My next hobby?

I got my sewing machine back today having had it serviced so of course I had to sew something to check it was ok! So I did another textile panel, this time Winter.

Then I decided I wanted a go at free machine embroidery as I bought Jess some dissolvable fabric and she has been whizzing away on HER machine all day , creating these beautiful lacey designs. Hmmm I thought, that would make some nice leaves to embellish my Autumn panel....I had to borrow her machine as I don't have the correct foot for mine and these were my efforts! Don't think I will have any sort of future in this art! After all the stitching you run them under warm water and the plastic goes just like snot (sorry but it really is!) and then all melts away! They are drying at the moment; I hope they look better tomorrow!

A textile panel.

Once a month I go to see my friend Burnice in her Craft Cabin and Linda comes along too. Generally we just chat but just occasionally we do "stuff"! Linda has just been to a class where they made these textile panels and she thought we might like a go too. She brought along tons of really sparkly fabrics, lamee, dance fabric, silks and satins etc. We chopped little pieces off and then laid them on a base. Next we added threads, fibres, ribbons and sequins and trapped everything under black netting by stitching up and down with a machine.

This is my one. Next month we are going to make them into finished panels with embroidered borders etc. I have decided I am going to make a set of 4 and join them together to make a wall hanging. This one is Autumn I think and I shall use different colour combinations to represent the other seasons.

Of course home I went all proud and showed Jess (my daughter doing textiles) and she just said "yeah, we did that at school aaaaages ago, you should have done......". Supportive huh!