A wonderful planet

Best wishes to you all for 2023!

My wishes are accompanied by this embroidered piece, which shows four seasons in one day on this planet, full of luscious greenery and delicious clear water. 

The design is my own, inspired by a workshop led by Livia Papiernik. It’s a relatively small piece, 20 cm x 20 cm, but it required a lot of stitching! 

I used silk thread, Jamieson & Smith wool yarn and all kinds of other thread, with various stitches and beads, mostly recycled, some of which I made myself.

Let’s hope for a lovely and inspiring new year!!

Christmas wreath with robins and holly

A simple wreath I decorated with needle-felted holly leaves with beads as berries. Two pompom robins are resting merrily on a branch. For the pom-poms I used wonderful Jamieson’s DK from Shetland.

The birds I made during online speedcrafting with the lovely Helen Robertson from Shetland!

Happy Christmas to everyone 😊🎄💚

Autumnal walk

An autumn walk, what's not to like? I Love all the seasons (though slightly less enthousiastic about winter in February, March I must admit), with a preference for autumn. All these beautiful colours, bright and muted, gave me the inspriation for this stitched piece with appliqué. I used some tweed fabric and some pieces of paper packaging. 

OK, enough stitching and talking now, let's go for that walk!

Christmas speedcrafting

Last Christmas I joined two speedcrafting sessions with Helen Robertson.

On the one evening we knitted an owl:

The other we made a Christmas pudding, which started us chatting about Christmas traditions and food from around the world. We were a group of people from the US, Shetland, Iceland, Sweden, England, Scotland and Belgium, so it got very interesting, we all got hungry and we had some great laughs! This is the World Wide Web at its best!

I used Shetland’s Jamieson’s spindrift yarn.

I gave the Christmas pudding to my little bear, who was very pleased: