Today I have been watching the US Open tennis tournament and sewing. I am working on that little spikey guy and the felted flower we made as a group project in Second Thursday (demo by Jan Waller back in June).
I have no purpose for these two things except to practice stitching and sewing...there is/are no deadline(s). I kept switching back and forth from one to the other.
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| I added a piece of fabric to either side of the little spikey guy's face...he also got two double button eyes...still not knowing how his head is supposed to turn out. |
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| Whoa -- waaaaay too much fabric/jaws too big. |
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| I cut some off and tried again...and then repeated that step two more times. |
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| Finally on the last turn-it-right-side-out part a nose started to form...I guess this is the right size. |
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| And some ears wanted to be kept...those grey stripey things are horns. (this photo is out of order, but I am not going to change it.) |
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| I turned that top short green spike inwards (the one that was on his back) and it gave me a flat-ish area to add the head. |
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| Then I took a break and pulled the flower out to work on it. This is as far as I got before -- I think I added these embellishments during a Joan + Leann Wednesday Morning. |
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| Closer view of the "before" area...just a few stitches and two beads. |
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| I wanted to just keep adding beads in a sort of circle and not worry how many there were or if they were in a straight line...just sort of random. |
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| I really like how it turned out. |
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| Okay -- short short very very short break and I decided to work on the other guy...I made the flat-ish area a little bigger. |
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| Then I tacked his head in place so I could work with it a little easier. |
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| I fixed up his ears a little bit...they still need more work. |
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| And I closed up his nose/face so I could get an idea of what he looks like...and that was enough for today with this guy. |
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| Back to the felted flower. The underside is really an olive green color (I don't know why the camera won't pick that up). I wanted to add three green beads and a stitched line everywhere there was a definite point. |
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| Then there are wispy sort of areas that you can pretty much see through -- but are not quite holes -- that I don't want to turn all the way into holes or rip...so I (as far as I can tell) reinforced one of them on the surface...it doesn't go through all the way to the other side. |
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| I like it. |
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| This is another of those spots -- I chose a different blue floss for this one. |
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| Ta-daaa -- this one is especially not a totally see-through hole. |
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| The flower so far -- second reinforcement on the upper left...beads in the center...first smaller reinforcement on the upper right...you can see through that one. |
Today was a good day -- chores were completed, projects were worked on, tennis was watched, cats were loved...yep...a good day!
