With a few clear days on our calendar, Annabelle and I invited our best girls (Hi, J! Hi, G!) for a little extended sleep over. They were also coming to fetch a special gift I made for their loved one's birthday (a portrait of the "new family camp" alongside the "old family camp").
When I was not stitching up add-ons (like this loon A. and G. insisted was absolutely necessary at the zero hour), we could be found eating diner food, singing along to fifties tunes (think "Cupid" and "Next Door to an Angel"), and making jersey snoods for ourselves in shades of red, gray, and mossy green.
There was a little terminology confusion when I suggested the scarf project--my best friend of over 20 years thought I was proposing we make little knit bags for our hair.
What? We cleared it up, though, and she went home with a warm and stylish neck and a clarified notion of my personal style, thanks very much. (I don't even have long hair.
What?)
With a few clear days on our calendar, Annabelle and I invited our best girls (Hi, J! Hi, G!) for a little extended sleep over. They were also coming to fetch a special gift I made for their loved one's birthday (a portrait of the "new family camp" alongside the "old family camp").
When I was not stitching up add-ons (like this loon A. and G. insisted was absolutely necessary at the zero hour), we could be found eating diner food, singing along to fifties tunes (think "Cupid" and "Next Door to an Angel"), and making jersey snoods for ourselves in shades of red, gray, and mossy green.
There was a little terminology confusion when I suggested the scarf project--my best friend of over 20 years thought I was proposing we make little knit bags for our hair. What? We cleared it up, though, and she went home with a warm and stylish neck and a clarified notion of my personal style, thanks very much. (I don't even have long hair. What?)
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Wow, this is really wonderful! I love all of the work you do, every time I look at your blog I get inspired and think I might could do that...hopefully someday soon I'll try...with full credit to you of course;)
Thanks, Nichole--and definitely do try it! In all honestly, I just dove in and experimented, and I'm still learning as I go. Felt is very forgiving of trial and error. Trust me!
Your newest masterpiece has me dreaming of summer. I love it! And the Aspen trees are just perfect!
literally, dear. every time you post something new, you are blowing my mind. aside from the fact that i now want to go there and listen to that loon and dip my toes in by the cattails.... i mean, for real? those trees? that bird? love, love, LOVE it M.
Thanks, ladies. This one has me yearning for summer, too.
Annabelle was right about the loon :) I love it but this Minnesota girl might be slightly biased. Love seeing your houses (cabins) again - your felt architecture is always divine.
Wow! Amazing detail!
That loon! I love how the stitches are so few and spare but so evocative.
But a snood is a little knit bag for your hair...isn't it? Now I'm confused!
so beautiful work..
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Well, apparently it is! But I had been reading a British blog, wherein those mobius scarves were called snoods, so that's what I meant. She wasn't wrong in her terminology, just wrong about her best friend. ;-)
Love this !!!
I wandered over here from Birch Swinging, jumping about as bloggers do. I'm speechless. Hooked. Inspired. Wow. I used to live in New Hampshire, so the loons and I have a special relationship. Love, love, love.
Thanks for your sweetness--so glad you jumped over!
this is some fine, fine work melissa. good gracious! (and right on with the loon girls)
Hi Melissa - I love the new way you are experimenting with "framing" the feltwork (in a square / rectangle as opposed to hoops) - I have just tried hoops so far.
Would you mind sharing the materials you used and how you went about it? I would love to try this method!
Thanks for posting your work. I always leave here inspired with another project to try.
Hugs from Norway, Michelle
Hi, Michelle, and thanks!
Essentially the method is the same; I just sew the felt pieces directly onto a pre-stretched linen canvas (regular white canvases work, too--it just depends on the look you want, and you could certainly also stretch your own with whatever kind of fabric you wanted); sometimes with bigger pieces of felt, I use a spray adhesive to attach them before sewing--this helps keep the large piece from sagging and keeps it in place during stitching (since I can pin).
That is really cute! Looks like a real to me.
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