Resting on Someone Else's Laurels!

I said I would try to make my blog more interesting! The picture above is a detail from a long panel our youngest daughter made in felt, then added stitching, beads, etc. The lettering includes all the names of the shipping areas around the British Isles. She has had a long fascination for the shipping forecast and meteorology. I apologise for not getting a better shot, and as it hangs in a corner of a small room stuffed with furniture and boxes, I was unable to get it in full. It needs to be seen close up to appreciate all the detail.



Said daughter has recently moved a lot of her stuff into our smallest bedroom and I have designated it her 'studio'. She has so little space in her own home and needed somewhere she could work on things then go away and leave them, rather than have to pack everything away again.

She is also very interested in Russian art and made the above bag from various scraps of fabric and ribbons. St.Basil's Cathedral is painted directly onto the fabric with metallic paints.

Another passion of hers is crows - corvids in general but especially crows. I just love this bag - she made the felt then dry felted the crow - I envy her talent. When I think of my four years of City and Guilds Embroidery and various courses since and the fact that she did 'O'level Textiles at school then a one day feltmaking course a few years ago, I wonder if I should give up altogether.

Another felted and stitched piece which has been manipulated and beaded .......................

............................ and one last manipulated felted piece with added fabrics and stitching.

Perhaps these photos of her work brought me luck as I had no problem today in getting them onto the laptop and then posting them on here. I think all computers and laptops should come with a warning! No-one tells you how contrary they can be.

An update on the fly situation: thankfully they are noticeable by their absence today, so I hope we have seen the last of them - I vacuumed up the last few this morning. They are quite clever and have managed to avoid the fly papers. One has one fly on it, another has three and the third, none at all. How's that for bloody-mindedness? All I have to do now is clean the windows!