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...this weeks Wednesday work...wow, three 'ws' . I have to say that Wednesday started well. Met a friend for tea and bacon rolls, loads of chatting then cream cake and cup of tea! We were there for quite a while!

Didn't start this until late afternoon, break for tea then a bit of work into the evening. Just more of my usual strips of fabric, mostly silk and a few hand dyed pieces a bit of a break from the sheers, I've couched on a selection of fancy yarns. I knotted one of them first which you can see below.

Nothing new, just some of my heart shapes cut out to make into cards. Not quite sure if I've got them right or not, it's a while since I last made them.

I've added the usual button and a few little kisses (cross stitches). I've even cut out a flower shape from lace. I don't normally do hand stitching on my cards as they are usually free machined. These I felt needed a little extra touch hence the kisses.

Sorry if these photos don't show up well, the light was going, I took some at the window with the remaining light (don't think I've used any of these) then used the flash on most of the others. Think the last one was taken under my light rather than with the flash.

I'm off to finish some more....no changed my mind I'm off to bed, falling asleep infront of the screen!! 

Byee.

x 

www...4? I think!

Busy tidying, not my usual pastime I must say. Well it's more of de-stash time...it has come to a head. Stepping over things just to get into my room, then there's the clearing the table before I can start to do any work. Driving me nuts!

 So here are a couple of photos of my start. Sadly there seems to be more notes of 'keep' on these magazines than there is 'out'.

I just had to stitch the other day, withdrawal symptoms kicking in. I had some room at my little table-top ironing board (Ikea x) and my sewing machine so I made myself a background piece of cloth. Just my usual style, nothing too complicated you understand. Strips of fabric machined down onto a felt background with some further details on top.

 Unusual for me but I decided to do some hand stitching as well as my usual free machining (free motion embroidery).  The above photos shows the pink felt base fabric and the stitching on the reverse.

Above are some shots of the work so far and as I have done some of the hand stitching today I've included them in the 'Wednesday work' post.

The flowers, I have daisies on my mind at the moment so I think that's where they came from. The work is so much more colourful than in my last post. Maybe it's a reaction to all the neutral work I've been doing lately.

I do love a bit of colour. :o)

I hope to have more to report about the clear-up by next Wednesday.

Bye for now

x

working...

towards the next craft fair on Saturday 6th march at Morningside, Edinburgh

I was trying to make a few new unframed pieces, this is a small snippet of one of them.

 A bit of a challenge the other night when I was carrying my bead box (aka shirt box) up the stairs, an accident waiting to happen I'd say with my box being the most wobbly kind of box there is. Yes I dropped it. Evidence here...

I do think that I got off lightly as most of the beads are either in plastic bags or boxes and none of them burst open, whew!

This picture shows all that spilt out...

  I still see the odd glistening piece as I go up and down the stairs all the same. Think it may end up being like pine needles from the Christmas tree. No matter how many times you hoover up they still appear months later!

I'd been beading some of my heart brooches...

think I may have shown snippets of these in the past. I seem to have made a meal of working on them. I think this may be the last lot like them as I've had a few new ideas which I'm keen to try out. I hope to get them done soon.

Think that's it for now, back soon,

Byeee! :o)

Sorry!

This was supposed to be me catching up and posting quite a lot today but as usual things never go to plan!!
These two pictures, apart from taking ages to load which is really annoying me, are upside down or on the side and I'm not getting to access them to turn them. Obviously need to do a little bit of testing here and there to get things back to normal! Now I've just deleted one by mistake, grrrr!!! I'll load it another day, honest!

I was really trying to get rid of my "Happy Easter" so that it wasn't the first thing you saw when looking at my blog. It really makes it obvious if you've not been updating!!!

These two are from some of the many unframed pieces that I've been making for recent exhibitions. Hence the not being here!! In fact now that I look at them they look almost the same. Good grief!!

No,the first picture was actually one that got framed up. Yes the picture that's upside down! mmm!

You know how you talk about a bad hair day, well, I think I'm having on a bad blog day. Does that make it a BBD?

Maybe I need to go before I delete the whole thing!!

OR

Maybe I should just stick to flickr!!

Byeee!

ah ha!

Just managed to do this! I'm fair pleased with myself :o) These are some of the new unframed pieces I've been working on. Just the usual fabric collages using silk, muslin, velvet and free machine embroidery.
That's it for now, byeee
:o)

Crafting...

An embellished angel, of course!...

...some bonded...

... up close and personal...

...team photo!

Some Christmas cards.

...the usual close up photos, sorry about the shadows. I really need to work on these photos!

They're destined for Abernethy. Hope they go down well!

That's all for now,

Byee.