Here comes the Postie!!

Over the past few days I have received 3 lovely posts. Firstly was a wonderful ATC from Dotee, and also a little surprise goodie bag of beads and charms. Thanks so much Dot, the ATC is really lovely and love the extra little bag!!! Secondly was a gorgeous "Pickle" from Sammy. My Pickle is needle felted, with a painted clay face and some beautiful beading. She was also wrapped up in some lovely floral fabric. Thanks Sammy - she is beautiful and I have pinned her to my cloth mannequin for all to see. Lastly, was my 1" art squares from the group I was in - organised by Sara Lechner. Thankyou Sara for hosting this swap, I have enjoyed it immensely and it has been a wonderful challenge for me. I have yet to make 9 of my own red/pink squares, which will make up the total number of 63. Once done, I think I will mount all of my squares on a canvas so I can hang it up for all to see!!!

Dot's ATC and Bag of Goodies

Sammy's "Pickle"


My red/pink 1 " art squares

1" Squares Ready to Post

They are all finished now!! (Apart from my own that is). I have made all my squares that need to posted off for our 1" Square Swap. My eyes are now square - I think I'm all squared out at the moment!! Give me some curves please!!!!!!

1" Art Squares - Blue

Apart from my red/pink squares - this is the last of the bunch!! This makes 54 so far!! I made the base fabric on the embellisher with a mixture of wool roving and some beautiful yarn I have that is multicoloured. Then there was the fun part - adding the embellishments!! My 13 y/o helped me with these ones - he found everything in my room that was blue and gave it to me, and helped me piece them all on the squares. While he was doing that - the 8 y/o was playing with a bag of dragonfly charms. I didn't know that dragonflies played "army" too....... Oh, what fun we had in my art/craft room!!!????

1" Art Squares - White

Another lot of 1" Art Squares!! Because the monthly technique on Fiber Art Friends is paper, I thought I would make the base using a paper technique. I crumpled up white tissue paper and fused it onto white felt. I then painted it with a metallic white fabric paint, sprinkled silver/white embossing powder over it and zapped it with the heat gun. You can't really see the texture it's made on the photo, but it looks quite nice (if I do say so myself). I zig zagged around the squares, and then added the embellishments. (Not a very good photo)....

Green/Turqoise 1" Art Squares and Buttonhole Stitch

No. 4 colour finished!! Here are the finished green/turqoise 1" Art Squares. These are also to be included in my TAST challenge for this week, as I've used buttonhole stitch around the edges of them all, and have also included a buttonhole pinwheel.

White/Beige 1" Art Squares

No. 3 colour has just been finished - only 4 more to go!! These are the white/beige squares for the 1" art square swap that I am participating in. I still have blue, green, red/pink and white to go......

1" Art Squares - Purple/Magenta and Orange

I am in "another" swap!!! Maybe we should start a group called "swapaholics".... I reckon there'd be heaps of members. This is a 1" Art Square swap. We have 7 in a group - we all make 9 x 1" squares of the 7 colours chosen by the participants - so we end up with 63 squares of the colour we chose. I chose red/pink - haven't even started on my colour yet. Here are the art squares for purple/magenta and orange..... Oh, look - there is that "purple lace" again!!!! What am I going to do when it's all gone!!??