Plans Are Moving Ahead...

About two months ago I shared a post in which I talked about reworking a felted, stitched and beaded piece I had done years ago.  I keep looking at it, and I've finally come up with a plan...

I'm going to stitch it to a piece of charcoal coloured wool felt, add some hand dyed cheese cloth around it, and then do some hand stitch in the border area.

Right now the felt is cut into a large square, but I will likely trim it down to a rectangle.  The photo shows some of the cheesecloth I'm auditioning...I'll use my felting/embellishing machine, and probably use a combination of those pieces of cheesecloth in the border area.

Connected By A Thread

...or maybe that should read "hanging by a thread". LOL

Inspired by the 2012 ONN (Ontario Needleworker's Network) theme 'Connected', this evolved as a bit of a journal piece.  All of the felted squares are connected by a path of beads that seems to be wandering about without any real purpose or direction.  Some areas have been cut away to represent things that are falling apart and they are barely being held together by haphazard threads.  The buttons and safety pins are an attempt to further 'hold it all together'.