day 5

A brooch, a pendant, earrings ?
I just make what comes to my mind.

Sometimes the work goes quickly
(though it takes me hours to stitch to completion)
and sometimes it seems to take all day
because along the way I change my mind,
or I find something in my stash
that is an even better idea !

The PINK RIBBON Textile Jewel
for day  5 :

a two-sided wet felted pendant in a shield shape
on a long textile bead and with a tiny felted ball
and on a homemade cord.
Stitched on both sides with blues and greens (cotton and rayon)

a few sequins and some beads
(7,5 x 5 cm,    3 x 2")

For a donation
of (at least)

€ 15

SOLD  !

this pendant can be yours
shielding you and keeping you happy.
If you want this for yourself or for a friend
all you have to do is send me an email at
  fiberrainbow@gmail.com  

and everything will be arranged
Paypal is possible and easy
(+ postage)

ALL the money goes to PINK RIBBON !

 "BLUE  GUARD" 

Tomorrow there will be
a new Textile jewel for you !
Hope to see you then

knitting (and felt) on Saturday

Today I went to Rotterdam for the Stitch'nBitch group there.

Again, like four weeks ago, it was bitterly cold.

This time however we were with 

sixteen women !

Can you imagine how much noise

knitting women make ?

A   LOT 

(ha, everyone was getting louder and louder

just to hear her neighbour)

Although I had to frog a bit 

(because I wasn't paying attention enough and had increased two stitches)

the work on my double knitted scarf 

is going smoothly :

nearly there !

The only thing I don't like 

about the Noro Kureyon Sock yarn

is that it's spun soooo thin in some places,

I have to break it up and knit some stitches with a double thread,

which leaves me with a lot of loose ends to weave in ...

Never mind that, 

the colours are gorgeous !

*

In the garden the small flowers braved the icy wind

still going strong ..... and also gorgeous colours !

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For the felting - exchange this month's subject for me was 

water

I was in the mood for some experimenting.

The pre felt I made was dried a bit and then

stitched  into pleats with a woolen thread that would felt too,

and strips of plastic as a resist

(the wool is Rowan tweed, but nót very suited and strong enough for knitting)

After cutting the pleats and removing the resists

there was a lot more felting to do

This is the finished piece 

which turned out more or less the right size !

(on its way to the recipient )

new beginnings

The "Diaries" class over at Jude's

(which isn't really a class in the normal way)

has started this September.

And now, after finishing the Wedding piece and the Warm Heart,

my hands are finally "free" to start on something new and b i g

And I mean literally b i g, like a blanket,

which is nót the size I normally prefer !

In fact I bought some lovely thick cotton ikat fabric last year.

This fabric I want to use  in a way

that you still see part of the "ïkat" on either side.

(because I also want it to be double sided) 

So I unearthed it from the back of a drawer

and the rainbow colours,

that were still pinned on around the moon,

go just fine with my latest plans for it !

On the other side there will be a lot of butterflies

of which I still had some left

from the Patchwork Beasts class, two years ago.

Lots of new butterflies are being pieced

by the machine, and than the seams basted in Jude's way,

with all the lovely tiny dimples at the right side.