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  • adding buttons

    ok  so after a day of travel to pick up a new toy for me I am posting the latest on the jacket which is the buttons –made as described before but with the addition of some simple embroidery using… Continue reading

  • Jacket continued

    Well another week nearly over and I am feeling ‘stircrazy’ although my shoulder hurts I have to play with my fibres –one handed of course. here is a collage of all the pieces joined together, and on the silky sides… Continue reading

  • week one

    Here  I am at the endof week one post op and feeling a lot better than last Friday.The pain is down by about 50% and although I have not yet slept right through the night I am ever hopeful every… Continue reading

  • New Nuno

    Hi sorry to have left you all mid way through the new top but have been laid low with a virus which is just what I did not need prior to my surgery so have spent 2 days lying down… Continue reading

  • More with the Top

    fabrics ready and drying stitching prefelts in a row with an overlapped seam of about 5cms –place them to suit you remembering the ones in themiddle will be at your backall now done silks drying in chosen shades needlefelts dyed… Continue reading

  • Next Nuno Top

     This is going to be a sleeveless top hopefully made to wear 4 ways ,inside out,rightway,upsidedown,and rightwayup  so here we go 4 pieces of silk 80cms by 75cms lay on top of 4 pieces of needlefelt and felt to prefelt… Continue reading

  • Felt covered buttons for Nuno jacket

    1.cut circle of felt large enough for button front                                                                                       2 gather  around edge and pull up   3gather tighter . 4. gather tighter as you place it over buttonfront ,then click back on and push hard 5 .button ready to… Continue reading

  • Buttonholes

    Binding buttonholes on Nuno I do like bound buttonholes on garments especially on Nuno jackets so theChrissie Day felt BOUND BUTTONHOLES PDF‘  is here if you do not know how to do it –it really is easy. Continue reading

  • silk colours sampled with fibres

    needed to see colour design felted down to check —quite pleased with this, maybe needs more blue for me after an afternoon spent dyeing and splodging (like a child) I use a dye that I can set in the microwave… Continue reading

  • Splishing and sploshing

    lovely messy dyeing day==== look under tutorials under nuno– under silks –trying to be organised for now . I will have to have help when my shoulder is healing so have been forced into tidying up my drawers etc as… Continue reading

Felt,Stitch and Embellish fibres

Felt,Stitch and Embellish fibres

Felt,Stitch and Embellish fibres