A Golden Wedding Anniversary

card.

Used the instructions on The Craft Barn's blog to make the rosette. 

Allotment Scrapbook

Another bookbinding.  Yonks ago I made a piece of card using cut up images from a fruit catalogue.  OH wanted a small scrapbook to use as an allotment diary so I dug out my collage and made this A5 notebook.

Just hope it logs a more productive year than last. 8>(

Japanese Bookbinding Album

More of the same really. Lol.

Done in blue as that was the favourite colour of Mr S.

And if you don't know about the lovely Mr S. please look at the Hugbinders blog.

Birthday Card

Fused felt & shiny bits and then ran it through the cuttlebug with the tattered florals die.

The leaves are made by trapping shiny bits between two pieces of organza and then putting on an embroidery hoop.  Did the outline in satin stitch and then free machined the centre bits.

Humbug & Pyramid Bags

Nicks very kindly lent me a book yesterday by Margaret Beal which rather spookily I had just reserved at the library the day before.

In it was these little bags.  It's a bit difficult to explain here how it's done but I do love the idea of them.  Especially the small ones within a larger one.   No end to what little bits you could put in them.

Fusing Felt & Organza

This is a technique where you cut small triangles of fabric that will melt and lay them onto a piece of felt.  You then lay on a metal rule and run a fine tip soldering iron down the edge of the rule to bond the pieces to the felt. 

These are a few experimental pieces using a different combo of colours & fabrics each time.

More Free Motion Stiching

This time on water soluble film.

My lovely friend Julia came round to give me a tutorial and this is my finished first piece.

A grid was drawn onto the water soluble film which was about 4 inches x 4 inches.  The grid was then free motioned stitched with a straight stich.  Stitch setting was then changed to a zig zag and circles worked over the whole grid.

The most important thing about this is that all the circles must at some point connect to each other and the grid otherwise when the water soluble film is dissolved it will not hold together.

This is a picture before being immersed in water.

This is a picture after.
















Now I know it's not brilliant but I am chuffed with my first effort.