yippee ....!

It wasn't even as much work 

as I thought it would be

.....

The walls were stitched "invisibly"

(with the wire integrated in the seam)

A safety pin to hold the sides together while stitching.

(first stitching in bright sunlight,

half an hour later all was gray with splashing rain)

When the three walls were stitched together

I could add the last separate leaves

to hide the wires.

And here it is :

the Caterpillar House

another wall

And when caterpillars eat lots and lots

(and drive so many a gardener crazy)

they become a beautiful

butterfly

I'm very happy with the result for Sara's House Challenge !

wordless Wednesday

:-)

embellisher's "eye"

Last Saturday 

daughter and I went to the Alpaca farm.

There they have a knitting group

that meets every first Saturday of the month

but, this day was additional.

Though the weather turned rather cold

inside it was warm and cosy :

with nine ladies,

coffee, tea and cookies

a LOT of talking and laughter

and some knitting.

We had a lovely morning.

One of the ladies (Linda) made these fun crochet animals,

lóve that mole with his pin prick eyes !

(no ladies in sight here, because I didn't ask their permission, so ... )

Because I still had some felt cuts 

I started with the embellisher again.

... an angel under the machine ...

and an angel in my hand

The little piece made me think of the "God's eye" image

(a lovely picture that I found on the web)

wordless Wednesday

mandala and the embellisher pieces

Ahhhhhhhhh

13 - 11 - 13

it was such a fun date yesterday

That was supposed to be the name of the post 

.....

when our PC started to act really funny :

it took ages to open, to load sites and pictures,

and was altogether impossible to get a post done.

So here is yesterday's mandala

This year's theme are the Celtic celebrations

We started in September with

Imbolc which is the beginning of the year.

But that felt so akward (it being nearly autumn)

that we switched for the second and third meeting 

to a subject more appropriate to the season,

so yesterday was Samhain.

I just realized that I didn't post

the other two

Imbolc                                            Mabon  

*

Yesterday I was also working 

on the needle felted "Embellischer pieces"

(ahhh : I really don't know whát to call them)

The mermaid was this far when I left for the mandala group

(doing French knots on the star fish)

And here is the final result today

hand dyed (not by me) craft felt for the cut-out, fabric, tule

magic thread and four very old mother of pearl beads

blue and white pre felt of previous projects

little circle of mint silk (old blouse)

more glas beads

and the embellisher felted blue / green

mounted on a painted canvas 

(size  20 x 20 cm)

animal crackers

Well .... not really of course

but when I look at my felt cut outs

the name is appropriate

fabric, felt and tulle sewed together.

Here are yesterday's fish

in the piece of needle felted felt 

(so it's not real "felt"  because it isn't wet felted !)

After adding some pre-felt parts 

and woolen thread

it's time for my magic thread !

(Although this little ball is all I have

I'm sure it will last to decorate many many more of my pieces)

Next steps will be : to do some more stitching,

paint a canvas in a matching colour

and then attach the piece with invisible stitches.