titchy little chaps

The heart brooch's are finished, and they are rather cute ,aren't  they, and quite small, only two inches tall
  I did enjoy making them but I wasn't to happy with the instructions, the magasine said to cut out each heart, then iron bondaweb to the back of each heart, then bond a heart shaped piece of felt to the back of each one.

I found it quicker and easier to simply iron a piece of bondaweb onto the back of the whole sheet,
and then bond the sheet to a piece of felt, and cut out the little hearts afterwards
no critiscism of stitch magasine, its great, always full of good ideas and stuff to try out, I often give away magasines but not this one, I always keep them

 Anyway, total change of subject.....
does anyone know what this plant is?
I buy it every year as an anual bedding plant and it has bright purple stems,
love it! i want to do a little page on it but dont know its name...
any answers?



one more change of subject,  I am extremely excited to have joined  the stitching challenge starting in january.
 Im hoping to learn loads of new stuff and get lots of ideas,  have a look on   pintangle  about three posts back....
bye for now  tina



Saved stitching



Between Christmas shopping,still dillying about with curtains and listening to people coughing a lot, I haven't done much fun sewing.
But yesterday my magasine arrived through my letter box, it was like a mini Christmas!



And look,a perfect little project, portable, easy and quick
. lots of lovely little brooches 



Easy peasy lemon squeezy!!!!!



P,S. The fabric is a 15 year old scrap of a half made dolly jacket , that I found in a box , see, everything is use full eventually.......

Busy week,little blighters.



A lot of sewing this week,too much in fact.
their were jeans to be mended,an under wire to be fixed back into a bra and then
aaaaagghhhhh
bloody badges!!!!!!!!!
Its remembrance Sunday coming up and badges must be  on uniforms, not in boxes sitting in the to do pile,
after I had sewn about 57 thousand of the blighters on, then,
then Angela tells me her no 1 son is making a good profit sewing on badges!!!
grrr If I had known, he could have done mine too. 



Anyway, after that I got on to some more interesting stuff.
Finally joined my four part journal quilts together
I really enjoyed stitching these , lovely valdani thread.

then I popped into our village charity shop, and the nice lady had saved me this.

wow, lovely soft fuchsia pink linen  with amazing buttons
what  does it want to be? I wonder.....



Then I sewed this, its a large sheet of christmassy stuff that you could cut decorations out of,
but actually it may go on to be a book cover [ or it might have a long sleep in the Christmas box.]



these are two little hearts that I will stitch into for the two smallest people in our family,
the other kids want to make their own hearts

And when we have all made a little heart, we are going to hang them on this big heart,on our kitchen wall
for Christmas.

been scavenging again



wow! is that beautiful or what?
Just had a great visit with Wendy of emmelines place,
 oh my goodness such amazing treasure, Wendy is a mixed media artist and her work is lovely, and the stuff in her studio-- wow!

She has all these wonderful dyed fabrics, a whole collection of orange and yellow samples I love orange! thank you Wendy- I have something special in mind for this.

this wall paper has raised dahlias on it,Wendy has done some great rubbings of it and now shes given it to me- cant wait to get those markels out! 



And guess what this is?
Its a Pianola scroll!we were talking about spindles and Wendy has kindly given me one of her collection to use for a spindle book, but its almost too nice, I will have to think carefully about what I do with this,




look at the perforations....

  And in a proper box too..



thank you wendy for all the lovely stuff, I also came back with a head stuffed full of differant techniques and ideas and ended up failing to cook tea for the monsters because we were all so busy painting and chopping up magasines I will show this in a couple of days


And who remembers my last years december journal?  
its fat and wobbly and wierd and I loved making it, it was so  much fun to do,but it ended up triangular because I put so much in it
well, now I know how to rebind it to make it flat, just in time for this years one ,so lots coming bye for now, Tina



BOOK COVER SICKNESS STRIKES AGAIN.

 I was trotting through the high street today, visiting all the charity shops, when this bag shouted at me--BUY ME-------BUY ME---I WANT TO BE A , BOOK  COVER REALLY, I .DO..........

And so, for the princely amount of £1.50    I bought a bag, its made of rows of indian sari cord and its got a silk lining

Bargain!!!!



Isnt it gorgeous.
 watch this space........



I,v cracked it!

Yes!, finally I get it ,done three more to make sure,I have learned its best to use one thick thread, rather than a double thread[ which may twist], so what can I do with this now?
I am thinking, coins, buttons,sequins,shapes,fimo shapes hmmmmm.........

Can I thank everyone who sent me advice and links to shisha mirror tutorials
its nice to know theres someone out there.

If you like this and want to see more,  go here.

nearly up to date...

  the journal pages are finished, if you imagine they will run in a continuous line. joined by a further four pages to make a concertina book,you can sort of get an idea.






there is text in the quilting.



this is not all I have been stitching,having been watching YouTube embroidery stitch's  and...... somehow, I have become obsessed with mastering shisha mirrors



its not good and its not easy, but I will keep trying until I get it right.





this is number ten, so, some improvement, I can only find 3 tutorials on YouTube, one is pictures and the other two are slightly different, one suggests a  forward chain stitch after the buttonhole stitch and the other recommends a back stitch, so I am a bit confused but I will keep at it.