moon

Full moon today

or rather tonight, though there is nothing to be seen here

because a thick layer of clouds is hiding it all !

What a pity.

That's why I thought today was an appropriate time

do to some moon stitching.

A very light "colour blanket" done all by hand

( as I do most pieces lately, thanks to Jude )

This will be the moon in the new cloth I wanted to start

for some time now, and finally did.

Just checking if there was enough "moon" already

 with a pizza form

( great template for felting too ) 

and then cutting it out.

The next step will be to "needle turn" it

on the beautiful red brown heavy cotton ikat fabric

When I saw this fabric I immediately thought of a big cloth

 I will baste on the moon first and wait a bit with other stitches

... just looking and thinking what will come next ...

boy o boy ....

It was a hell of a day

This whole day and this evening we have been on our knees :

that was only

because of the  big  felt work in progress!

(and we are by far not finished)

Daughter had made the huge ring of sunrays in two halves of pre-felt

I cut out the ring with a duplicated pattern

and daughter did the details on moon and sun with a felting needle

Then we stitched the parts together on the big base of pre-felt

Then came the tricky bit :

two layers of wool tops that had to move under the sunrays !

Did we have enough of this or that colour ?

(though scarcety makes inventive)

PFFFFFFT

(and in between there were children to and from and to school again

lunch, swimming lesson, dinner ...)

.... and tonight again on our knees

BOY  O  BOY :

felting is fun!

w.i.p.

This is about w.i.p.s

Ofcourse :  most of the time it's about work in progress here ...

That way you can see how things develop and grow,

that's more fun

then showing just a finished product.

(At least that's how I think about it)

So : Work In Progress

But this time it isn't mine, but daughter's !

(By the way : she's the one who got me hooked on felting)

This is the beginning of some serious felting !

a  big  project

2 x 2 metre

so there's no room on the table

First some pre-felt is made

on the drawing that is on the floor

And another part ...

This is the first time she works that big

(but there's a first time for everything)

Although she can work very small too :

The frog for instance is less than 4 cm !

so :

... other work in progress ...