3 - 3 - 15 .... the "last" felting exchange

Oh yes : late again.

This last piece of our felting exchange 

was scheduled for February.

It went in the post today.

As you will probably understand the theme for this month was 

"sheep"

Now this should not have been a problem,

because I like sheep 

(though not their sound when they're grown-ups)

They "give" us their gorgeous warm coat

with which we have lost of fun 

knitting and felting !

But what to make for this felting exchange ???

One sheep, 

a ram with awesome horns,

a little lam, 

or even a flock of sheep and shepherd ? 

I couldn't decide and moreover

I wanted to make something funny

.....

Yesterday I started with a kind of heath landscape

for a background

.....

Then I thought it would be fun to change the woolen coat

for a knitted one !

But :

all my lovely sock (or thicker) yarns

are "superwash"

so it won't felt

The only solution then is, to make your own yarn :

spinning

Now I had vowed a long time ago 

that "spinning" is nót for me

(and daughter wanted to help out but was doing other things)

I made a spindle out of an old big whirligig

and tried my best to spin some even thread

(thread yes, even no !)

Then I knitted a small swatch

So on the heath landscape came a colourful sheep

with the swatch and some snippets of prefelt,

which I stitched to the back with some linen thread.

(Like I always do, when dealing with difficult parts

so things won't shift during the rolling process.

I take the thread out when all is finished)

Geurdie, I hope you like my "modern" sheep

it will be on your doorstep tomorrow !

In fact this colourful sheep isn't really the last one

of this year's exchange :

I have to do a last one for myself,

because there were only eleven women participating

So with that last one (something RED)

the circle will be closed.

;-)

(little) step ...

... by (little) step

I'm making progress,

still a bit of "wheely" chair 

or one crutch for support

...

Today was my first day out again 

(to the "Christmassy" Alpaca Farm)

We had tea, coffee,

yummy sweets,

chicken soup 

and talked a LOT
(and did a stitch or two)

Someone even spun a chunky yarn 

with christmas lights in it !!!

FUN !

The last few days I've been busy with felting

little bags.

While Man started with our Christmas cards,

on which I added a little (embellisher) felted star 

;-)

Ha, tomorrow I will meet all the ladies of the year-round

felting-exchange !

We will see all the 144 card size felts 

(plus some other artwork of each person)

SUN day

Though the day started 

with a bit of rain,

it soon turned for the better when the 

SUN

came out,

a perfect day for me, like a present.

There were lots of other presents

beautiful flowers 

and lots of dear people 

to brighten up the day even more.

Daughter gave me some of her homespun yarn and

a Mother Earth, 

with roots and wings

("roots and wings" like there were here)

Daughter also brought the rinsed home spun yarns

she dyed yesterday

like a wonderful rainbow !!!