Fabric, threads and a sewing machine

No idea how this has happened. Me the absolute sewing phobic has become obsessed with all things fabric. I even went out and bought a sewing machine. Not the all singing dancing one I might have liked to buy, but one that meets my needs at a much lesser price! Whilst I was at it I bagged an embellisher for my Christmas (2009) present from DH, and they have both had plenty of use.

My first fabric postcard swap. Crazy patchwork, with fabric flowers cut from organza using a soldering iron.
This one is layers of organza,stitched with different threads and cut away in places. Centre of the flower is a largish bead surrounded by small ones.

Oh my, this has changed a lot since I last posted on here! It took me ages to actually get into my blog! I'll need to have a good look around to get familiar with all the changes!

In the meantime I thought I might post some pictures of what I've been up to in the last few months (years!) These wont be in any order, but I will try and give details of what I've done.

Long time

It's a long time since I posted to my blog, my how time does fly. I do intend to get up to date, or at least post some pics of art I've made.
Actually my new laptop has nudged me to get on here, there is a feature called Live Writer, which means I can write my blog and upload pictures without actually having to go to the blog. The programme then uploads it when you say so. But, when I tried to set it up, it recognized that I didn't have an active blog , so like a good little girl I am doing as I am told and posting so that it now becomes active. LOL

Tyvek Paper

Adrienne has a swap running, which requires the use of 'fabric paper'. Here are the pieces that I have been playing with over the last few days. The challenge now is to use them for something!

I used Tyvek paper for my base. For the first two I used tissue, and serviettes for the images, the second two were gift wrapping paper. I used very watered metallic acrylics to add the colour.

Tip Ins

The theme for Sweetpea's tip in swap for July was Time.
Here is my offering. I wanted to get away from 'Clocks', so I hoped this would work.



For Karen's birthday I decided to make her a tip in instead of a birthday card. I think she liked it !

Angel Pages

Most of the last month was taken up with creating pages for an 'Angelic' book swap. There were 12 people in each group, and there were 6 groups, but I signed up for 3. Some greedy art hogs signed for all six lol! I have got almost all of my 36 pages now, just a couple to come, and with 3 of my own that makes a really chunky book. I am thinking of how to bind them and what to do for covers at the moment. The artwork I have received has been amazing. Here are my pages:

Deco Books

A few deco- books have come my way in the last month. Here is what I did for them:


For Denise R

For Maggi G

For Sweetpea