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Experimental Felt & Parisian Flowers

Have recently been playing with my favourite thing about feltmaking - the different textures you can make with inclusions and stitching.  The only limit is your imagination - oh, and time.  I lost about 2 hours stitching into this piece and it felt like five minutes!

 

 

 

Have also been to Paris recently where I did my usual thing of not taking photos of popular tourist attractions but seemed to focus more on local arts, the birds, iron railings and flowers! Why is that I wonder?  I think I just like details.

Found this gorgeous quilt in a shop in The Marais - simple design but stunning!  And so much work by hand.

 

And there were so many flowers all over Paris.   Couldn't resist photographing all the colours for future inspirations!

 
 

Some Pretty Things

Well, it’s all go here, busy, busy, busy!  But first some eye candy – I’ll assume you are a fibre lover and appreciate this gorgeous skein as much as me and mum - yum!

     

A trip for two days to London this week included a dash to 4 knitting shops/departments – Loop (delicious!), Liberty (lots of Rowan – yum!), John Lewis (lots more Rowan but let’s face it too much is not enough!) and I Knit (lots more fibre lovelieness!  This is where I finally caved in and bought this beautiful Colinette - I wasn't supposed to buy anything given that between us we already have enough wool to last a lifetime!).  There were no projects in mind, I just wanted to see all the wonderful yarns and yarn shops!  I’m sure you understand.  We still haven’t had any time to play with our new spinning wheel to make our own but I can’t wait especially after seeing so many beautiful yarns this week and getting ever so inspired!   This particular yarn is 100% wool so will felt into our wet felt projects beautifully!

A trip to the British Museum was also a must – there are so many beautiful and inspiring artefacts to see, here are some favourites:

 
Three terracotta wall tiles from 600-500BC, from the Nabu Temple, Borsippa

 
Faience Beads from 2250BC, from Tell Taya

 
Glass jar from 750BC.  Not sure where it’s from but its beautiful!

We have also been busy dyeing again this week for our next lot of scrim bundles, which will be available soon at Etsy and Ebay.  We dyed about 70 metres and have the turquoise and purple fingers to prove it!  Its quite an undertaking to dye that much in one go but its worth it when you see all the beautiful colours emerging...

 

Now we need to make some lampshades, finish some pictures, do some more dyeing, learn to spin….

Back from Camping - and a New Felt Picture and a New Toy To Play With!

We have been away on various camping holidays over the past few weeks and are back refreshed and ready to go again.  Between us we took 100s of photos "for inspiration" (my hubby just doesn't understand why I need 25 pictures of the same seagull all in a slightly different position...!)  Here is one of the pictures which I think I will turn into a felty, fabriccy picture one day soon...

 

Well, the English summer hasn't exactly provided much great camping weather - we went to several different places including Devon (twice), Norfolk and Lyme Regis and got soaked most of the time except for a few nice days in Devon.   I don't mind the rain as it makes the tent feel quite cosy but as it's still supposed to be summer I thought I'd make another bright and cheerful picture - this time another interpretation of the beach huts at Hengistbury Head in Bournemouth...

Hope you like it!

PS - We've just bought a new (second hand but still fabulous!) toy - a spinning wheel!  We are very excited and can't wait to get going.  Have had just one quick go on it so far (after about four hours of figuring out what goes where) and can feel a new addiction coming on!  We are super excited about having our own spun yarns to play with!

PPS - In case its confusing our blog sometimes says "we" and sometimes "I" in the text.  That's because I (Annie) do most of the blogging (mum doesn't like computers quite as much as I do!) so while its about both of us there's lots of "I" in it! 

Tea-break at rosiepink HQ!

A well earned break from writing our new website.  The bunnies and giraffes aren't helping very much as they have never written a website before!  The tea and mini-eggs keep us going though.

Inspired by our love of a good cuppa and the revival in popularity of the tea cosy, we made these...

 

Felt is naturally a great insulator so is perfect for tea cosies - and a little bit of whimsy helps too!