A while ago I shared an update on the Sue Spargo Tone-Down Sampler that I am working on. See here for a refresher. I complained about one of the one-inch wool circles that I shared with you. I didn’t feel I had enough information from the pattern to make an educated guess about where exactly […]
crewel embroidery
Notebook Cover and Postcards Embellished
I headed for Blue Door Beads — I just love the name and, yes, they have a blue door — this morning to find something special for the closure on the notebook cover just completed. I think I found just the right thing (click on image for larger view): I had fun choosing the fabric […]
More Needle Felting
Yum! I am loving the hand of these needle felted pieces. Here is the second half of the crewel-embroidered snippet I found. The cording on the edge was tied around a Christmas gift last year. It’s so fun to repurpose things that come into my life — especially in unexpected ways. Click on an image […]
Needle Felting
I’ve turned half of the crewel-embroidered fabric I needle felted into a postcard. The fabric included a metallic thread stitched around much of the individual motifs, however, after needle felting the metallic thread was cut too much to leave hanging here and there. So I removed the tidbits of broken threads and added my own […]
Needlefelting
The needlefelting machine has been idle for simply too long. Time to dig out the wool roving and do something with it! And look what I found while pulling out the roving. It’s an embroidered snippet (about 6″ x 8″) of who-knows-what that my cousin left me from his estate. It looks like crewel […]
