tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81113438692859415522024-02-06T21:56:45.473-08:00Fibre FascinationMy Creative JourneyJoan - South Island, New Zealand.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04957419229812892187noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111343869285941552.post-81324856127562606832013-06-18T01:46:00.000-07:002013-06-18T01:46:13.035-07:00Tea Bags<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tea bags stitched onto fabric to make a toaster cover.</div>
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Some tea bags are stamped as you can see</div>
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It is amazing what you can do with the humble tea bag.<br />
I do enjoy making something different apart from a cup of tea! This sure fits that category.<br />
Do you agree?<br />
If you google tea bags or tea bag art you may be surprised what you find and it probably isn't<br />
a cup of tea!<br />
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Bye for now<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">J</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">oan</span></div>
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So Sew Simple!<br />
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Some stretchy, soft lacey fabric wrapped around two glasses and secured with stitches gives a very effective look of etched glass. </h3>
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Two little scented candles have been burning for hours and scenting our dining room with a very pleasant scent.</h3>
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Simply effective and a lot of fun.<br />
The candles sit on a little woven mat recently completed by moi.</h3>
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A soft glow from the candles helps to warm the atmosphere whenthe weather outside has turned rather nasty.<br />
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This is very simple and just lovely. A homely touch.<br />
You may like to try it.<br />
I hope so.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Joan</span></h3>
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Autumn and some of its glory is evident in these photos not far from my garden<br />
gate. I was out walking this morning and was delighted to see what had appeared <br />
amongst the layers of autmn leaves.<br />
I just had to fetch our camera and a Grandaughter for this autumnal photo.<br />
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To be quite honest, I think I was more fascinated by these wonders of nature<br />
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.......but she was obliging and made a great subject for my photo. </div>
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My woven tablemat with 'cecile brunner' rose on display.</div>
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I have a selection of fabrics from my natural dyeing experiments. I really enjoy weaving so the above photos show what happened when I wove fabric strips from naturally dyed pieces I have on hand.<br />
There's pink pieces from the bee balm in my garden, a spot of blue from pansy colouring, probably from ice flower dyeing as developed by India Flint.<br />
I added a brown selvidge piece for contrast and interest. (Not dyed by me)<br />
Also, there are one or two other pieces not part of my dyed stash.<br />
This little piece sits on our dining table. I love the rustic appearance of it.<br />
that appeals to me.<br />
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have fun,<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong>J</strong><span style="font-family: Verdana;">oan</span></em></span><br />
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What a great party it has been. I have loved meeting new bloggers. Enjoyed seeing new blogs and receiving many encouraging comments. Having new followers has been part of the party fun. <br />
Thankyou all and especially Vicki for doing the hard yards to make it happen.<br />
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The winner of my giveaway is Betsy's Heartstrings Blog.<br />
She will be receiving her gift soon.</div>
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<em>Thankyou for visiting my blog.</em><br />
<em>I love having visitors and your comments are especially</em><br />
<em>appreciated.</em><br />
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This blog party is an idea of Vicki at<br />
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A little bit about myself...<br />
I live in the South Island of New Zealand. I enjoy gardening, especially when the roses are in full bloom. The scent, colour and variety are a delight to me. <br />
With four grown children our empty nest suddenly comes alive again when our Grandchildren visit.<br />
We have six and we love their visits, bringing with them the 'joy of life.'<br />
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I work with the elderly in a local rest home. This is voluntary work helping with art and crafts and <br />
other activities. I love this and feel that I receive more than I give and have lots of laugh as well.<br />
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I love the photograpy side of blogging as well. I am self taught and am not great at it, but I sure<br />
enjoy playing and having a lot enjoyment and a few surpises too!<br />
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<em><span style="color: #b45f06;">- Margaret Merrill in my garden.-</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #7f6000;">a very beautiful rose</span></em><br />
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This giveaway is a way of saying thankyou to my followers.<br />
Also, I want to encourage others to join in the party fun!</div>
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My giveaway includes a some of my handstitched hearts and a<br />
beautiful vintage doiley to complete the package.<br />
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I hope you will join in. Just leave a comment so I can contact you if you win.<br />
