I suppose everyone in UK is stuck home with a snow blocked roads... I have two appointments cancelled today. But having felting at hand is very helpful!
Will show two different tea cosies, both with poppy design but colours are varied and it makes all the difference:

 

For your eyes only!

Last week I posted a new tea cosy with poppy design on Facebook and sold it the same day:

But I need some for a Skipton fair so that I had to make two more with similar design but was not going to show them in social media until the event is over, I need a good display there. Here are they:

 

Hope somebody will like them... 

Catching up...

Oh dear! I'm so behind, do not even know what to talk about... OK, what's gone is gone, I'd better tell you what's on and what is coming.
I'm in the third week of online course on Fantasy Fish. It's the final week so it's time for a brief summary:
- am I happy with the course - not exactly;
- do I know what should have been done differently - no;
- am I going to run another course, later - not sure.
Very positive, isn't it?

The second show of Crafts in the Pen is coming next month. I was quite happy how the last year it went and was looking forward for this one. Now it's close and we've got a brochure and I'm growing  more apprehensive as it nears. 
At first it's huge this year 176 participants instead of 105 last year, and many of them (myself included :( ) have double pens. It means vast space for visitors to cover and it's not indoor meaning a lot of customers will just give up before checking on the all stands.   
Then the selection of exhibitors is a little bit strange to my taste. I do admit that the last year show was a mixed bag, and the standards of this year is much higher but it's much closer to art show than to Xmas craft fair. I do agree that artistic quality of, say, paintings or prints, is much higher than, say again, of decorative candles, but we are there for Christmas! I'm sure people would prefer more festive staff which means - cheerful, cheaper, even slightly kitschy. I myself was exhibiting at art show earlier this year but at Crafts in the pen I'm to present very different stuff.
Anyway "happiness comes from having low expectations" and my expectations are really low!

To end on more optimistic note I'll show something cheerful! Sunflowers tea cosy, just finished:

Mid Summer Treat

Mid summer is a quiet time in my garden. Th late summer beauties - rudbeckias, fuschias, hydrangeas are not in full flower yet, so it's just daisy, crocosmia and viticella clematis, which are in front row. And they are a joy to watch!

And I've made two tea cosies with a new poppy design! I 've shown the first one on Facebook 
and the second one is here:

Enjoy the summer!

The benefits of the doubts

I'm with Facebook now and like it there!  But I'm not leaving my blog behind! Recently I've made a tea cosy with a new design of sunflowers. Everything was fine apart from the central flower, the largest one. While I remembered what it was I wasn't happy with I've made a repeat, focusing mainly on that flower. I'm happy with it now but the rest of a bouquet was not as good as the first one! Going in circles, am I?  
Here they are pictured together:

Garden Beauties

I have some beautiful hydrangeas in my garden. Now they are in full bloom, I think this year was very good for them. So showy flowers and I made a new tea cosy!





This is my inspiration!

Tea Cosy Blue Meadow

My tea cosies are usually of grey and light yellow/green colours, good as a background for flowers. I always wanted to make a blue (very blue) one... And here we are! My "Blue Meadow":

Tea Cosy "Poppy Morning"

I aim to perfect my poppy images so this is a new tea cosy!

Tea Cosy with daisy and clover

This is a new tea cosy with rather elaborate design. It took a lot of my time!

We are in December now and I still have some flowers in my garden. Rudbeckias are the bravest and the brightest! I can't resist I "painted" them again, and it's not the end of affair!

Sunflowers at last!

I've made quite a few items with images of sunflowers but was never happy with the result. This tea cosy seems OK so!

Sold

The last picture is of the tea cosy with a teapot inside!

Tea Cosy Pink Daisies

This lovely tea cosy's just being sold and I haven't show it here yet!

Sold

It's my favorite, I think the best so far and I'm so pleased that it's bought as a wedding present for someone!

Dreams of high summer

They've long gone but I still play with poppy images...

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Autumn Bouquet

Poppy, rudbeckia... Rudbeckia, poppy... Sorry for that! I can't help it, they are so colourful and architectural flowers! So this is rudbeckia again:

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This is the other side.



And more detailed pictures.