12x12 CD pieces

The week has flown by & I've finished 3 of the 6 pieces I'm putting into Inchmore Gallery for selection. It's a very accessible size so there might be some fierce competition!

This is the same ground as last weeks cuffs with turquoise foil added, that is, sweet wrapper foil - chewy mints if I remember rightly. Makes the 'bought' iron  foil go further. 4 little tiles of the same fabric stitched down on top.

I've gone back briefly to the weaving part of my life tho I couldn't for the life of me find the 'official' frame I used before so I wrapped an empty frame. Tied a few bits & pieces then stitched on a couple of beads from an old neclace. I'll have to weave in all the 'hairy' ends so it fits into the CD case.

You'll have seen this before in the form of a book cover or 2 & a collage - I found the heart already stitched to the velvet & added it to some leftover ground. A few beads & stitched painted paper  & I'm pleased so far. Price for a 12x12 CD case full of art? Tricky. I thought they were all ging to be priced the same but I'm not sure.

 

Just caught some daylight with the first 3 pics but here's some out of focus flash work. Just to prove I've made the cuff, along with another earing & brooch. I need to get on, the fairs aren't that far away!

The start of the week

My uncle in law (UIL) & sister in law (SIL) ;) came up last weekend, he over from Co Wicklow, Ireland & she from North Wales, near my DH & her family home on the Lleyn Peninsula. So that means we take time off & get to go out & about around this wonderful Island of ours! First stop was the resevoir hidden in  the hills the other side of Isle Ornsay, about 3 miles away. We drove as close as we could then it's about a mile in along a quad bike track. Except the river crossing the track was in spate & we decided not to try it despite my 2 helpful lads - UIL is 84 next month after all!

So we went thru the woods, precarious to say the least, lots of fences to 'step' over or go thru, one or two muddy cliffy bits over the river but he was unstoppable so we felt the least we could do would be to follow!

They guided us, were encouraging, stood under us in case we fell down the incline (we would have squashed them flat, but an excellent sentiment!) My boys.

So we arrived, it wouldn't have been as exciting if we'd used the normal path.

If it hadn't been a wet, moody misty day there would only have been a trickle to see.

A buzzard's nest on the treacherous journey back.

Maybe we could get a little hydro system going to power these lines.

A few squares - printing with the pill packets, for Jackie, bits & pieces with a big bead tied on, the pill packet stamp itself, some lovely playing with needlefelting - I've been reading my e mag In Stitches - the swallow resist - I saw one today - a flower - I've been making a few of these!

My middlest' GF is 18 next week, so another cuff. He seemed to think she'd like it. ;)

A rather moody  early frosty morning shot. The angle of the sun is changing.

I need to look for some more glitzy buttons, I think.

Slow progress on the bodice front (he, he!) The show is next Saturday!