day 21

Little specks of rain
leaves that are turning yellow,
yes, autumn is really here !

A friend just picked up a bird jewel
and the other bird is in the mail to Germany
(these tiny woolen ones are too precious to really fly)

My PINK RIBBON Textile Jewel
for day 21 :
(looks like my garden right now, only lots of greens !)

a wet felted circle brooch,
stitched with a button and many beads
(6cm,  2.4")

For a donation
of at least

 € 15,- 

SOLD !

this lush green brooch can be yours,
for autumn, winter, spring
and even summer !

You just need to send me an email at

 fiberrainbow@gmail.com 

and the next steps will follow.
Bank or Paypal is possible and easy.

(+ postage)

ALL your donated money will go to Pink Ribbon !

 "LUSH" 

Will I see you tomorrow ???
there surely will be a new Pink Ribbon Textile Jewel

for you !

day 12

 Though it is really autumn now
the garden is still green.
(but I've spotted vines and Cardinal's Hat
with bright red colours in our village)

But I stick to GREEN today
Just dry enough to stitch
(made last night)

My PINK RIBBON Textile Jewel
for day 12 :

a wet felted disc with a tiny crocheted flower,
stitched with cotton and rayon,
a button, bugle and seed beads.
(5,5 cm,   2")

For a donation
of (at least)

  € 15  

SOLD !

this little bouquet can be yours.
It gives you spring in Autumn or Winter !
For yourself, or as a present for a dear friend,
mother, sister, daughter etc.
Just send me an email at
  fiberrainbow@gmail.com  
or tell me that you want it in the comments below,
and everything will be arranged.
Paypal is possible and easy !
(+ postage)

ALL your money will go to PINK RIBBON !

  "DAISY"  

I will be visiting the TEXTIEL PLUS FESTIVAL in Rosmalen
tomorrow with daughter,
but you can be sure that there will be
a new Textile Jewel for Pink Ribbon !
(it may be a bit later than usual)

Hope to see you then.

thread Thursday

 

day 15

This is a very sunny Sunday !

We had to go out on a little bike-tour.

There were lots and lots of people

that had had the same thought :

wonderful weather for a visit to the windmills !

Earlier I was at the sewing machine

and later there was just enough time

to finish today's jewel.

The PINK RIBBON Textile Jewel for day 15

A spring green hollow wet felted brooch

with a small crochet flower inside,

outside stitched with cotton and some beads,

green and a touch of turquoise

(6 cm)

A really joyful coloured brooch

for you to wear, or give away

to someone dear.

For a donation of

€ 10

SOLD  !

this brooch can be yours.

Just send me an email at

fiberrainbow@gmail.com

and we'll arrange the rest

(bank, Pay-Pal  etc. it can be send all over the world)

All the money goes to the Pink Ribbon Fund !

"GO GREEN"

*

A lovely tour

(beautiful Holland !)

See you tomorrow with another Textile Jewel for

PINK  RIBBON 

preparations

Indigo, holds something 

magic

for me.

And because the process isn't easy at all,

because I don't have much room

(inside or outside) for dyeing

I'm very happy that I'm attending an 

indigo workshop

tomorrow !

Yeaaahhh !

So this week was time for preparations for that.

On some lovely green silk
(a birthday present from last year)
I started stitching ...
and pulling tight !

I don't know all the Japanese names
for the different kinds of shibori
but you can find a LOT about it on the net.

The whole green strip is stitched now
and now I'm busy on an old T shirt of daughter
and an off white silk "camisole"

I'm delighted to have little bits of fabric
on which I can dye my own indigo  moons 
(like the ones Glennis and Jude make)

One piece finished :
ready for the dye pot !

yippee ....!

It wasn't even as much work 

as I thought it would be

.....

The walls were stitched "invisibly"

(with the wire integrated in the seam)

A safety pin to hold the sides together while stitching.

(first stitching in bright sunlight,

half an hour later all was gray with splashing rain)

When the three walls were stitched together

I could add the last separate leaves

to hide the wires.

And here it is :

the Caterpillar House

another wall

And when caterpillars eat lots and lots

(and drive so many a gardener crazy)

they become a beautiful

butterfly

I'm very happy with the result for Sara's House Challenge !

day 19

An early one

because I had been working on this one before

(but it had to wait for the pin )

Pink Ribbon  felted jewel  19

Spiral in greens

Embroidered with "french knots"

and golden speckles

5 cm

(nearly 2")

growth

SOLD !

A donation of

€ 10, -

to the Pink Ribbon fund

is all you need for this symbol of growth.

If you would like to have this felted jewel

for yourself or as a present for someone dear,

please send me an email at

fiberrainbow@gmail.com

but you can also tell me at "comments"

(opmerkingen)

All the money will go to Pink Ribbon !

See you tomorrow woth the next felted jewel

And today is the last day you can enter your name 

for the blogaversary giveaway

the green one ...

Although there wasn't much time last week

I had set my mind on making another

small belt pouch

after I finished the blue and the red one.

I thought it could be ready in time 

before the festival on Saturday

.....

With all the "ideas" in place late Wednesday afternoon ...

... I could start softly, carefully on Thursday 

with the first bit of felting.

Lately I use a piece of net to place over the work

(otherwise I use two small plastic bags

on my hands in the beginning)

Finding the plactic veins wasn't easy.

Then I went to the sink

(where I can be more splashy with water than on the dining table)

And thank you SUN, for being there to speed up

the drying process !

Yes, we were enjoying the sun too!

But that night I thought that somehow the little pouch

wasn't quite finished yet ...

( I had tried on the aqua one with a belt that afternoon

but for the green one I wanted something more ... )

So it was very late when I finally went to bed that night

but ... quite satisfied with what I had made :

and it had all of the sunny Friday to get totally dry !

The leaf flap close up

:-)

it's not easy being green

It's only logical :

when you like it when you do something

you do it again.

After the mermaid was finished
(I did sew on some more sequins and beads)

I started on a new doll right away !

I had some more ideas in my mind after I had noticed 

that other mermaid on the pinterest board ...

a green man or woman !

You could say, this one is not green of envy, but green of ivy

(that's because I came across this dried ivy leaf in a book ...)

Then I thought about that wonderful BBC programme

"It's not easy being green"

where Dick Strawbridge is focusing on how to live

an environmental friendly, low impact life !

And of course there were the faces ...

the ones I did during Jude Hill's Patchwork Beasts Class

Faces for beasts, for who or whatever ...

never used, untill now.

The leaf, the head and the face

but .... I wasn't happy with the way the leaf veins turned out ...

so I pulled out the light green merino !

(a lot to choose from)

This is more like the original colour.

She got arms and legs, I made a template for a backside

of brown wool, then stitched the two sides together

and filled it loosely up with more wool.

Mrs. Green 

Well isn't it a coincidence that I made this green lady

at this moment ?

Today and tomorrow are special "SAVE OUR SOILS" days !

or here

(hmmmm ... they say : coincidence does not exist)