Poinsettia brooch

This nice small Poinsettia I knitted from a kit that came with a knitting magazine. With red and green yarn from the kit I made the leaves, sewed them together en added some small beads. It will make a nice brooch or an ornament for a bag or a hat. Also great to add some flowery sparkle to Christmas (so that is what I call a head start in terms of Christmas knitting 😂)

Little plants in a lamp

I decided to make a hanging plant pot from the glass shade of a broken lamp. I used a bit of the wonderful Ard-thir yarn from Kate Davies designs (in the Glamaig colourway) to crochet a structure in which the glass shade fits and added a small tassel for fun. Even small recycling projects like this deserve nice yarn in my opinion!

Not a dangling conversation

This piece looks a bit like an abstract, but it isn't to me. It depicts a difficult conversation, when you get the feeling there is nothing you can do in order to understand or be understood, it goes right through you and you shrink back.

I used different kinds of paint on a piece of cloth, pencil and stitching. The edges are ruffled and that is kind of fitting, I think.

 

Stitches in the air

This is my take on a workshop with Jean Draper, a textile artist who makes wonderful sculpture work : a raised piece of textured work, consisting of three different layers of structured meshes.

The layers are separately stitched in frames. When they were merged I added some stitching, fabric and paper.

For now the piece is displayed on the wall, allowing the light to filter through, which creates interesting shadows.

These are the different layers, made with different yarns and cords, still on the frames. I actually also like them this way!