Needles, Beads and Buttons

I finished making the "blue dandelion felted bag" in Clare Youngs book "Scandinavian Needlecraft." I'm pretty pleased, although I did make a few changes. The embroidery was pretty straight forward. I used Dritz Tracing Paper  to transfer the design on to a piece of felt. I then embroidered it with navy blue DMC embroidery floss. The embroidery design calls for using bullion knots, daisy stitch,whipped backstitch, detached chain stitch, chain stitch and backstitch. Instructions for all of the stitches used can be found in the book. The bag is not rectangular in nature. It's a trapezoid.  Prior to embroidering the dandelion I drew my initial pattern on a piece of freezer paper, ironed it to the fabric and then cut it out. I was worried about my symmetry and things not lining up. To combat that I used my initial piece of embroidered fabric as a template. I just stacked everything up, set the first piece of felt on top and then used a rotary cutter t...

What a long week. I'm currently having a ton of issues with my websites. I can't seem to upload photos to any of them, with the exception of this one.  I'm sure Geek will sort it out soon enough, but we're on opposite schedules. With limited time together we have to prioritize what gets done. We got our official, but gentle hand slap from the HOA reminding us to get rid of the moss on the roof. So Geek spent his last day off up on the roof brushing off moss and applying the Moss Out . Boy were we tempted to just go the Tide route . To reward ourselves for his hard work, we went to the zoo because Kitty hadn't seen the seals yet, and that's more important than web stuff. We stopped to see some of the big kitties too. We didn't know it at the time, but I think this picture was taken the day after the lion tried to eat that baby dressed like a zebra.   Same zoo I think. Instead, we got photos of Kitty feeding the Lorikeets. Not as exciting, but s...