This year it has a red roof, yummy spices inside with honey.

Got an upgrade with candy window glass and a high tech LED candle flickering through the glass.

Time for a quick hand made needle felted poppy purse for a Christmas present.
I chose wool roving in red, brown, black, yellow, hand felted over a ready made felt bag using the Clover tools. The embellisher machine would not work as it was too thick. Yup, broke two needles.
Hope this will be put to good use

Passion fruit ice-cream encases passion fruit gelee, a whiskey caramel and chocolate ganache inserts.

Soursop ice-cream on the bottom over a coconut dacquoise.

Use wool roving to “paint” over it. 

Use the needle felting (from Clover) tools or the embellisher machine (Husqvarna) to push the wool fibers through the fabric and cover the stain up.

Now it is no longer a stained tshirt.

It was so gung up that the handwheel did not even move the arm up and down.

It only needed to be cleaned and oiled, it was not dirty inside, i think it was just the old oil that got her stuck, I degreased and re-oiled it and it works like a charm! Very weird the way it threads itself to the side, all metal inside, no plastic anywhere! And the bobbin case and thread adjusters work fine too! It even adjusts the pressure of the foot on the fabric. Looks like it has been serviced in 2002. 

Used Lycra for the lining and a fold over stretch tulle fabric filled with sparkley small pom poms. The lining was gathered and sewn under a sequin elastic wide band. The folder over raw edges od the tulle were stitched on the side, then the waistline gathered and stitched with a zig zag over the front of the elastic band.

Some I will use for trimming a jacket, soft and pliable, others for belts and accessories and just to have on hand.

I stitched through tissue paper on the regular machine and putting the pieces together was ok. Topstitching around the edges, a two hour nightmare. Hand stitching did not work either, sonI just gave up topstitching and left it bare, after cutting all the mistakes out. The initial plan was to have a much wider belt, where the fronts overlapped, but I now have to loose weight for that to happend.

The tassels were easy to make, but take a rectangle and cut slices, by leaving the edge intact, then roll and glue.

The rest of the pieces were glued, stitched or tacked in place.

With the hand felting needle tool from Clover over a brush, I added the wool rocing over the fabric, with some wool yarn and arranged it into the irises bouquet. On the wrong side I layed the yarn down in concentric circles and added pink in the center and around it. I mixed in some lightweight tulle net.

Using the Huskwarna felting machine I “stitched” it all down from both sides.

This machine is just like my daughter’s Sewcool.

It does the same thing, mashes fibers together.

So, here it is, no more holes in the blanket.