Rusty Wall Hanging.

I've finished my experimental rusted fabric wall hanging and here are the results. If you haven't seen my original post on actually rusting the fabric, you can see it HERE

This is the heart I created on one of the pieces of fabric with rusting powder and some lace at the edges:

Here is a piece which I decorated with hand embroidery, ribbon, machine embroidery, stamped hearts and wire spirals: 

This is the key image which I printed onto fabric then sewed on:

And here is the whole thing:

This is just a starting point. I'm hoping to do more experiments with rusting fabric and to develop them even further to create pieces that are more beautiful. As always, when they come into being, you'll see them here.

Happy Easter.

Happy Easter!  

I hope you're having a lovely weekend and enjoying some chocolate. 

These are two Easter bunnies which I knitted to celebrate this weekend. 

They're in white and yellow to symbolise Spring and the bright colours of the season and the new growth. 

Here they are with some bluebells:

Here they are with some primroses :

And here they are with forget-me-nots:

Ok, I think that's enough bunnies for now. ;)

I've also finished my work in progress :

It's some bunting in fresh Spring blue like the bright sky patterned with flowers. 

Here are a couple of close ups:

Happy Easter and may the sun shine. :)

Some fun fungi and flowers.

A short post this week, not about textiles but I had to show you some fungi I found. It looks quite pretty.

I saw it growing on a branch on the ground and had to take a photo. I've done some research and found that it's called "Many-zoned Polypore" or "Coriolus versicolor" (which I assume is the Latin 😉 )

It's an extremely common bracket fungus (and there I was hoping I'd found something unusual 😊 ) It grows on the dead tree stumps or fallen branches of deciduous trees and forms semi-circular shapes in tiers. The upper surface is patterned with concentric rings of different colours.

I also found this, which I thought was something different:

But then I went back a while later and it had developed the concentric rings too, so it must be white and soft when it first begins to grow then turns brown and develops the rings.

The garden is doing well now that spring has arrived and all my flowers are budding. This primrose has already flowered with its cute little petals.

As you may know by now, I like using nature in my work so maybe I'll have an inspiration about how to use the colours and patterns of the fungus.

Have a lovely weekend!