I'm taking the Embellisher class offered by Dale Rollerson of
http://www.thethreadstudio.com/ The Yahoo group has so many pictures on it that I decided to show my Lesson l work here.
Here is a set of samplers. The first is different yarns attached in different designs. The second is fibers on felt. The last is fabric strips on felt. I tried silk, sheers, lame, a braid, and the
top funny bit
is narrow ri
bbon.
Here is a piece of mixed fibers with a bronze sheer over them. It was embellish front and back. Did the colors ever change, but I like the subtle effect.
Silk fibers on felt is next. Then felt shapes from the front(bottom) and the back. On the ones from under the felt, I tried ju
st edge stitching and all over.
I thought the houses everyone was making were so cute that I had to try one. It is all done from leftover scraps.
Here is the challenge piece. We were to do strips of fabrics, but I did a crazy quilt type layout with cheesecloth and silk(never could follow directions), put twisted yarns on it, hand stitched the edges trying 2 different stitches, and applied felt flowers by embellishing the centers from the back and hand beading. And this is only lesson 1 of 6!!
In answering questions last time, I forgot the place I lived the longest-Montana. That's where I went to high school and college, taught school, married and had 2 children. I wonder what it says that I forgot I lived there. I love the outdoors and used to hike the wilderness areas, did rock and fossil hunting.
I'm late in blogging today, because we have been without a phone and internet, since probably Saturday afternoon. Of course, unless it's an emergency, they don't send anyone out on a Sunday-when we figured it out. The man was here for 3 hrs., and we found more phone jacks than I knew about. Once he left, I had to put everything we'd moved away.
