day 17 (and something I almost forgot)

Today Man and big grandson

went ice skating,

so I was home alone to do my stitching.

First I finished some new textile beads

(made on commission)

for my friend (felt teacher) Corinna Nitschmann

and put them in an envelope

ready to bring them to the post office.

Then I decided what to do with the green felted circle ...

So here it is  :

the PINK  RIBBON  Textile Jewel for day  17

A wet felted circle pendant,

a textile bead, some wooden beads and seed beads

and a (water soluble) star

hanging on a long wax cord with slip knots.

(6 x 11 cm)

"Green" stretching its tiny fingers

to all sides : nature will continue !

For a donation of

€ 10

SOLD  !

 this pendant can be yours,

to wear or give away as a present.

A token of fertility of nature !

All you need to do is send me an email at

fiberrainbow@gmail.com

All the money will go to the Pink Ribbon Fund !

"KERMIT"

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And what I  ALMOST  forgot :

my blogaversary giveaway raffle !!!!!  

(that I promised for Sunday 15)

HAZEL

is the winner !

The little Summer Solstice piece will come flying to the US, Hazel !

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And some thing really weird I saw this morning in the garden !

Apparently our Ginkgo tree is a good place

to sleep through the night :

.........

you might be able to find the nine that I "caught" here ...

but in fact there were fourteen !!!

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Hope to see you tomorrow

for the next Pink Ribbon jewel

a winner ! (and more)

On this

International Women's Day

I have drawn a winner for the "leap day mandala"

Delia

you're the lucky one this time !

(it will soon come to you in Germany)

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For a long time

there was a knitting project that I wanted to make

the Petal Cowl by Xandy Peters

(on Ravelry .... of course)

But after I studied the pattern a bit

I knew it would be

a difficult task !

There are videos to explain

the ingenious "stacked in and decreases"

But that's doable with a few stitches ...

but with 300 on your needle

.....

But after talking about it with someone

in the Alpaca-on-tour group this Saturday

I really started with a tiny try-out

with only 60 stitches

(the wool is Katia "Darling" and was a gift

from my dear friend "Stins" )

And because it was fun ...

(AFTER  I did a LOT of things WRONG !)

I had finally enough courage

to start with a real petal cowl !

(though mine will be a lot smaller than the original pattern !)

NORO Kureyon Sock from my stash !

When I'm really fed up

with aaaaaaaall this "stacking"

then I still have my wonderful

sock-yarn-leftovers scarf !

;-)

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Finally I received another envelope of my felting exchange !

A card, a beautiful homemade envelope

and a fun little lizard brooch !

Thank you, Anneke ! 

day 20 ... and ... there is a winner !

No "baby" sitting today

so plenty of time

to do some more felting,

just like yesterday.

I stitched the one I made yesterday :

it was dry, waiting on the heating to be stitched.

Pink Ribbon  felted jewel  20

A flat circle with a cotton spiral under silk.

The spiral with additional embroidery

in rayon, silk and golden thread

6 cm  (2.3")

shell

SOLD  !

For a donation of 

€ 10, -

this felted jewel can be yours

Just send me an email at

fiberrainbow@gmail.com

or leave a comment at this post

All the money will go to the Pink Ribbon fund !

I promised to draw a winner today

for the giveaway of my 5th Blogaversary :

there were twelve ladies, who put their name in the comments .....

..... and the winner is 

Helen !

So my little angel is flying allllll the way to Australia !

See you tomorrow 

with another felted jewel

continuing challenge ... and

The fun "Challenge" 

Sara started several weeks ago

is nearing it's end.

All the instructions for the possible pages are done 

and so is the one for the cover.

That leaves only the binding of the pages.

You might recall, my theme for the challenge booklet is

"lines" 

This is the last page I made,

though in fact it will be the first or the second one of the booklet.

On the fabric that I've sewn to the back

is written :

"a line
is a dot

that went for a walk"

(that would have been said by Paul Klee)

In one of the instructions Sara suggested to integrate some thin wire.

I had this shiny green wire in my stash

and made the leaves with nail polish.

(another suggestion)

For the cover, I made three parts.

I worked a bit more on them

and I think they're okay now

Back, spine and front.

I made the spine probably too wide,

but I didn't know how thick the stack of pages would be 

.....

This Sunday we'll probably get the last instruction for binding the pages,

though some have allready finished ther booklet.

Anyway, it was a fun thing to participade !

!
Almost forgot : I won a give away !!!

At Jackie's blog Stitchworks

I LOVE the work she makes and she greatly inspires me !
(well, I say "I never ever win"  and I didn't expect to this time either ...)

Today arrived a lovely pouch,
hand painted and stitched !

with a super fun "button"

I was so delighted I made her a "thank-you-mandala"

which went in the mail right away

(ha, only a sneak peek for you)

Fair

Tired

That's what I was, after two days Christmas Fair.
(though Man helped me all the time)

(HA ... b.t.w. walking goes better now :

today without any help of the crutch !)

The start at Friday morning

My lottery for "3FM Serious Request" went well 

I will send the money tomorrow

(though it was not as much as last year)

The "request" is this year for money for the Red Cross 

to try banish diarrhea out of the lives of small children in Africa

because of the lack of clean drinking water

(money raised till Sunday night  : € 4.328.242,- )

The boy Finn was the winner

who guessed the right amount of origami cranes in the bowl !

There were 

48

(folded by our two big grandchildren,

who didn't know how many there were either,

because I had a lot of cranes everywhere in the house

which they had made months ago  ;-)  !)

Tomorrow the felted "Rainbow bird"

will go to Finn

(I phoned his mum today)

we have a winner ....

Yes !

Late last night I wrote all the names that

answered before midnight October 2nd on little cards

and this morning I let my RNG

in the form of an origami die, decide for all of you ...

and the winner is :

Mo'a

( sorry for all the others ... next time better ! )

Please Mo'a send me an e-mail with your address

and this little fiberrainbow-heart will fly over to you !

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In all the hurry of stitching my giveaway I totally forgot

to post about my wonderful swap !

Some time ago I suggested a swop with my dear blogging friend Sus

and she agreed to that :

one of my mandalas against one of her daily drawings.

She got my "Snake" ( on black paper ) and I safely got her

  "Snow goggles"

I'm very glad it worked out well !