Fall Felt Owl

 Playing with fibre and using resists (laminate floor underlay works great) I made this small fall owl wallhanging and added stitching and wooden beads from a bracelet.

 A couple of felt pieces made using resists on day 1 of a felt class I took with Maria Friese in Penticton in September.

 Day 2 & 3 of the class we worked on making a geometric vessel.  This is moi with Maria Friese as I get ready to cut the resist out that is inside.

 My finished vessel that looks like an asteroid or sea anenome or something.  It's not beautiful but a good learning piece.

 Our class with vessels taught by Maria Friese.  If you have time check out her work!

I'm still working on my Take A Stitch Tuesday Owl!  The last few stitches I added were the Feathered Chain stitch ( around the face ), the Slipped Detached Chain stitch aka Tulip stitch and I'm currently working on some Woven Detached Chain Stitches.

Have a most wonderful & delightful day & thank you for dropping by :D
Jeannette

Sheaf Stitch TAST up-date

 Stitch #52 on Sharon's Take A Stitch Tuesday challenge was the Sheaf Stitch.  It's above the 3 rows of Buttoned Herringbone stitches on the left side.  I had done this stitch before but it had been awhile so it was nice to have a reason to do it again.  My TAST owl is slowly nearing completion.  This week's stitch is the Turkman Stitch which is another new one for me.

 I am actually doing some cross stitch.  I love cross stitch patterns and love how it looks but it's not my favourite form of stitching.  I liked this small pattern by Lizzie Kate and thought it will be a nice birthday gift for my daughter.  I've already made 2 mistakes though which I am not going to fix :)

 Am so enjoying the felting process and stitching on it as well.  I named this piece I'm A Hoot :)

Once a week a couple friends at work meet at coffee break to either knit, stitch or needle felt.  I've been trying my hand at needle felted gnomies.  Someone named them Wynken, Blynken and Nod.

 and introducing Binkel - another needle felted gnome.

I didn't seed any squash in the garden this year but when this volunteer plant came up I just let it grow.  For not getting watered or anything it's done really well and there are 3 more squash on the other side.  Certainly glad now that I didn't hoe it under :D

Here's to Fall and a wonderful September.  Happy Stitching and creating everyone :)

TAST Owl progress & book resist felting

 FINALLY filled in and finished my TAST owl wings.  It's been slow going but when Sharon on her Pintangle site posted the Buttonhole wheel cup stitch I thought it'd fill them in nicely. 

 The TAST Stitch #44 was the Crossed & Plaited Feather Stitch. I'd done Feather stitches before oodles of times but not straight feather or crossed feather.  I didn't do the Plaited Feather Stitch though.

 I'm a bit behind so the next stitch I'm working on is a few rows of Portuguese Border Stitch.

 I've continued to do a bit of felting and managed my first felted vessel with a book resist using pages.  Terri Berry posted a detailed tutorial on how to make one and I'll definitely try another.

 Another little felted vessel just using 1 round piece of plastic as a resist.

My poppies are blooming beautifully right now!  Wish they lasted for more than a few days though.

Have a lovely, beautiful and fine, fine day :)

Felting & the Eastern Stitch

I tried my hand at making a wet felted vessel using a resist.  It was too thin in spots so I needle felted an owl and added stitches to it as well. So that it would sit well I cut the bottom off of a plastic bottle and put it inside.  Looks MUCH better now than it did at first.

Here I laid out some roving and did a bit of needle felting as well.  Next step is to wet felt it and hope everything stays in place. 

This is the card I made for my mum for Mother's Day.  The free pattern is available from Happiness is Cross Stitching.

Cloud Filling Stitch was the Take A Stitch Tuesday (TAST) Week 38 stitch on Sharon's Pintangle site. The idea on what pattern to make with this stitch came from Annet's Fat-Quarter blog. I was very pleased on how nice this stitch looked and it wasn't too complicated either.

My TAST Owl slowly but surely filling in.

Another new stitch for me was this Eastern Stitch - the week 41 TAST stitch.  I'm going to do a few more and then I'll begin this week's TAST stitch which is the Fern Stitch.

