CHRISTMAS GIFT TAGS

I made some Christmas gift tags from strips of fabric, beads, machine and hand stitching. I only made five for my favourite people! They make me think of stained glass windows.

ROSE HIP

Such a lovely, healthy looking rose hip. Won't be long though before it becomes one of my beautiful dead things!

QUILTING EXPERIMENT

Playing around at quilting. I printed my finger painting exercise onto silk fabric, backed it with batting and got stitching. And a little beading. I didn't plan on it being a 'proper piece' so hadn't figured how to finish it off. So I just stitched all around the edge with blanket stitch in different coloured threads.

MUSHROOMS

Mushrooms marching across my front lawn. So cute all cuddled together :-)

DILL

This is a dill plant which has grown and grown and at the moment I can't bear to cut it down or whatever you're meant to do with them. It looked so beautiful the other day against the sunlit beech hedge that I rushed out with my camera and took some shots. Wonderfully ethereal isn't it?

PLAYING WITH FELT

Just playing around with needle felting! A lesson in how not to approach a piece - no plan, no design, just wanted to play with a felting needle. Put a bit of everything in and then free machined over the top. Learnt a little more about how my sewing machine behaves with different types of fabric though. I think it might be a whale :-)

HARBOUR AT COVE

Two tiny cottages overlooking the small harbour at Cove.