The winner will be drawn on February 1st.</div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Joan</span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">Our Australian bottlebrush has flowered beautifully this season.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">The seeds are bountiful also. I flicked some off the branch and have strung them</span><br />
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This blurry bee accompanied me in my tabletop project.<br />
I shall gather him up very soon and place him in the garden. <br />
We don't have enough bees now. Pretty sad. Too many<br />
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My spiralled wire of beads hangs in my kitchen window to dry.<br />
I wonder how they will be when they are dry.<br />
A fun thing to do anyway.<br />
(Dougal our labrador keeps an eye on me)<br />
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I headed this posting 'My Fathers Hand.' The reason being that I refer to my heavenly Father.<br />
He is the one who created all the wonderful plants, flowers etc. that we are able to enjoy.<br />
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I am really enjoying 2013 and the new opportunities and ideas that abound.<br />
I hope that you too can enjoy this New Year.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Joan</strong></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">(be back soon)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers"<br />
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-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-</span><br />
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<u>Fabric Flowers.</u><br />
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and so it is....... flowers girls need flowers.<br />
The one above is made as a wristlet for a little three year old flower girl.<br />
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May she enjoy being a flowergirl and her day be full of fun.</div>
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(I love those words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's...what a mouthfull! They put a smile on my dial. I hope they do that for you too.)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">J</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">oan</span><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: 0% 50%; border: 0px currentColor; padding: 0px;" /></a></div>
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Pretty in pink.</div>
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Organza, net and other soft fabrics.</div>
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This girl loves these.<br />
I had a go at making the stamens as well this time.<br />
I hope you enjoy them.<br />
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Take care, another weekend is upon us.<br />
We're having a great time with visitors staying and our youngest son arrives home today, for the summer holidays which will be great.<br />
J<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">oan.</span><br />
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I am forever fascinated by sculpted vessels often seen on other blogs etc.<br />
So I decided I would give it a go and loved it.<br />
A large crochet hook and cream wool for the vessel on the left and mixed shades of wool<br />
for the one on the right. Away I went, shaping as I went until I came up with these two individaul<br />
creations. Painted with acrylic paints, embellished with beads and they became more like I imagined they would be. The paint stiffened the wool. Blue coated wire enhances the smaller one.<br />
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A great little project to nurture your creativity.<br />
Will you try it?<br />
Let me know.<br />
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<strong>Do what you can with what you have, where you are.<br />
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~ Theodore Roosevelt ~</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bye for now<br />
J</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">oan</span></div>
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Two large lidded barrells were donated to this resthome where I help out with activities.<br />
Last week they were brought out of the cupboard and the task of covering them in a de coupage resthome style began. One is being covered in torn sheet music and the other has a fashion theme from magazine pictures. The barrells will be used to store hats on completion. I'm sure they will look classy.<br />
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We make the main thing, the main thing. That is, we have lots of fun and laughter.<br />
Often we also have a messy time as seen in the photos. Pack up your troubles,<br />
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I'm sure you will agree.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A black canvas,(photo doesn't show this) old sheet music dyed with <br />
coffee grains, a layered fabric flower, and fluffy white feather.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
This is my first attempt at canvas art.<br />
More to come I think!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Its not a great photo. Nevermind, I think you can get the general idea. I hope so!</span><br />
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</span><em><span style="font-size: large;">Another weekend is nearly upon us.<br />
Lets have a good one!<br />
Joan.</span></em></div>
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To me, this says it all.<br />
A beautiful place I call home.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well, I have had major issues with postings. Actually I'm still having them. I just can't get photos to upload. A blog without photos just doesn't work!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I know its all to do with google accounts, logging in etc. I need my son home from university to sort this one. </span><br />
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With the rain pouring down and puddles in the paddock forming lakes of water about to pour across the road, my Grandchildren and i kept warm and dry inside by the fire.<br />
