karola Pezarro

Barbara Broekman

Malou Busser

A big work of some square meters

and look at the detail : all chain stitch by hand !

(sorry ... don't remember her name ...)

And some of the "Merkwaardig" association work

And some very old sampler in "queen stitch"
(rococosteek)

inspired Sary to make a "Elizabethan Sweet Bag":
a little purse to carry some sweet scent in
to mask the (probably) horrible odour
of unwashed bodies and clothes
in old times ...

Sary's work
(with needle lace eggs and little biscornu)

If you live in Holland

it's a nice visit.