Just a few day's late ... I've been a bit distracted, but here is my finished project for August. It's a funny little house pincushion, designed by Sue Spargo, but with a lot of tweaking by me. I was going for a bit of a Dutch Colonial look as in the picture below ...
... but something happened along the way and I ended up with this!!
Not one of those projects that at the end gives you a moment's smugness at one's personal achievement, oh deary no! This was more like "grrr, wonky stitches, mumble, mumble, seams don't match, mumble, mumble, I could have done that differently, better, etc. etc. ..."
But my list of unfinished projects is one project lighter, so onwards and upwards.
Wishing all the wonky stitches away.
Trudy
It all started when I was in a store and I dipped my hand into a deep bowl of stunningly gorgeous coloured felt balls. I had to have some! With a little idea brewing in my head, I carefully chose colours that all seemed to sit beautifully next to each other.
Then I played with them, rearranging them into different groups, in lines, by colour, and started thinking perhaps some colours were best left out of the mix? So many decisions, and all the while I just wanted to eat them!!
Discarding the yellows, orange and bright pinks, I thought this mix of colours would do the trick for the look I was after.
With string-coloured crochet cotton and a small hook, I simply did a very long chain stitch and pierced and threaded the felt balls onto it (using the very high-tech, three-fingers-wide, spacing technique!) I didn't even have to knot either side of the felt ball, they're just staying put. Very simple. Very easy. Very quick. Not rocket science, but hey, look ... a new necklace!!
Sorry about the lack of "person" inside the outfit, there's never anyone around when you need them, and I'm hopeless at those arty reflected-in-the-mirror shots!
Trudy
