jens collaborative cloth.....

 

 

 

 

I was so excited to my cloth back as part of a collaborative effort bw Jacky , Dot , Shirley and myself.... I mean just look at all this deliciousness...:)

Jacky added some of her eco dyed fabrics including this moon and gorgeous lace and fabric on the top angel...love the wild hair , think the other angel needs some too....

and also some lovely colored embroidery....

this looks like a bit of dots handiwork with the beads and little birdy....

 

I still  need to find out what Shirley did too..... it just has so much going on that I am always finding things with it :)



Jacky also sent me this lovely cloth, I absolutely adore the fabrics and her wonderful stitching....

.......thank you ladies for inviting me  , it was such a wonderful experience to participate in and opened up a whole new world :)

 

.........and I had something portable to do at craft on Wednesdays :)

 

stitching......

íts been lovely to get back into some stitching....I find it quite mediative...

first of all I had to get jackys gorgeous horse cloth done and sent off......

I had been wanting to try some feathers and was quite happy how these turned out....other than that I just added bits of sari cloth and played around with different stitches and threads....

 

I think its hard to be in the middle of the collaborative as its difficult to know how much to do ...have I done enough..??.not enough???.... got to leave space for two others to work on.... but I loved doing it :)

and then there was Tedda.......remember how I fixed him up before he went on holiday to Denmark. well, in less than a week,  he is jetsetting off to Denmark  for month to visit his host families with Charlie and then off to Ireland to a spot of nannying, au pairing to 3 young girls for 6 months......:) Charlies host mums have been fantastic and when they heard she was coming, they started organising amongst themselves who would pick her up from the airport, who she would stay with......she's a lucky girl .....

unfortunately while in Denmark last time, Ted a had run in with a cat and came home in a bad state of disrepair....

                                                                       
                                                                         bad cat((((

of course that was  only two years ago now and of course he needed to be fixed before he set off again........the thing that I enjoy while repairing ted is that there is no pressure. I can experiment and play around with scraps, cos lets face it.... anything is an improvement :)

his face was a challenge though..i didn't want to alter it too much and totally change his character....

so here he is...soon there wont be anything any original fabric left to stitch onto....

 

and I lost the other red button but quite like this one  I found....

 

some bling on his face and roses on his butt cut from French ribbon faye bought in Paris...

 

 

 

Charlie had sewn a Danish coin on his arm while she was os, which I reattached ....

all finished....:)

 

wonder what the Irish family will make of him :)

 

he needs a wash but im not game in case he falls apart......