Yesterday this beautiful Yellow-rumped Warbler flew down right by the window.  Thankfully it stayed still long enough for me to get this photo :D

Thank you for stopping by and wishing everyone a creative rest of the month.

Vandyke Stitched Beak

 Stitch #28 on Sharon's Take A Stitch Tuesday was the Vandyke stitch.  This was a completely new stitch for me and I'm very glad that my TAST owl finally has a beak!

 I cut some holes in this resist dyed felted piece for an exercise in what if and why not.  I buttonhole stitched around the holes and added running stitches and beads and cross stitches.  I then tacked down at the back different colours of organza to fill the holes. Hubby named it Flight Among the Planets.  I certainly enjoyed stitching on felt as it's wonderful and easy to work with.

Have a wonderful and fine, fine day everyone and thank you so much for dropping by,
Jeannette

Felt Stitching

 My finished felted wall piece all stitched and ready to go into a local art gallery show that's coming up in March.  I love the feel of stitching on felt and am absolutely hooked on it!

 This is what the piece looked like before dyeing.  I made a piece of wet felt using merino fibres and then clamped various resists (mostly washers).  I dyed it first in green, reclamped and then dyed it in burgundy, reclamped and then in sky blue.  Now I am on the lookout for more resists to use to get different patterns.

 Valentine's Day is coming up and I started a little free pattern from Happiness Is Cross Stitching. 
I love the free black cat patterns on this site :)

Last weeks stitch for Take A Stitch Tuesday was the Arrowhead stitch.  A very straightforward and easy stitch to do which I worked on my Owl's breast.

Have a wonderful and creative day everyone and thank you for stopping by :D

January Back to Creativity

 My TAST Owl with swirly cable chain stitches.  Haven't added this week's new stitch yet which is the Interlaced Cable Chain.  I hadn't heard of this stitch before so it will be fun to tackle.

 More resist dyeing on a wet felted piece which has now become a book cover.  Stitching on felt is wonderful!

 This piece became the back cover.

A friend & I recently played with soluble stabilizer.  Here I laid out bits of  thread,

 covered it with another piece of soluble

 and stitched around and all over to make sure that all the threads were joined.

I briefly rinsed it under warm water and shaped it over this glass to dry. Will post a picture of how it turned out next time:)

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you heaps of joy this day,
Jeannette

Resist Dyeing with Felt

 Wow - can't believe that it's been almost a month since I last posted!  I'm finished stitching, crocheting and putting together all of my Christmas gifts and they are all wrapped and under the tree.  I bought this Mill Hill Bead ornament kit a number of years ago and finally made it and have sent it to my sister.

 I so enjoy the look of blackwork embroidery and knowing a friend of mine enjoys blue and white I stitched this ornament up for her.  I really would like to do one for myself as well.

 Resist dyeing using felt was loads of fun and I will DEFINITELY be trying out this technique again.  I used the pieces to make into 4 book covers.  I used wooden clothes pins on the above piece as a resist.

 I also used various clips, washers and folds.  Some worked better than others.

 My 4 coptic bound books - 3 of which I gave away as Christmas gifts

 but this one I kept for myself. :)

 Inside front cover.  I made 5 signatures of 4 pages each and covered a piece of mat board for the cover. 

You can really see the clip and washers that I used as resists on this felted cover.

Blue Jay is sticking around and holding his own against the 7 Magpies that are in the yard. Usually the Magpies get the few peanuts I put out each day but not today!

Have a safe and joy-filled Christmas everyone and a very Happy New Year!!!

Whooo's There?

 I loved working on this piece! I started with wet felting and putting a foam circle to add as a resist.  When dry I cut it out and needle felted the owl.  A friend at work who knits and spins very kindly saves all her bits of yarn for me and I needle felted and couched them down. Thanks Wendy :) Seed stitching was also added to help give it more texture and depth.  My daughter named it "Whoooo's There?"  It is going to be part of an exhibit for the months of July and August titled Join the Thread at the Signal Hill Arts Centre in Weyburn.  Anyone could submit 2 pieces for the exhibit so I entered this one and my felted Whimsy Woods.

Slow progress on my crazy quilt block.  The ideas truly are endless what one can do.

Have a most beautiful day everyone :)