Where the Sky meets the edge of the Moon

I'm back from Wales and this is the beautiful sky that greeted me. While away I did a very small amount of stitching...

 Some edges,

 where the sky meets the moon.

I have signed up for Jude's Sun Moon Stars online workshop which is not in 'real time' anymore but will still be useful to me I think. I am looking forward to finding my way round the interactive site and hopefully meeting some new blog friends along the way. Of course I will continue to post here too and show my progress. Today is a very autumnal day; blustery, wet and slightly chilly; a good day to stitch perhaps?

And the winner is....

JACKY!

Well done Jacky! I hope we get to see some pictures of you including it in your Magic Diary Cloth soon... I will email you to get your address.

If you didn't win and fancy a patch for your very own they are still for sale (at a very reasonable price!) in my shop...

Circles and Half Moons

A day out in South Wales. Blogging from my phone.

*giveaway* of a small harvest moon patch

So here is my first giveaway; a patch of felt meets cloth for you to use how you will. You could use it in a larger cloth, use it to patch a piece of clothing, to add a moon to an autumnal art cloth.....

size: 9 x 11 cm

Please leave a comment with your name and how you think you might use the patch if you win. Make sure you are contactable [email link], and, as I am going away this weekend, I will be randomly picking a winner on Tuesday 23rd August.

back view

Good luck!

Feathers, Moons, a *giveaway*, and some travel stitches

Feathers 
Ok, so I am sure you have all heard of Jude's call for feathers?

click here

If not check it out and get stitching a feather or two, its for a good cause! Mine is in the pipe line, just need a calm moment to start.
Also still on the thought of feathers, look what I found on etsy by Vanessa Villarreal, beautiful huh?

click here

click here

Moons, a *giveaway*, and some travel stitches
So I mentioned the moons last time, I hope to have the patches up in the shop by tomorrow or Tuesday, I am also going to do a *giveaway* in the next few days so watch this space stitchers!
I went to a friends wedding on Friday and took my bookmark wip with me on the train. It was a little cramped for the activity but I managed a little bit:

The stitching round the moon is a wonderful hand dyed cotton thread I picked up at the K&S show last year from the Oliver Twists stand; doesn't it go so well with the felt colours? They are a mail order company I think, but you can also get some of them online here, I was using colour no. 001 if you were wondering.

Right so now its a relaxing Sunday afternoon and I need to do boring things like washing clothes and hoovering. Hopefully I will get some stitching in there too.

Harvest Moon Patches and a New Cloth

Had a really productive day in the studio, taking photos of previous small cloths for the shop, and making some new felt meets cloth patches; some autumn harvest moons:

merino wool & tea stained muslin 

merino wool & linen cotton

merino wool & tea stained muslin 

These will be going up in the shop on Monday.

an array of harvest moons

a WIP; harvest moon bookmark

 This will be too when its finished. 

I have also been playing with a new cloth. Its a work in progress, might be a slow one. May even see me to winter? Lets see how it goes. Its still small, but on the larger side of small, and could grow of course...

Felt Meets Cloth - etsy shop now open

I have taken the plunge; an Etsy shop owner I now am! Check it out HERE, I will be slowly adding more to it over the next few days, but so far I have some of the recent bookmarks and the recent summertime small cloth for sale. Let me know what you think of the shop, the images of the items etc.... I would love constructive feedback.

for sale here

for sale here

for sale here

More Bookmarks

More bookmarks finished. Taken some nice images I think so I hope to put these up to sell in my new Etsy shop this week. Was going to do it tonight but been totally distracted by the riots in London. Its madness. Time for bed I think. 

Stitching Felt

adding stitches to felt patches

 Inbetween work on my fake archive I have been stitching into scraps and patches of tester felt. This one was a tester for the piece I made last year; Checkered Openings. I like to use up the tester bits and also want to start making small cloths that incorporate more of my handmade felt so this is the first go at it. We shall see how it develops...

adding stitches to felt patches

And thank you to Heike from Gerdiary for sending my purchased fabric pack so quickly. I love her work and her natural dyed fabrics and scraps that she sells in her online shop; this apricot pack will be so useful to me. Keep your eyes out for bits of them in my upcoming works! And get your own before they sell out...

pick up your own pack here

pick up your own pack here

Bozena Wojtaszek - Textile Artist

I have been searching around Etsy trying to get inspiration for setting up my own Etsy shop for selling my textile stuff. Today I have come across Bozena Wojtaszek's shop.

flickr link here

etsy link here

I particularly love her textile teapots and teapot bunting and also her trees. I mean textiles, cloth, stitching plus teapots = awesome in my eyes!

etsy link here

Go check her out, see what aspects of her work you like best.

Bookmarks

Now I tried posting this yesterday from my phone but it failed and wouldn't let me do it again! So here it is again; cannot quite remember what I said but basically these are two new stitched pieces, bookmarks to be precise. They will be for sale in my new (nearly ready) etsy shop very soon. Watch this space!

They are bits of the monoprinted textiles from a few weeks ago along with some other scraps and some hand stitching; designed to fit nicely in any book and also be a kind of soft comfort to hold while reading. A place keeper and a 'sense of place' holder? Either way, I want to make more.