More bags

I have just finished 3 more bags and have started another! I'm not too sure about the buttons, I found some nice ones for my last bag, but unfortunately they didn't have any left .


I've been quite busy, but would you believe I forgot to take photos? I am catching up with some swaps and finished an Arch which I embellished and then digitized an Egyptian image. It had been quite a while since I did any digitizing with my Artista Software, I have a Bernina Artista 180. My friend Joan has just bought a Janome 10000and I was trying to use her simple Janome software that came with the machine. I have not found this little program very easy. I wonder if anyone reading this use it?

Day 4

Here are just a few things that I have been doing here at Tan y Bwlch in the last couple of days.


Sesga of sesga loves 1950's came to visit us and we had a lovely afternoon together. She brought some of her lovely dollies to show as I'd wanted to see them and above she's chatting with Gaynor.


And watching Mary painting.


Here's a cartoon Joan stitched of me standing with my whip, forcing her to get on with her computer.


This is another bag I finished.


I'm also getting on with my sketching.

And relaxing with my laptop.

2nd day Working Holiday

I've just finished another bag and I've nearly finished a 2nd one, so you see I really am working on this holiday. But I'm also taking photos, laughing and eating and taking a few short walks. We are very well looked after here.



This photo of a flower bed was taken early this morning and there's a closeup of one of the lovely flowers. I thought the colours matched my bag.

Working holiday!

These are photos of the view from my room here at Plas Tan y Bwlch yesterday afternoon.
The members of SerenTex, the textile group I belong to have been having a little retreat here now for 6 or 7 years, when we each work on whatever we want and learn from each other. Last night I was too tired to do much, other than give Joan a little lesson on PSP. Maybe we are all the same, but whenever I'm going somewhere like this I tire myself out preparing, usually taking as many things from my workroom as I can carry. But this year at the last minute I decided to leave many of them at home. Bringing my Computer, sketchbook and fabric to finish some bags I'm making.
Over on the SerenTex site I hope to share with you some of the things we are all doing.

Bags

Some of you might remember that we were using Ton Shulten's work to inspire us at SerenTex a while ago and I have continued to design felt along the same lines, but they have now lost the Ton feel along the way and become my own. I'm using the felted pieces to make bags that I'm very pleased with. The next issue of Fibre and Stitch will have the instructions on making this bag using the embellisher.


The bag below was made this week using the silk painting inspired by the work of Zandra Rhodes some time ago. I always make a little prototype of any new design and this is one of them. The shape can be changed to suit but this one will be useful to hold my hair setting rollers, brushes and a small hairdryer.