Valentine Fairy Slippers

I am entering these fairy slippers for the Virtual Valentine Craft & Bake 2012 which is being run by Jacqueline at Cakeboule.  I cutting it rather fine as the deadline is today, 4th February!

The pattern for the slippers was in the Dec 2007/Jan2008 copy of Stitch Magazine. I haven't done any freestyle machine embroidery for some time so please forgive me for the rather dodgy stitching, also not easy on teeny tiny slippers, they are about 7cm (3in) long.

There will be a round up of all the entries on the Cakeboule website for Valentine's Day.

New Felt Bag

The felting session that included making Dicky Bert was really started in order to make a felt handbag/purse for a friend and work colleague who is leaving this week. She had asked me about making one for her, but wasnt' sure what colour she wanted and it never got made. So I decided to surprise her with this bag which I think will go well with the colours she wears.
As you can see, I had an 'assistant' photographer!

Captions please!

What do you think the caption should be for this photograph? Just for fun, no prizes and nothing rude please! Yes, that is me on the bird, just as well it was nice day or it might have been a bit breezy up there.

The Eagle has landed!

Well, not quite an Eagle - ha ha ha! Over on Bubbly Scrumptious there is a Bubbly Fun Challenge to create a felt bird, read about it HERE As I make my own felt from fibres, I felt I had to rise to this challenge and remembered a project in a book by talented felter Ewa Kuniczak for making a felt bird. It was a considerable challenge as I have never done any wet felt scupting, but I was really pleased with the way it came together, even if it did take me a couple of hours!!!
I had even more fun staging these photographs of Dicky Bert, as he has been named by the Bubbly Funk Chat Room crew (some of their suggestions would have brought the wrong sort of traffic to my blog lol), and you can see by the sky just what a glorious day it was yesterday.
I've promised to do a little more trickery with these photos, so come back tomorrow and see what I have manged to do.

No time to blog

Just a quick update as I am really busy making felt flower brooches for a couple of craft fairs that I have coming up in December. Because of this, card making and photos have had to take a back seat.

The painting was all finished on Sunday and now we are waiting for the joiner to come back and rebuild the cupboards and box in some of the pipes, then the electrician can come back and put the sockets back on the walls and connect the heaters. Do you think it will be finished for Christmas?

Serial Crafter - New name

I've decided to rename my blog 'Serial Crafter'. I had thought I might use it for my felt-making business but it seems to have taken on a life of its own and I have got hooked on those dares. My OH is making me a standard web page for Original Felt Designs, so I will have something when I close my e-shop.