Felted Fish

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!

Prehistoric Fish

I've tried to create a "toad skin" effect:

Also I've worked on eyes to make them very prominent like chameleon's eyes:

Everything is more or less OK but there is no shine on the skin as I expected. I created this effect using a lot of nepps and silk squares so the shine was intended but it's very dull instead!..

Any ideas why? I'll post a question on the forum...
 
 
 

A fish and a fish

I've made two new fish, the first one is colouful, somewhat a repeat, and the second one is in more restrain colours and I like it more. I think these simple horizontal slits add some movement.

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:

Marmalade Rose

This a post about an artist I didn't know about until recently! This discovery was entirely accidental but never mind that!

Her name is Fiona and she exhibits under the name Marmalade Rose. 
Her felted pictures are absolutely amazing and adoring, look at this one:

 Enjoy!

Weedy Inspiration

Quite unlikely source of inspiration:

And that's the result:

It's a case for glasses or phone to wear it around the neck hence the string.