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Everything packed away in daughter's car
so we can make an early start tomorrow !
ZEIST
here we come !

A  10 x 10 cm stitched piece on canvas, a cat in the 
Night Garden

And the latest belt pouch
FIRE
also finished

I think the weather will be okay
so I hope to  SEE  some of you there !!!

For the upcoming Art Market in ZEIST
on the 24th of August
I started with a hew
fish

To make sharp colour edges
is it easiest to work with pre-felt
and the industrial pre-felt is nice and even . . .
BUT, I don't have that many colours of it.

That left me with the problem to lay out my wool tops
in a way that the edges were still sharp,
but where I could, I used the pre-felt

second side . . .

and making the cut for the mouth
to remove the resist.

First the inside colour, then,
the second layer, the colours on the flap
and a sleeve at the back for the belt.

Securing the edge after the cut to remove the resist
and I like to secure things with some (non-felting) stitches

(and I still have a belt to make !)

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And again . . . we have sweet house guests

I've made a lot of birds
since the first little robin
after the workshop of Mandy Pattullo in Stitch Club.
And then along came Ann Smith of Persimmon Stdio Art
(during the fun week of "Making ZEN")
she had this mini workshop making a zipper pouch
with a blackbird on it.
No pouch for me, but the blackbird was a good idea
for the 20 x 20 cm background
that was lying around for a while, with nothing on it.

I loved Ann's idea of nót only using black.

After the bird was attached I stitched the background
(after adding a bit of my "magic thread")

She made the little dog portraits the way Susie Vickery taught us in SC !

Not all the workshops in STITCH CLUB \
were for me the last month.
There were some hospital visits
(over again now) 
and some books to read
and older SC-work to finish.

Angie Hughes' workshop about "Indian memories"
was the start for a new garden-inspired one instead.

Though I started the way she explained,
in the end I removed all the stiff backing
and didn't use any glue (!)
Stitching it all together was much more to my liking !!!

But using stamps to print one's own fabric was fun !

The embossed foil didn't end up in the final piece though.

Detail with the found felt flower
(it never became the brooch that was intended . . .
but now it found it's home here ! )

Hospital-waiting time was great for this small piece,
but it took some time to give it the finishing touch.
Now it's ready to stitch on a painted 20 x 20 cm canvas.

(I started this one when I was nearly finished with the bigger piece
with the Aconites and the Snowdrops)

 The time of those little yellow beauties is long over.
Even the Rowan tree in front of the house has already
lost its delicate white flowers . . .

Yes, I'm slowly recovering of October :
I missed two workshops
but this last one by Emily Jo Gibbs
I didn't want to miss !!!

I LOVE her delicate "hazy" way she works
and immensely enjoyed the Stitch Challenge last year.

Though I don't have the "needed" silk organza's
I have lots of different colours in synthetic sheers.
They are not as sophisticated as silk, but they do work similarly
and tulle worked fine for the overlay.

Though it's autumn and the trees are bare
I looked at my pictures of the lovely
wild apple tree (Malus) in our garden
that flowers so proudly in spring !

Today we had to say goodbye
to our very old lady cat friend

 BELLA 

21 years, 4 months and 4 days

A very respectable age
(surely for a pedigree cat !)
but therefore not less missed !

She was tired and thin in the end
but still enjoyed sitting or napping on your lap
and being part of our family.

Blue Bella and her big brown brother Bagheera
were in fact daughter's cats.
But some circumstances made it better at some point
if they stayed with us,
and as daughter and the kids live in the same village
they still were their cats, but ours too.

In January 2017
we had to say goodbye to Bagheera.
Bella missed him at first very much
but then had the pleasure of finally having all our attention to herself
(because she always had been "second", after her big brother)

Dear little Bella
THANK  YOU
for your sweet company
we will all miss you very much !

BELLA
22-7-2000   -    26-11-2021

When you have a pet
you never know in advance
how long you will enjoy its company.
We (kind of) inherited daughter's Burmese cats
(brother and sister)

has her  21st  birthday today !!!

Well,
she doesn't jump on the kitchen counter anymore
(but I have to lift her up)
to have her drops of water from the tap,
(which is much better than the water in your bowl !!)
she walks slowly and a bit shaky,
but she loves her food
(tells us when it's REALLY time for a bit more,
and asks for her cat treats
when Man comes down in the morning,
she loves to sit on your lap
but thinks her cushion is a fine place too
as long as we place it on the floor in the sun
or even outside.

She is a dear old lady
and all of us hope to have her around still a bit longer

There are now some new felted pieces
but . . .
 not dry yet !
So there is no other option
than to make something else !
Hmmmmm
a fish perhaps ???
Out of some (commercial) felt ?

My PINK  RIBBON  Textile Jewel
for day 9 :

a fish brooch out of felt, with a tiny strip of mesh,

Oh my
the old lady . . .
is she interested or not 
???