You Make Me Smile

A spread in my altered book Rooie. The funny face is drawn by my husband, it made me smile!

Tachtig

I made this ornament for my mother’s 80^th birthday. I embroidered the seams with tied herringbone stitch, feather stitch, up and down buttonhole stitch, French knots and feathered chain stitch. The beads came from old pieces of jewellery from my youngest daughter. She’s still in Cape Town and this way she kind of joined the party.

Time well spent

A spread in my altered book Rooie. The background of my collage is acrylic paint and paper napkins.

Teesha Moore inspired cat patches

Last year I participated in a series of swaps for Teesha Moore inspired patches. This swap was cat themed. I used a scrap of cute cat fabric for my patch and decorated it with running stitch, stem stitch, French knots, a button and letter beads.

And this is the cute patch Jenny made for me. Se used a cat selvedge and pretty beads on it! Jenny wrote about the making of this patch here.

Top 2000 Party: day 2-7

Not long after posting my spreads for the first day of Marit’s Top 2000 Party, my computer crashed. Of course I continued making my spreads. Now I have a new computer, so I can share them today in this post. Clicking the photos will bring you to the song at YouTube.

1502 Yellow Submarine - The Beatles

1433 Living Doll - Cliff Richard & The Young Ones

1403 Damn Those Eyes – Kane

1087 Shout! - Tears for Fears

991 Bicycle Race - Queen

711 In The Dutch Mountains - Nits 

596 Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel 

509 Flappie - Youp van ‘t Hek 

285 Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC 

79 Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel 

1 Imagine- John Lennon

Birthday card for Ritva

Ritva was the last birthday girl in the Fibre Fever group. I trapped a few sequins between organza and fabric. I used stacked herringbone stitch, chain stitch and crossed buttonhole stitch to secure them. The edge of the organza is secured with cross stitches.

Happy New Year