Sometning new

I can't resist Christmas! I just feel I need to make something Xmassy! And here we are - white snow, dark night, red birds!

Kindle Case "Christmas night"

What is new apart from the theme? New type of closure, with elastic loop and wooden button. I like it, need to use it more...

My new storage system

Sounds a bit too grand for a few boxes of wool and yet...
These are "Before" and "After" pictures - a small bureau and stack of plastic boxes (a lot more plastic boxes throughout the house). I don't have a working room and work in the kitchen - light coming from two sides, water always at hand and wooden (not carpet!) floor. I like it there but I didn't like running through the house collecting all wool I need at the moment. So my husband decided to organise my stuff a little bit. Now it's a large unit with variety of boxes. The thing is IKEA. I am not a great fan of IKEA's stuff but we could get all boxes in matching sizes and many colours. Now all my wool is in one place.

Before

After

I even have a few drawers! And some holes to put my papers and smaller boxes in.



If you look carefully you can see that one of the top boxes stores a lot of juice cartons! All my Kap merino wool colours are in them:






Not very glamorous but very convenient if you (like myself) need a lot of colours at the same time and amounts are small.

New Scarf and experiments with cotton scrim

I've made a new nuno scarf and I wanted to try dyeing and using different fabrics. Mainly they were silks - raw silk, silk chiffon and more silky stuff I don't know the name. I dyed chiffon first, the others were already of the colours I wanted.

So this is the scarf.

It's rather small so it needed a button or brooch to keep ends together. I didn't want to make a large brooch or make a button hole so I've just made a small brooch of this lovely ceramic button!

As for a cotton scrim it was not that good. You can see than the dye doesn't work on it, after felting it returned to original off white colour.I need to think more about it...

How to install magnetic snap Tutorial

 I was asked to demonstrate how I install the magnetic snaps in my cases. Here we are (it's for you Teri!)
This is a pictures of finished case, snap installed, nothing is visible from outside, looks neat.

Felted case with magnetic snap

At first the case is half-felted:

And this is what I am going to install - the 4-part snap. 

Fish?..Toad?..

I'm keep playing with surface design techniques. Now it's fish shaped cushion with very peculiar eyes! They make it look like a toad actually...

Fish Cushion

This is how it's bottom look. Both top and bottom are nuno felt with silk fabric to reduce pilling. 

 

And a close-up of the eye!

Sorry for the quality of the pictures! The weather here is just foul!

Watercolour Kindle Case

Don't remember showing my last Kindle cases... This is one of them picturing Hydrangea flowers (yes,again!). I worked on the background a lot to make it less patchy and more fluid in colour. I'm really pleased with the result!

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Felted Kindle Case

Watercolour hydrangea

More pictures, you need to click on them to enlarge...

Fishy, Fishy!..

I've made quite a few fishes recently! Apparently they seemed to be very popular! I like to make them because they are fantasy creatures and very positive. But the main feature is that I can use practically any technique and try something new every time. Today I want to show four(!) fishes, all use different techniques.

In this one I've used resist to separate and expose background of different colour. And large gills!

Felted Fish

Here the use of resist again and nunofelted details.





Nunofelted strips of various grade silk.





Here the nuno again, strips of viscose fibers and a little bit of beading: