Textile Art for craft fair

I have created some unframed textile art and felt art for selling at the craft fair I am doing this weekend.

The felt art is similar to work I have done in the past.  I first created a felt base using my embellisher and then added hand stitches in toning colours.   Buttons were added to finish.

        

         

I also tried out some new ideas for the textile art, with a mixture of patchwork, mixed media and fabric collage, all finished with hand stitching and some with buttons.

 

 

 

Both the felt art and the textile art are stitched to cream board and are sized to fit an 8" x 10" frame.  If any remain unsold after the craft fair, I will be putting them in my Folksy shop.

What am I up to at the moment?

I've been busy recently creating lovely little things to sell at a craft fair I have booked in August.  Sadly that hasn't left me much time for creating my textile art.

However, I am very pleased with the things I have made which include several items using cover buttons using vintage and vintage-style fabrics.   There are buttons, hair clips and bookmarks.

 



There are also some brooches, some made from felt - both needle made and wet made - and some from fabric.

I've also made some heart hangings which incorporate a lightly stuffed heart mounted on a decopatch covered board and include a 'heart' saying such as "Home is where the heart is" and  "A heart that loves is always young".

I also have some textile art that I have previously made so I will also be including them.

 

 

Many of these items can be found on my Folksy shop, Created  by Lynn.   I also have a page on Facebook under the same name.

More postcards

I've been having a clean out and found some half made fabric postcards so I finished them and will probably put them on my Folksy store. I've neglected it recently and feel the need to go back and try again.

They were made with some scraps of blue batik fabric that I had left over from a quilt I made last year.

More for Folksy

I've just added these two creations to my Folksy shop.

They are both needlefelted - the left hand one is made using wool and silk fibres and the right hand one is recylced sari silk. Both have hand stitching and buttons to finish and are mounted on painted canvases.

Where does the time go?

Yet again it's several weeks since my last blog - too many weekends getting away from it all at the seaside!

I have been busy making a few more things for my Folksy shop so must get them finished and post some photos on here as well as getting them in the shop. Got lots more ideas that I will have to make the time to get going on them.

I'm also very excited as my friend Jo and I are planning an exhibition. I've suggested it to her in the past but we've both been a bit nervous about the prospect of exhibiting our own work but now seems the right time and we're both very excited about it. We're still in the very early stages of just planning the date and venue and thrashing out some initial ideas but hopefully we'll get going on the actual work soon. We've been meeting regularly and have planned a day out together in August to get some inspiration so keep reading and I will post more details soon.

Folksy shop is open!

Taken a big step and have opened a 'shop' on Folksy. I've started by listing some postcards and cards that I had in my stock and will see how things go. Stop by and have a look - www.folksy.com/shops/CreatedbyLynn. There are some fantastic things for sell on the website as well as a variety of materials with which to create so it's well worth a look around the whole site.