A Finished Piece of Felt............

So in my last post I put in this photo of some colours that I had selected to make some felt for a special friend.  Well I finally got around to making the first piece, I haven't felted in more than 12 months and is was very satisfying to complete a piece.


Here is the fleece layed out and ready to be wet down and felted.

And here is the finished piece.  At the moment I am adding some decorative stitching.

Things I Am Enjoying About Spring.....

 

The cornflowers starting to bloom.

Franklin waking from his winter hibernation and looking for food.

Picking flowers to put in my milkglass.

 

AHHH Happy Spring...............

LATELY.....

Here is some more progress on my latest project.  I like the design of this flower, it kind of just happened as I sewed.



 

A friend of mine has commissioned me to make her some felt cushion covers using these colours.  Can't wait to get started.  I haven't done any felting for AGES!!!!!!

EXPLANATION OF MY PROJECT......

 

Well this picture is just of my tin of cottons that I am using for the project.  

 

A couple of months ago we purchased some new couches due to our old ones being worn and very shabby looking.  I decided that I should have a go at making some arm protectors for them, they will probably look a bit daggy but we can take them off when we have visitors and hopefully they will prevent a bit of wear and tear.

They are taking me quite a while but that's Ok, everything seems to take me quite a while to complete.  Mr JAB jokingly says that we will need another lot of new couches by the time they are finished.  HA HA very funny!!!!!!

This is just a pic of the lavender in our front garden, not for any particular reason.  It just looked lovely in the sunshine today so I had to take a photo.

NO COMPUTER EQUALS NO BLOG.....

 

But finally it has been fixed.  This is a project I began a couple of months ago.  It is still not finished.  I will take some pics of my progress soon and explain what it is hopefully going to be.

Spring is here and so are the September school holidays.  YAY!!!!  This is what the sea looked like at Barwon Heads last week.  Master O and I had a lovely stroll on the beach, a look at the shops and lunch with relatives.

PROMISED PHOTOS OF FINISHED BLANKET.....

Well here they are.  My finished purple and green granny blanket ready to go to my friend's new baby girl.

LATELY.................

Well I have finished my purple and green granny square blanket (photos soon).  So now it is back to working on this..............

I have also been working on these..............

Oh and I designed this....................

And with the scraps I made this.................  

Perhaps it might make a good mop of crazy hair for a little doll.  Hope you are all having some crafty fun.........

DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL?

In 2011 I bought myself a sketch book.  Not to start a journal but just to put in pictures of things that I found to be colourful and inspiring.

But then I started putting in pictures of things I had made.

And ideas for projects.

And then I started doodling/drawing.  Experimenting mainly with colour and pattern.

Oh and I seemed to draw lots of flowers.

I did this one last night.  The inspiration was the patterns on vintage sheets.  Still deciding whether to get out the pencils and do some colouring in.

And my little one added in his artistic expression too.

Anyway I don't profess to be a wonderful artist or anything like that.  But I find this book enjoyable and fun and I keep adding to it whenever inspiration strikes so I guess it is a kind of journal.