Gone home

Our visitor has gone home, the house is quiet and
we don't have a shadow every time we move!

I got these as a thank you. I love tulips. I shall miss the walks

and the company.

It'll be strange tomorrow without him.

ATC swop, Autumn Angel

Last summer I read Susan Lenz' Cyber Fyber Exhibition blog and

decided it would be good to take part. Do read all about it, I'm not

even going to begin to try and tell you all about it, I couldn't begin to

do it justice.I received this ATC in returnfor one of my creations,

number 159 (scroll down to find it). Have a good look at the blog,

there's loads of great textile art to see.

A brilliant job. Well done, Susan.

I took an opportunity to take part in a 'Trees' challenge last year.

One of the rules was that the piece should mostly be hand

stitched, so mine was mainly done by machine.

This is the fabric, organza embellished with more organza

and wool tops then machine embroidered with appropriate

text.

It was going to be a fairy but I used the wrong wings!

The construction wasn't difficult, decisions just needed to

be made. Firstly, the face. It took me ages to find a stamp

that I could use again and again. A stamp was needed

as I can't draw people or any part of a person. I chose the

sleeping face, it seemed appropriate for autumn, things

going to sleep/hibernation for the winter. I also wanted to

keep it simple, no hair!

The wings are rather heavy looking but I wanted her to all be

made from the same fabric. I used butterfly style markings

on the angel wings.

The arms and legs are made from kiddies pipe cleaners.

They were thicker than normal pipe cleaners and are just

wrapped with various yarns to cover the white.

As I've already said I'm no good at bodies or their parts

so the hands and feet are represented by simple stylised

shapes.

I made a body shape to hold the body covering and to attach

the legs. I didn't take photos as it all evolved rather quickly

and the dog didn't get his afternoon walk, I got carried away.

The other decision to be made was how to pose her, I'd

not really thought about it. I chose to seat her with her knees

up and shutting her eyes having forty winks.

I'd got enough fabric left over to make a leaf. I wish I'd created

a larger piece of fabric. The back of the leave shouldn't be seen.
I did add wire so it didn't have to be completely flat.

I've actually done something new. It feels good. In fact, I've entered

'Autumn Angel' and 'Waiting for Lunch' in a local Open Art exhibition.

'Waiting for Lunch' is the fishy piece I did last year, thought it could do

with a final airing.

The colours in the photos have come out abit faded when I

posted them, sorry.

Bye....................

Happy New Year

Just realised, something I forgot to say:

Happy New Year to you all.

Health and happiness and lots of textiles!

Somethings I always manage to get things back to front!

What a good start to the blogging year.

Bye........................

Street art, Autumn fairy, visitor

I saw this street art in an unexpected place, at our local shopping

centre. I think it's to do with prehistoric bones that were discovered

in the area some years ago. I like it. I'm not sure if it's fully

appreciated, at least it's not been damaged or defaced.

I made this piece of fabric a few weeks ago for a challenge with

the title 'Trees'. It is polyester organza embellished with more

organza and wool tops, then machine embroidered with text

related to trees - trees, autumn, colour, leaves. The challenge

was to make a piece that was predominantly hand stitched,

but I prefer machine stitching!

I then kept changing my mind as to what I was going to do

with it. I wanted to do something 3d and it had to be leaves.

After lots of thought I decided to combine this fabric with my

interest in art dolls and fairies. It's not a good photo, I'll do more

later. An excuse to practice with the new camera.

My four legged mate is visiting at the moment because

his mom and dad have a very bad virus and can't cope with

him. He came with his bed and a bag of stuff including an

unopened christmas present which turned out to be a

plastic chicken leg complete with sqeak. The sqeak didn't last

long, my other half took it into the garage and took a hammer

to it, the chicken leg, that is. Still popular with dog though.