Joy Of Stitching

I've been working on this months - April's - Contemporary Quilt Group 's Challenge with The Quilters Guild of the British Isles. I began by making some headless sheep using water soluble plastic and freemotion stitching. Being a bit scared of getting their heads wrong I decided to make their heads later out of felt Then I machine embellished wool roving onto a felt background and added some wool to create the path and wall. I hand stitched and felted yellow flowers, Some grasses Swirly clouds and mountain trees Backed with a lovely grey wool fabric which I turned over to the front of the work as a self binding. Finally, I used a variegated thread to create a quilting stitch along the binding.  I thoroughly enjoyed working with the felt and wool  I'm going to explore these further.

Just wanted to share with you all this picture, as it involves the hexagon blanket from my last post. I posted this picture on facebook last week and I've had so many comments from friends and family about it. I was looking after William for the afternoon and I'd wrapped him in his Hexagon Blanket and laid him at one end of the settee. I sat at the other end and when I looked over and saw his little feet peeping out from the hexagons as he slept, I couldn't resist taking a picture. How cute is that?  EnJoy .