sketchbooks felting and wedding accessories - what a week

some more judrops in progress

I've had another extrememly busy week finishing up lots of things ~ here are some more of the pages from my sketch book for the DCA project, its done and Ive passed I saw the paper saying I had last Tuesday ~ a great big yipee!!! Loved this unit too but found it very stretching ~ why???? the colour ~ the subject ~ the size of the piece ~ having to evaluate my work after; a great learning curve. But I learned from it and am now preparing for my next units, Tuesday I have life drawing !!! I am really excited about this one and then on Thursday I have a 'graded unit' where we're given a brief and have to work to a time plan which we have to set ourselves and be mentored along the way ~ we're not allowed any help from our tutor and at the end have to present it ~oh my goodness ~ thats scary ~ but its an exciting project ~ we have to design a range of textiles for kitchen ware ~ tea towels, aprons and oven gloves etc. Ive chosen the 50's from the selection that was given. Ive had a wonderful week researching this era which I shamefully knew little about ~ here's some photos ~









Last Saturday 28th Feb my Embroidery Guild held a workshop with the wonderful Margaret Lappin we worked with felt and made it to pre felt then stitched into it and added fabrics then felted it completely ~ we also made chunky felt jewellery which was great fun ~ here are some of the pieces I produced as a result ~ loved every minute of the workshop ~ wonderful friends, laughter, chatter and lots of tea and biccies!

prefelt during stitch

prefelt with a little more stitch

finished pieces

above in my fav colours :)

starting to make prefelt and below
with stitch

above finished piece

this is for my city and guilds accessory project just some little finishing touches! Almost there with this one too :) Once its finished Ill post the pics on my other blog 'specially for the course ~ have a fab week ~ Judy xxx