Think Spring

Hey Blog Buddies,

Thanks for all of your kind comments.  I truly do appreciate them.  We have more snow predicted here in the Chicago area overnight, and if I think about that I'll get all depressed, so instead I choose to think Spring.  I came across a little Prairie Schooler card with a Spring design in my stash, no doubt gotten for free from either a shop or a guild event some time in the indeterminate past.

It was a very quick stitch--

I started it about 3 days ago

and it's already finished!

It gave me a nice break

from my larger WIPs.

Continuing right along in the same vein,

the project at our guild meeting

last week was a mixed-media needlebook,

and the results looked very Springlike indeed.

The best part of it was

the project was super quick and easy--

just fuse the materials to one another with an iron.

The only sewing that was needed

was to attach the felt pages for the needles.

We were all given a foundation of

two pieces of fabric sewn together with

some heavier fabric in the middle.

Our kits contained pieces of colored paper,

snippets from books,

brightly colored cheese cloth,

2 pieces of felt to attach inside for the needles,

tatted chains, stamps,

lots of stuff!

We fused the layers together

with "Misty Fuse" and an iron,

and topped it all off with a piece of tulle.

This is the back cover of the book.

I like it better than the front!

But this is the danger of photographing your work:

the dog hair that you see (I know you do!)

is actually fused in between the layers!

I hadn't noticed it before I looked at the photo.

I have an opportunity to improve on this though.

I bought two extra needlebooks,

and now I have a better idea of how

to arrange my trinkets on them.

One can never have too many needlebooks

(hopefully without dog hairs!).

Hope you're enjoying whatever you're doing today.

Thanks for visiting!