New makes and a Giveaway.
I hope you have all had a great Christmas and here's to a fun 2011. I'm going to start as I mean to go on and keep my creative side in full swing. I am putting some Hydraengea flower heads in my Etsy shop, they are made of velvet and come in gorgeous vintage colours. Just to give you an idea, this is something I made yesterday. I started with a piece of dyed and felted wool blanket, some merino wool tops and a piece of embellished net fabric. The first piece of blanket was a shade of grey but I forgot to take the picture, you know how it is,too much on the go. I used my embellisher to felt the merino wool on to the fabric, I didn't overwork it so it stayed nice and soft. You could also do this with a hand held felter the results are the same. Next I used the embellisher to attach a strip of the net fabric, I love how it leaves a frill around the edges. Here you can see I've free machined a design over the felted fabric and add