Happy Holiday

WISHING YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS

AND A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND CREATIVE NEW YEAR

News from Fibre in-Form

We wanted to tell you about a freebie workshop that we have just added to the website. It’s a taster for a new workshop planned for early next year called

‘Out of the Cupboard'.

This one is called ‘A Fascination with Foil’ and explains the techniques that we have used to create some really great samples using kitchen foil. Follow this link to download the:
Free Taster Workshop

December card for Jenny

This is the picture chosen by Neki for the December postcard swap for Calendar Girls



This one had me stumped and so I decided to free machine embroider onto black velvet, This blue was the only one I had, I have every colour of turquoise but not much blue, it looks too pale now I compare it to the original,



The year has flown by and its been great fun, thanks to all the Calendar Girls for your lovely cards.

November card for Neki

This is the picture Jenny chose for Calendar Girls postcard swap for November.
I love the way the little girl is looking out into the distance and the little fairies are all going about their business below the tree roots.



My first thoughts didn't work out due to the small scale, but I had this piece of painted Lutradur and the colour reminded me of lichen coloured tree bark, and o I created a door covering the whole postcard the cord is supposed to represent tree roots :)



Once you open the door it reveals the little fairies who have come out to play



This picture was in my stash of copyright free images its Arthur Rackhams from a Midsummer Nights Dream, I printed it out onto acetate and placed it over a peice of transfer foiled kitchen foil. it has a lovely golden glow in real life I can't get a picture as it is so dark, but this scan gives you an idea.

To get a selection of copyright free images sign up for the free samples that are released every week HERE

There is a great givaway on The Stamp Man blog, these gorgeous stamps, go and put your name down, you never know you could be lucky.



Arrived home from shopping cold and tired to be greeted by this wonderful Calendar Girls postcard from Carol T to see what everyone has been doing go and check them out HERE

Lovely post

I have been very slow in acknowledging the lovely cards I received lately, first is this lovely ATC from Núria Madurell
I haven't forgotten your card Nuria and will send it off soon.



Next was this beautiful hand stitched postcard from Pippa for the October Calendar Girls



Last but not least is this wonderful card from Val I want to go and live in that little house in the tree.
Thanks everyone

Catch up

While I was at Ally Pally K&S show Dale of The Thread Studio gave Lynda, Maggie and I some of this exciting new Lutradur type product called Crash to try out, to find out more have a look here
Looking forward to having a play with it, Dale has produced some great samples with it.

This little pile below is a project I want to get started on, using a big fat Sunday paper and a sample I have had for a while.





The sample above was made back in July as part of the free lesson available on D4Daisy with our book Stitching The Textured Surface

After creating the shape the sample was sprayed with Adirondack inks and silk paints and while wet I sprinkled some of the powder on top, not how you are supposed to add it, but thought I would see what happens, I only sprayed it with water and it didn't rust but stayed a gunmetal colour, I over sprayed with Moonglow Moonshadow mists, then painted on some Golden gel matt medium, when applying the medium it was making the underlying colours run.
I sprinkled the rust powder on and spritzed it with white vinegar a few times.
It was interesting to see the rust that was originally applied started to show through on the left hand side and bottom left



As the rust dried I could still see the gel medium creating a shiny streak so over sprayed the lot with Moonshadow Mist Gossamer Gold, this knocked back the shine and still allowed the rust to show through,
I liked how this turned out and decided it was time to use it in something



This is the back, some great colours showing through even a bit of rust

A month late

Ooops I just found this post in draft written a whole month ago.

I thought I would show you my new work table, we had a large piece of worktop over from doing up the kitchen so my husband cut two old wardrobe doors in half glued them together and made the legs,
I bought some new drawer units and its great I can reach everything so easily, my last set up was two old shelf units one in front of the other with an old desk top on top, this meant I had to get on my hands and knees to reach the back and lately I couldn't get up again :)

In the kitchen we moved the wall cupboards along into the corner and filled the space left with these two shelves, looking around for something to put on them I remembered this, it will do until I find the right thing

You can read more about it HERE,
it was supposed to hang on the wall, but the bottom wouldn't lay flat.