Blog 415
I have been sewing at Suzette’s again and I love going
because, apart from the excellent company, I am surrounded by such inspiring work.
I have learned so much from the others who have years of embroidery knowledge
and experience behind them. Here are their works in progress.
Peggy’s butterflies
Detail
Pat’s waterfowl
Suzette’s composition
Being surrounded by embroidery didn’t stop me from felting
this week though! I have an order for several pictures with felted houses; these
will be Christmas gifts so I needed to get on with them. Once the bags of
colours were beside me I was raring to go and I started to mash fibres on my embellishing
machine. Instead of trying to make individual squares to a certain size, I
decided to try to make one large piece of felt this time and to cut it down
into smaller squares. And we are talking small this time. These squares are 2”!!
(Note to self: don’t cut the squares to the required size until the houses have
been felted. The felting process distorts the square!)
Felting wools
Needle felting
Background squares
Basic houses
Stitch detail
Second set
A third set of 9 is made up of larger 3” squares. This is a
work in progress and hopefully I will be able to show them framed next time.
Third set
Stitch detail
The weather is altering now as we
settle into a colourful autumn and the cats certainly know where to find
comfort and warmth. Here they are in their usual places beside the log fire doing
their barely-synchronised grooming!
Autumn
This week I managed to find a
rainbow for my finger. I just love it!
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