Trees, Drawn and Embroidered

above - the background and 'white' trees were done on a gelli plate, the other tree was drawn on my android tablet.

We had a get together with my arty friends to make Christmas decorations using embroidery. I seem to have Christmas trees on my mind. It is still WIP as I'm not sure how I want to finish it yet. The two ideas I have is to cut close to the outer edge of the sewing and back it with fabric or get a little oval embroidery frame to hang it in.

And this is a section of my tree in the living room.

Doodlewash Catch Up

Toys

Mouse

Tree

Candles

Happy Holidays

Christmas Tree

My two year old Grandson did this with a bit of help from mum.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Christmas Tags and Lanterns

Fabric tags, machine stitched and decorated with sequins, beads, braid etc

I actually saved these images from last December because I forgot to post them before Christmas.

Also had a workshop with friends where we made Christmas lanterns from paper and card.

Fabric Christmas Trees

I went to a workshop at a friends shortly before Christmas and we made little Christmas trees from fabric. The patchwork trees are stuffed with wadding, have dowelling for a trunk and empty thread reels are used to keep them upright. I used braid for extra decoration.

Christmas Trees

Christmas Tree Tag

I made this at a play day the other week. Well I didn't really make it, I just decorated it. Helen had pre-made the blank tags before we got there. Needs a hole and ribbon to finish.

TAW - Christmas Tree, and Houses

Take a Word challenge - the theme is 'Seasons Greetings! - design a card for the season or New Year. Drawn on a tablet.

Spot the differences?

Happy Holidays everyone!

Five Wheeled Bicycle, Bags of Tree

I went to Beamish again yesterday and saw this five wheeled bike with baskets, like a penny farthing with four stabilisers. It was probably ridden by a woman wearing long skirts. It looks great but must have been really hard work and the brakes did not look too effective.

Today I went to Durham. I have never seen a Christmas tree like this before, have you? It was made from recycled plastic carry bags. It looked like a heap of rubbish but I have since seen pictures of it lit up and it looked very effective.

I also came across this sculpture called 'The Journey' by Fenwick Lawson

It is a tribute to the story of St.Cuthbert's coffin which went on a long journey from Lindisfarne to Durham in the 10th century.

Snowflake Design and Christmas Trees

This is the fabric design I have done for Spoonflower's snowflake contest. I know a snowflake should have six points - but this developed from a doodle and I thought it looked like a snowflake so I used it. I have noticed that the BBC are using an eight pointed snowflake this year......

Voting is on now. This link works for me for all the snowflake entries, hope it does for you, but if not - go to the Spoonflower site and look for the weekly contest.

We got a new artificial tree this year, the old one fell down last year... it is very old. This one looks nice when the lights are on, more of them show up than they did on the last tree.

This is a reindeer I've had for a while which I like, one shot taken with the flash and one without.

This is my new tree ornament this year, a cute squirrel.

My son gave me the tree below to put in the conservatory. I was actually thinking of not having a tree at all this year, but now I have two.

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

A variety of Christmas trees. 

Below is an altered version of the original pen drawing above, I've also included an image of children from The Graphics Fairy

and a Christmas cactus

more trees