Dress Rehearsal

Little dancers getting ready to rehearse their Mayday dance.


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Here's a group photo:


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Some have shoes:


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and some have boots.


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Birds of a feather

I've had a few comments and enquiries about my birds. Here's some information:

I had in mind a flock of brightly coloured birds to decorate the craft stall next month. I finally settled on two shapes: my "chicken" shaped bird and one other, courtesy of Nellie Durand. I've used Nellie's pattern before, but I gave my birds nice big feet to make them stand up better.

Here's my flock of bigfoot birds:


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They are made from left-over scraps of quilted or "embellisher" fabric and have needlefelted beaks.

This one is my current favourite, made from my "chicken" shaped body pattern with Nellie's wings.

And another.................

this time in blue:

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Red, Red Wine

Red, red wine - one of my favourite songs and my poison of choice. I can't drink it at the moment and I think my feelings of deprivation must have influenced my fingers when I made this little figure - a kind of "red wine witch". Or perhaps with her happy, chubby face, this little one cooks with the wine, or maybe she picks the berries in the forest. Possibly, like me she drinks it!


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FIgure this owl!

Here's what I did with a face left over from making my stuffed owls. I made this chap:


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I just thought I would try the face on a textile figure. I needlefelted the beak to give it a bit more definition and added a "feather" ruff and eyebrows.

Here he is with his bird:


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