Making felt Mice families

A lot has been happening in the last week and all good things.

Orders coming in and beautiful comments about the blog, pity is not written here.

Yesterday I finished the week going with a few friends to the NEC in Birmingham, to a Craft Hobby and Stitch fair.

I met very interesting people, wonderful wool for my new dolls and I attended a seminar about blogging! Yes, still learning!.

 It was run by Rosie and Hannah, their blog is called The New Craft Society. 

Have a look at it, they use old crafting techniques in more modern and stylish ways.

 

The rest of the week was spent sewing my little friends, the Mice. A few families were born. Some of them will fly to Spain soon.

They keep asking me to write something about them, I think that will be my next post.

 Warmly, 

Yolanda.

The Little Match-Seller

"It was terribly cold. Snow was falling and soon it would be quite dark; for it was the last day in the year -New Year's Eve. Along the street, in that same cold and dark, went a poor little girl in bare feet..." 

by Hans Christian Andersen

Still sharing a little more about my last work.
 Beth asked me to made some puppets from the story of The Little Match-Seller. It's Lulah favorite story at the moment, she went to see it at the theater just before Christmas and the story has been told to her many times since.
I made the Little Match-Girl and the Grandmother. 

 

A Birthday Angel, a Mobile and a Box. A special Celebration

At the end of last year I was asked to make a Birthday Angel, a mobile and a box from where things could come out and it could be used for 'the birthday table'. These were for Lulah, a very special girl who was going to be seven at the end of January.

On New Year's eve, the first conversation between Beth, her mum, and I happened and our creative journey started. 

When I create I find it very important to communicate with my customers, I work closely with them. Everything I create is especially made for them.

These conversations inspire me. My hands and fingers, my needles and thread, my wool, silk, felt, everything comes together for the character to come up. It surprises and amazes me how it happens.

See the pictures

Birthday Angel

  Her hair is made of silk. 

She wears a Red ribbon as it's Lulah's colour.

 

 She has 40 pearls on her dress for Beth and a little bit of pink silk