Joy Of Stitching

I learnt a wonderful crafting lesson from an eight year old last week. My eight year old neighbour Sophie call over to see my dog Daisy. I had just poured out some paint ready to try using my new wooden stamps. I had carefully chosen two colours of paint and three of my precious new stamps. So I gave Sohpie three choices. 1. Stay and play with the dog. 2. Go home and call again. 3. Come to my workroom to try stamping on fabric. Sophie didn't hesitate. Option 2 was a complete non starter. Option 1 - well she figured she could play with Daisy anytime. And so she skipped happily behind me into my work room. Now, I don't know how you are at making decisions. But I had thought long and hard about which paints and printing blocks to use. I had spent days if not weeks working myself up to be ready to try out my precious new printing blocks. And of course the choice of fabric to print on had taken some considerable time too. So. The day had finally come. I ...

Well my Stitching friends, I got a Needlefelting Machine for Christmas, and here are some samples of my playtime with it.  The  possibilities are endless. And it's so quick and simple of use too. So far I've been using felt, and leftover wool strands.  Above and below are two pictures of some flowers I made. The one above is from the back of the work and so you get to see where the fabrics have been punched through to the back, which gives a lovely painterly effect. The one below is the front. This is simply felt on felt with a few strands of wool for the stems.  In the one below I've needlefelted some voile onto a felt background I'm playing around trying to get a beach/sand effect As I'm very much learning about my machine at the moment I watched a programme on Create and Craft (Shopping Channel) yesterday where I picked up a couple more tips I'll be trying out watch this space.....I'll let you know how it goes. Off to p...