Think I might make myself a matching pin cushion as well - watch this space :)
I've been enjoying my embroidery night class and particularly the needle felting. I just love painting with the felts, such saturated colours and I had a bit of a play with this piece. It's been such a fun class that I've signed up for the 10 weeks after easter as well when we'll be learning different ways to put images onto fabric.
Ok..... a rather strange, non-descript photo you might think but I'm just so excited! My very own freemotion/darning foot, on my machine!!! I really thought I would have to save up my pennies and buy a new machine but then I met a wonderfully knowledgeable man at Fabric Guild and he found me a new foot. No stopping me now, I can write, well ok it's more like a scrawl for now, with it. I really love the look of sewing machine 'hand-writing' and hope to incorporate it into my journals.
Now a work in progress. I finally stripped back and old lampshade and have wrapped the frame in fabric.
I need a new lampshade for the dining room and I have a vague recollection of seeing a lampshade frame covered in rags, sorry I can't remember where. But I like that because then I don't have anything to follow and I can just get on with doing my own thing. I'm back at the pondering stage now, I could
- make some yoyos and use them like flowers on it
- make some fabric birds
- string some beads and dangly bits such as glass chandalier pieces
- or a mixture of all three
I'm not sure yet so in the meantime
Busy,busy,busy - your bathroom sounds lovely and I love all your plates too. I'm in the process of crocheting around an old lampshade frame. I'll let you know how it goes!
ReplyDeleteThe journal is an absolute treasure. I don't know how you come up with all of the wonderful inspiration for such an unusual project. I think I would like to make such journals for my granddaughters, but first I have to get rid of my job. (Yeah right). I do enjoy your projects. Oh, nothing like a good presser foot!.
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