finally ...

Today 

I was  fi nal ly  visiting my dear blogging friend 

Yvette 

We made arrangements for a visit quite a few times before

but "life" always played some tricks

so we had to wait for another opportunity

but today it all worked out all right

And YES,

it was everything we thought it would be :

a long day talking as dear old friends

(what we are in some way) 

Of course we talked about felting

stitching and dyeing

in natural or more bright colours

She had a wonderful gift for me 

a lovely magic stitched pouch

and a huge piece of eco-dyed silk

The féél of that pouch ... and the stitches on it

:-)

(little highlighted marks on the back)

Mmmmmmm so happy with it, Yvette !!!

Now I can finally show what I made for Yvette :

for her I made the-very-first-ever "Rainbow pot", a blue one,

with some green sparkles inside 

(a tiny "pot of gold" at the end of the rainbow ?)

(mmmmm, Yvette can use that when the pain hurts her badly)

Here it is with some of  its friend that followed

(because I got a bit carried away with that first little pot)

But because Yvette and I "met"at Jude's Spirit cloth place

(and Jude = stitch for me)

there had to be a lot of stitches on the pot

Thén the first choice of beads had to come off

but finally :

all finished.

(I don't think it was a coincidence that blue is Yvette's favourite colour ...) 

Yvette,

THANK YOU

for a lovely day

X

colourful !!!

What would the world be without 

colour ?

(Oh, but I do love an etching, or a pen drawing ...)

At some point when making art with colour

I realized I always somehow wanted to include 

all the colours of the rainbow.

(so the name of my blog is no coincidence either)

I also love brightly coloured shoes.

So when last week a dear friend visited us

and told me she bought some pink shoes ...

on top of that of our favourite brand ...

I went to town the very next day !

Ha, they still had a pair in my size !!!

(Mmmmm so soft, so they wear like slippers!)

*

When making my little felted pots

you might have noticed that each new pot 

had a different colour

...

After the last yellow/green one, with the "snail" on top, came :

a red one !

... and then ...

a green one, still in the making,

...

But now I have a full rainbow of 

"rainbow pots"

YES !

I love colour !

a curl, a spike, a bead ...

In fact 

I should have been visiting a blogging-friend Yvette today ...

But, as there were some minor problems, 

we postponed the visit for a week

;-)

 looking forward to it !

So here are some other little "rainbow pots"

It's a lot of fun to think about the combination of colours.

Though a lot of it disappears,

some of the previous colours blend with the colour of the outer layer.

Then there's the choice 

what to put on top or the sides of the little pot

This one turned out to look like a starfish I think.

(I really like how the gradient on those tiny points turned out)

A bead on top or at the sides, a curl,

or a big bead on top ...

Every choice requires a different approach.

Oh yes : can't get enough of it !

This long spike will turn into a 

...

snail ?

*

And when daughter visits with her youngest

(and stays for dinner)

I get the best help there is !!!

;-)