Wedding Teacosy No. 3

Better Photos of the Wedding Teacosies

Felted Wedding Teacosies

If you follow my other blog; darning the divide you will know it's my sister's wedding in a month and I am busy making lots of things for it; several being wedding teacosies:

 Above are photos of the first teacosy of the day; a reversible wedding teacosy with nuno felted chiffon and muslin decoration.

These are of the second teacosy, which used a doily and chiffon, but this time the chiffon didn't felt and attach itself very well, not like the first; I think I know why so next time I will be more careful.
I will have better photos when they are dry.

Tea Dyeing Experiments & Monoprints onto Cloth

Tea dyeing some new bits of cloth; love to play.

(from left to right; linen, thin muslin, thicker muslin; before&after)

samples; before&after

Have been doing some mono print experiments in the studio (see more here). Some of which are onto cloth which I intend to stitch or felt into or use in sections to add to other cloth work. Only black ink used this time but want to branch out into some colours next time.

onto interfacing fabric

onto canvas

onto canvas

onto tea dyed muslin

Felt Meets Cloth again

needle felting into heavy calico in the studio

I was in the studio all Sunday. Taking a break from the BAO project. Needle felting into calico. Needle therapy!


needle felting into heavy calico - mid way




needle felted circles into calico



Milk Jug Cover Done

Surprisingly I finished this Milk Jug Cover today; I needed to! Next time, I want to add a crocheted edge...

Milk Jug Cover WIP

I am looking after my sister's cat at the moment. She keeps trying to get into my milk jug; a cover is needed. Need to learn some crochet.........for edges; may also need a hook.....!

Cat Hair Felt????!

Hi all,
Sorry its been so long since I last posted. My book arts side of me has run away with itself and all my time! I do stitch occasionally still of course but I haven't felted since Christmas! Eek! I am dying to get back into some cloth work when I have a moment but there is a big book art project i'm working on which I want to get finished first. Anyway, I saw this Japanese craft book and laughed so much I had to share with you; can you believe you can use cat hair????! Amazing! Anyone tried it out before?

Welcome to Bournemouth gift cloth - finally given

'Cloth That Binds Us' - Textile Book Exchange WIP

Textile books in progress. Edition of 5 to exchange. http://artistbooks.ning.com/group/textilebooks/forum/topics/mail-art-books-from-textile?xg_source=activity

BAO (Book Art Object) project

I've not posted here for a while because I have been busy with the Book Art Object project. You can see what I've been up to over at my other blog and on the collaborative project blog too. It's given me some textile ideas too though. Glyphs in cloth? Textile mark-making? I can just see the above glyphs embroidered onto linen. . .

A New To-Do Tab

Sorry I have been so busy this new year. New windows and a new front door. Too busy for much cloth unfortunately. But I have a new tab on the blog; my Textile To-Do List! It will be added to as and when I think of things I want to create, and hopefully things will get crossed out as they are done, but perhaps they will just evolve into other things.....

Holidays, Gifts and a New Year

Firstly there was the wrapping; the bows took all day on Christmas Eve but it was worth it. 

 Then there was a present; this one was made for me by a fellow stitcher at work and isn't it great? She said she was inspired by my artsy stitching and had to try her hand at random stitches - I like the result. And isn't that bow and label just brilliant?!

 And then after Christmas I came home alone and started a little Holiday Cloth. Inspired by Jude of course. 

 I've been working on it after work every day this week. Work has been so busy this week. Isn't the time after Christmas and before New Year so odd? A dark and empty week full of strange times that always makes me want to watch Twin Peaks; which I did and stitched this during it; can you see a bit of Lynch darkness in there?

 And of course I finished the Winter Cloth before I started the Holiday Cloth. 

 Happy New Year everyone. 

Autumn/Winter Cloth _ WIP

Still a Work In Progress this one; the moons have shifted and are in flux; showing the phases and yet still full. I want to stitch some more into this. See it below atop my Summer Cloth with its lone green moon over taken by a shadow of felt.

Christmas Fair

 This is the grey massam teacosy I felted the other day; added appliquéd gingham hearts to it and blanket stitch to the bottom; sold it so I am happy! In fact I sold 4 teacosies and lots of the stuffed xmas trees and hearts.

I even sold one the little coloured twines even though it was just there as decoration!