Flaming June

About a fortnight since my last blog and I have been so busy.   I knitted several scarves for the Craft Fair at West Derby but only one sold - a lovely black, white and grey one.   In the week after, I seemed to be quite productive, another 8 blocks for the quilt - 52 and counting.   I'm afraid it seems to have come to a halt for the moment, but I'll get back to it eventually.  Here's a picture of one of the scarves in shades of jade green - they're all in really wonderful colours

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The felt poppies I made weren't so disappointing after all, they sold so well that I have made (and sold) 2 more. I think I'll have to make even more!  Most of the  maple leaf shapes which I stiffened were, I thought, too stiff so it's back to the drawing board on that one. All was not lost, however, I managed to get the stiffening out of them and have made some lovely, brooches in autumnal shades-in fact I think autumn is already here - it certainly doesn't feel like June!

The corsage which I planned to make out of organza turned out so well that I made another one as well.  The first one was in shades of fuchsia and purple and will be going on holiday with me to be worn on a black dress.   The other one, in shades of jade green (a favourite colour of mine) sold in the blink of an eye at Ormskirk last Saturday.

Speaking of which, we had a lovely day in Ormskirk at the Chapel Gallery.   It is always a pleasure to go there, everyone is so helpful and cheerful.    Margaret from the Soap Corner in Halsall was great company and we swapped some ideas for new products.   Apart from that, it was quite a quiet day but I sold lots of cards and several brooches and Liz sold some scarves so it was most successful.

For a couple of weeks now I've been experimenting with felt and nuno felting - small pieces,  to see what happens!   I've made some pretty flower brooches - pink and white merino wool on a diaphanous white fabric - the composition of which I'm uncertain - I don't think it's silk.   Whatever it is,  it puckers up nicely and is very effective - I made a corsage of 3 flowers which was beautiful and also sold at Ormskirk.   Another one, from the same batch is shown below - it reminds me of a  peony.

On Sunday, we ventured as far a Barton, near Preston, to quite a large craft fair.  Unfortunately, it was a horrible day and not a lot of people braved the elements.    Again, we met some lovely, interesting people, Anne, Sandra and Coleen, who made the day go quickly.  

Now, it's catch up time - I've got a little felt landscape picture and some experimental, 3 dimensional,  poppy buds to finish and some Lake District prints to mount.  Oh, and I forgot the umpteen photos waiting to be uploaded and 'photoshopped' - I may be some time!