Then the phone rang.<br />
A friend asking if I thought it was a good idea to travel a distance up the road to buy a few dozen eggs for<br />
some old friends in town?<br />
Well, if you get stuck G. who on earth is going to pull you out?<br />
Was there ever any question to this?<br />
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<em>p.s. I am over people pleasing, especially in conditions like that.</em><br />
<em>the eggs can wait.</em><br />
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Do you agree?<br />
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Bring on the sunshine.<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Joan</em></span></div>
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An afternoon of machine stitching with strips of fabric wound round some garden twine was just the therapy I needed after a busy week. I have seen these made by one or two bloggers and I have been wanting to have a go for a while. Most use chord of some sort to wind their fabric around. I didn't have any on hand so I used what was available, i.e. garden twine. I think it worked just fine.<br />
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Another weekend is about to unfold.<br />
I hope it is a good one for you.<br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">Joan.</span></em></div>
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The shirt was pre soaked in vinegar and salt then spread with my plant material, rolled up<br />
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The bee balm was happy to provide some colour for this tired old shirt.<br />
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Those rusty colours and charcoal grey came from two bulldog clips helping to hold the fabric<br />
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The grey/charcoal colouring came from two large paperclips. They also produced<br />
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I steamed the shirt, tightly rolled in my dye pot for two hours.<br />
It really was fun way to spend a few hours.<br />
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If you want to do something different and feel like playing, I recommend giving this a go.<br />
Heaps of fun and the results are surprising. Some colours may not be colourfast but thats all<br />
part of the process. The colours are interesting and if they don't work first time round you can always have another go using different plant materials and techniques.<br />
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<strong><em>I wonder how many of my readers</em></strong><br />
<strong><em>enjoy dyeing with plants?</em></strong><br />
<strong><em>Would love to hear from you.</em></strong><br />
<strong><em>Cheers,</em></strong><br />
<strong><em>Joan.</em></strong><br />
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A work in progress. First begun at the Wanaka Embroidery School. Now the end is in sight.<br />
What will I do with this? I'm tempted to frame it.<br />
What do you suggest.? </div>
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You will find my post on the beginning of this project at the <a href="http://fibrefascination.blogspot.co.nz/search?q=Wanaka+embroidery+school">Wanaka Embroidery School</a><br />
It has been resting for a while.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Enjoy!</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Joan</em></span></div>
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Flowers (and other bits) that I have made over time. Using all sorts of fabric, buttons and trims, lace and so on. I now have a collection which I call "fascination flowers.' Oh yes, and they are made with love. <br />
I don't know about you, but my favourites are the soft lacey ones in the middle photo. They were coloured with tea bags to get the tea coloured effect obviously!<br />
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Will be back soon,<br />
Our weather is absolutely beautiful right now. Day after day.<br />
Should be out in the garden amongst the real flowers.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cheers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Joan.</span></em></span></div>
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The coloured glass windows of the entrance doorways frame the beautiful countryside.<br />
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A garden surrounds the buildings.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMWzVANS31nyYJUGR5IgN8otvbo16HHhPR2dPPC37Q-g8HJbYewWNCmCIpN_vD_ROaFCDW8ZtNeI9CJtcx8HwwKzPTyl1p_Mp5X7LI4lroOwCDtdwIxX8kdgWeAX0EWg-iRJi4h2o5g283/s1600/DSC04952.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMWzVANS31nyYJUGR5IgN8otvbo16HHhPR2dPPC37Q-g8HJbYewWNCmCIpN_vD_ROaFCDW8ZtNeI9CJtcx8HwwKzPTyl1p_Mp5X7LI4lroOwCDtdwIxX8kdgWeAX0EWg-iRJi4h2o5g283/s400/DSC04952.JPG" /></a><br />
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The rural view from the front doors reveals a fantastic vista through to Waiamate.<br />
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Te Kiteroa , a lovely place to stay I would think.<br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Life has thrown some challenges of late but i am looking forward to getting back to my stitching and fabrics etc. <br />
After all it is food for my soul, and thats what I'm craving for.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
Joan.</span></em><br />
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I have featured this needlework on my blog before. <br />
This time I do so in memory of my Mum. She passed away last Friday. <br />
She lived a good and long life.<br />
Needlework was one of her loves. <br />
This piece is truly a piece of perfection.<br />
It is a tray cloth.<br />
p.s. this is some of Mum's needlework.<br />
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<em>in loving memory of Mum</em><br />
<em><strong>Joan.</strong></em></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I love to hear from you. Share some thoughts with me and my visitors by clicking on 'comments' below.
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