exploring fibre- needlefelting

Finally I am back on exploring new ways to work with Fibres!
I have been needle felting with silk, banafibre and viscose on a cotton batting.
Don't now how it is possible, but it turned out in another landscape.......

Long a go I was an avid machineknitter,and from this era there were some unfinished objects, I picked a sleeve and felted the landscape on it.
With a combination of viscose and silk I crocheted a treelike structure(freeform)
and felted and sewed it on the background
All together it looks quite nice to me.....

October 29th,weddingday Adri en Ype

Today is our weddinganniversary.... the 32nd
And the 10th anniversary my husband is so missed
But sure a day to remember!
And a dress to remember.....



October 29,1976.
On August 31, I bought the yarn and started crocheting.
The day before the wedding it was completed in a little less than 2 months.
The little cap I crocheted using a pattern of a fur cap from a magazine of 1953, thatI accidentally crossed.

My mother crocheted the upper part of the dress and made a dark green lining,
she made a little bag of the same material using an old silver ornament, that was used in the 1800's by an early relative.
It was part of the official Frisian costumes of that times. At that time we didn't know your custom of something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. Only the blue thing was missing because I also borrowed a pair of crocheted gloves of my MIL. I did not wear them. My shoes had the same colour of the lining of the dress and the colour of my husband 's suit was the same too."

Exhibition!

Journals in Picture by the Journal Quilting Group : AFIER

Given the succes of this exhibition last year in Groningen it will be held again between 14 March on the 11th of April 2009 in the museum Het Leids Wevershuis in Leiden.
The exhibition is a collection of quilts which portrey the visualization of journal entries on the scale of A-4 paper.
Another 20 larger quilts will also be displayed.
Apart from the size a journal quilt should visualize something from the creators life that would appear in their personal diary.

The quilts have been made by a group of about 20 quilters using various techniques apart from only needlework.
Beads, paper, tyvek and even rusty nails are just some examples of the materials used.

In the weekends during the exhibition several demonstrations will be given on topics such as fabric printing and punching with the embellisher machine, a method of making felt with a big variety of fabrics. For more details about the group go to:

http://dagboekquilts.wordpress.com/

The Wevershuis is open from Tuesday thru Sunday from 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm.
For more details about the museum go to :

http://www.wevershuis.nl/over_museum.shtml

Combine a visit to the exhibition with a tour through the beautiful city of Leiden as 2009 is The Pilgrim Year in Leiden.
For more information:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~netlapm/Page01.htm

freeform challenge!!!!!!

We are proud to announce the opening of our
2008 International Freefrom Fiberart Guild Challenge:
"Through Our Eyes"
http://www.intff.org

Myra Wood organized a great Challenge on the international freeformcrochetgroup...
I joined in a bunch of great artists, from all over the world...
You must see them all!
When you like to see them on paper as well, you even can order a book with all the entries!!!!

Bakersdozengroup,a challenge'my favourite thing'

The Bakersdozen is a group where 13 ,a bakersdozen is an important item!
There are 13 members in a group for one challenge, the quilt is 13x13 inch!
For the first challenge I made my favourite chair, but put it in a favourite setting.

That fact gives the quilt a little surreal shine.
Below you see some pictures how I started this quilt.

Quilt Art challenge doll-meet Hortense

Another challenge finished....
Jill Smith organised an Artdoll challenge, make an alter ego doll, or make a quilt with a doll
I did both!
I made a doll, clothed it with felted and crocheted garments.
I called her Hortense,purely by coincidence I gave her the colors of a hydrangea,Hortensia in dutch,so hortense is quite suitable
Then I printed a photo and quilted that.....
Looks rather trashy, but perhaps my alter-ego would be a trashy person??????