My sewing machine is getting a good workout lately! :) This week has found me felting boots - I have 2 pairs 'on the go' - neither quite finished yet - and making hanging felt hearts for a commission. I went to town with the stitchery on these.. adding abstract shaped felt appliques & machine embroidery to a nice textural piece of felt.
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| Absolutely stuffed full of lovely lavender buds.. these are nice fat hearts :) This is just 6 of the 11 I made.. |
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| I had so much fun applique-ing and embroidering these.. I just LOVE the dimensional effect of stitching into felt! |
Working on the heart project got my imagination going.. as soon as I had finished them I stitched a hanging Christmas tree filled with allspice berries and cloves to smell like Christmas :) ...
And then went off at a tangent thinking about holidays & seasonal stuff - Halloween. The night before we had watched Batman Begins (Christian Bale is my fave Batman!) and I guess this must of still been in my mind 'cos I suddenly started picturing a felt bat with stitched details & swarovski crystal eyes
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| You cant really tell in this pic but the eyes GLOW. They are AB swarovski crystal and sooo irridescent. He is nice and chunky too - I used 2 layers of felt to stitch into |
And THEN following the Halloween vein I felted a witches pointy hat! Hows that for random? Its still drying at the mo.. pics to follow soon :)
Anyhoo.. time to go rustle up some food for my lot - enjoy the weekend folks
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Very nice hearts! I have a small pile of hearts that I've needle felted. I'm planning to dye them with cochineal, so you've inspired me to finish them ..... funny that I had also laid out some felted triangles and started to work on a Christmas tree!
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful projects, Deborah!! Wow! What a nice way to use up extra bits of finished felt...
ReplyDeleteand I love the idea of stuffing them with different spices/scents! XXO-
Thank you both :)
ReplyDeleteRMK they do say 'great minds think alike' :) I love the colour of cochineal dyed anything - so rich and raspberry-lishous... perfect for felt hearts!
Heather I'm up to my ears in little offcut bits.. never can bring myself to throw 'em out - as you say it is lovely to find a use for them :)
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What beautiful stuffed and stitched felty goodies...love the idea of the spice filled tree and the hearts are sumptuous!
ReplyDeleteHoly wooliness, cool bat! (though I imagine Christian Bale's BM is a bit more serous than Adam West's!)
Ali x
Thanks Ali :)
ReplyDeleteNot sure about Adam West.. I googled him - but havent seen the series.. Christian Bale makes a very deep, moody & smouldering BM (as you may guess lol)
Good to hear from you x