Joy Of Stitching

My first attempt a needle felting this week. I bought a kit in the show at the nec from Little Gem Knits . ( Take a peak at their website - there are some lovely kits there ). I am enjoying making it up. I'm doing it by hand which seemed fun for a while, bashing away at the foam with my hand held needle puncher. It seemed good for channeling any anger. At least for the first few minutes. It's coming along slowly. But it has helped me make a decision. Well two decisions. One, I've decided I very much like felting and the posibilities it opens up. And two. If I'm going to be Needle felting I want a needle felting machine- please. (Did you hear that Santa?)  Above my felting work so far And Below what it should look like when it's finished! I've been busy collecting goodies ready for my crafty experiments. I took the wooden printing blocks I had bought at the Hobbycrafts  Show at the NEC  ( This link is for the 2014 show) .along to Quilting

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Here my Stitching friends, is one of the ch ch changes....that I have been talking about on my Joyofquilting blog. I have decided to create a blog devoted to my personal stitching exploits. Some of you may be familiar with my Joyofquilting blog... it's a blog I created to run alongside our Monday Quilting Group so everyone could join in with our projects. However, I got to feeling that Joyofquilting was not the place to air my personal stitching adventures. Recently, lots of ch ch changes are going on in my stitching world Monday Class is a ch ch changing Swansea Quilters is a ch ch changing (I'm currently having 'time out' from S.Q.'s) And the Textile Group I belong to called Serge Ahead is a ch ch changing ME. I can slowly feel a new interest awakening, new ideas and new directions pulling me. Two words have kept cropping up over the last few months for me: CHANGE And RESPECT And so I decided now was the time for me to make a change, respec