Lovely Post And Work In Progress

Taking shape

Stitching on felt

Brooch from Julia

Hi,

I had some lovely post this week from Julia missfrugality , we swapped brooches.

Thanks so much, I will be wearing this tomorrow as I am off to Birmingham for the day.

I will be visiting the Rag market, museum and the custardfactory

This week I decided to go back to this painting as I wanted to try it out in felt.

It helps me to come away from work sometimes and then revisit it.

I still have a lot more work to do on this but you can see the first stages.

I can't wait to get into the stitching, my fingers start to tingle!

Stitch marks to me can be as expressive as the marks I make with my brush.

You should see my frantic machine work as I build up the layers.

The hand stitching becomes the rhythms and patterns flowing through the piece.

It may well be Sunday Shopping List this week as I am out all day tomorrow.

Hope you have a good weekend.x

Sunny Sunday

Inspiring trees

Brooches

Felt and embroidery

What a beautiful day, blue skies and lots of sunshine.

So I took a few pictures as the light was perfect.

You can see the hand stitching on my felt work.

I also finished off a few brooches.

I must say thank you to Gunnels for giving me an award for my blog, she has beautiful embroidery work.

Have a good start to your week.

Painting And Some Stitching

I did manage to get to life drawing this week but we had a lady with clothes on!

So this is more of a portrait.

I painted with acrylic and used some oil pastels.

She looked quite a formidable character, a stern staring expression.

I hope she never sees this!

To brighten up the page here is the felt picture I'm working on.

I am now adding some hand stitching, sorry the picture is not brilliant as the light was fading.

I will take some more pictures tomorrow in daylight.

Lastly my friend gave me this pattern from the 1950's.

I love it!

Felt Art

Hi,

I'm embarrassed to say my shopping list Saturday took me about two and a half hours or may be longer.

It's official I am a jinx when using the computer!

So I have to de-stress by working on my felt and embroidery.

I am working on ideas from my tree sketches again.

I have used stronger colours in this felt and I'm trying to replicate my drawing marks with threads.

It's a good day for staying in sewing so I hope to show that I have made progress with this picture soon.