stitching in the sun

The weather is  w a r m .

I can hardly remember the last time it rained ...

(a week ago some very light drizzle ...

but you couldn't call that rain, when you asked the plants !)

Luckily there's water next to our garden !

So a lot of heavy watering cans every morning and evening.

Stitching is fine

(though in the shadow of the sunscreen !)

Silk, cotton, rayon and some beads on bourette silk

And because I had some more of that silk

I made a cuff too

Youngest grandson helped with another present

for the teacher that he is leaving.

The group he was is is called "the Guppies"

so his mom knitted six (his age now) little fishes.

He wanted to have hearts attached to them :

three silver ones (from my stash) and three he made himself,

of shrinking foil !
(Krimpie Dinkie)

The shrinking foil was such fun

that he made some more !

(the cat he kept for himself !!!)

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Just saw something AMAZING on another blog :
the Gaia Mother Tree 
by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto
in the main railway station of Zürich, Switserland !

(more pictures on this blog !)
and here too !

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 )