Play Day Today

I had a great day today! I played with melting felt first. I layered the felt with lots of bits and pieces, covered it with netting, did some FME, then zapped it with the heat gun. It came up quite nice, with lots of crunchy bits and lots of raised areas with some good colours popping out. I then rubbed some green and purple Treasure Gold on the raised areas. This was the challenge for the Textile Challenges Group.



Then I grabbed some fabric that has been sitting in my cupboard for a VERY long time!! I cut it into squares and sewed them together. The first photo is how it started out, the second photo is how it has finished up. It took forever!!!! But I'm really happy with the end results. (Looks better than it does in the photos).

Detached Chain Stitch - ATC

2 posts today!! Boy, I'm on a roll.... Detached chain stitch was the TAST challenge for last week. I had a background already cut out from a piece I had made on the embellisher, so thought I would make an ATC out of all detached chain stitches. I used mainly DMC threads of different thicknesses, and added some fine gold highlights throughout.

Another Great Post Day!!

Another wonderful day from the postie today. I received my charm from Kim - which is from a swap run by the Surface Designs Group. I love how the edges are done, and can't quite figure out how the fabric is made, but it's gorgeous - all sparkly, and both sides different colours. Thanks Kim!! Also, I received a wonderful green and pink ATC from Doreen. It has beautiful gold embellishments on it, and I really love it!! And how about the equally gorgeous card I received with the ATC!? Thanks Doreen!! Oh, and I didn't receive the "fairy postcard" today, but when I posted about it in a previous post, didn't put up a photo (don't know why - just a forgetful day I suppose) - so here is the beautiful postcard which I received from Anna - which I posted about here.

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!!!!!!

The Postie Made My Day!!

Look what I received in the post today! My page from SueB (for our Fiber Art Friends page swap) arrived today, and I just LOVE it. The colour of the blue is gorgeous, the design and the fabric embellishment looks fantastic!!! (The photo doesn't do it justice). Thanks so much Sue - it really is beautiful. Sue also sent 2 x charms (for a swap on Surface Designs group), and I've posted a picture of them sitting on some magenta coloured cling wrap which was also included in Sue's post. The charms are fantastic, thankyou! The colour of the cling wrap is "MY" colour - thanks again..... Today was a wonderful post.

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)....