Snowmen

The models for these were a little sat and pepper set I have. I drew them on my android tablet.

Snowmen on a Branch

Two Snowmen

black snow but a white snowman

or white snow and a black snowman

actually I have made snowmen when they have looked quite dark, when dirt has been rolled in the snow, by accident.

Who's Crackers?

I made some fabric crackers for when my arty friends came for lunch, I thought they would be good to use as tree decorations. I say crackers but they won't actually crack. I hand painted and stamped the fabric and stitched on some trim at either end. I used a card roll from wrapping paper to wrap/stick the fabric on and then decorated with ribbons, mini fir cones etc. But that is not all - I put small treats inside too as the crackers can be opened up one end, treats removed and refastened.

Sorry about the bad photos, it was fairly dark and I took them in my messy studio.

Inside there was a peg snowman. I painted an old fashioned dolly peg with white paint, made a hat from some packing [foamy] material, used pens to add features and a scrap of fabric for a scarf.

Also a small roll of hand painted washi paper, I used a recycled mini thread reel to wrap it on. A hand made glittery card button, stamp and circle shaped cut outs [from old Christmas cards], stars on a rope [from a string Christmas decoration], a sweet, Christmas themed gold shapes and a reindeer stick on.

Tis the Season [TM] and C&G Books/Quilts

Take your pick - I did two for The Three Muses challenge - Tis the season

Below is some old City & Guilds work. The top two images are books, for the top one I painted on fabric and covered a big file, the lower one is a handmade book.

The two images at the bottom are little quilts made with hand painted fabrics. All four items were inspired by tigers.

Willow Pattern Knitted Blanket and Doodles

Another blanket made from the knitted samples which were try outs of new patterns knitted many moons ago, but made into a blanket a few months ago.

TAST [43,44], Snowmen Card

These are the very last two weeks of Take a Stitch Tuesday samples. They are both feather stitches, Week 43 is Crossed Feather Stitch

and week 44 is Plaited Feather Stitch. I've added a running stitch over the last three feathers [below, in pink]

I've enjoyed taking part in these challenges, if you want to take part click here

 I will need a new challenge for next year.

I would also like to take the opportunity of thanking all my web friends for visiting and another 'thank you' to all that left a comment. Happy holidays to everyone! :) 

This card was developed from a photograph of the stuffed snowmen, I didn't make the cute snowmen, just the card.

Snowmen Sketches

My initial snowman sketch [above] which I altered [below] before doing the embroidery shown in my last post [Winter Wonderland]

Winter Wonderland

I designed this picture for the Hand Embroidery Network exhibition - Winter Wonderland. I was to register by a certain date & then forward the pictures at a later date, but as I didn't think I would get it done in time, I didn't register. As it happened, the date to send entries was extended, so I would have got it done in time after all. Never mind, I will put it in the 'Layers' exhibition.

Check out the other entries at HEN, there are some really good ones.

Picture  - Paint, running stitch, french knots.

The window - painted heavyweight vilene, plastic, hand stitching.

Deep frame - the window is next to the glass & the snowscene at the back to give the effect of space, looking through a window.

I like the bird

Blue Snowmen Family

snowmen family hand stitched in a variegated coloured thread