More New Felt Brooches

Here are a few new felt brooches listed on my Featherstitch Fantail Blog. I've also listed a number on my etsy shop.

Felt Birds on Etsy and Great Sushi

I thought I'd give my felt bird brooches a go on etsy. I was holding back until now because I needed them for market, but I've been so busy making them that I've got a few to spare for my etsy shop.
Also I'm trying to get to my 100 sales goal, when I reach it Jeremy is going to take me out for dinner. Hooray! I've decided I want to go to Wabi Sabi, a great little Japanese restaurant on Smith Street. I go there for sushi takeaway every time I'm at the Print Workshop. They seriously do the BEST sushi in the city, so good infact that I can no longer eat sushi anywhere else. So I'm going to give a free gift to the buyer of sale no. 100 in the form of one of these little felt bird brooches to say thankyou for helping me get to my favourite restaurant!

Gum Tree Blossom

I was at the Abbotsford Convent Maker's Market today, slightly hungover without deserving to be, when I looked down and found this pretty little gum tree blossom. I thought it so pretty that I wanted to recreate it with my felt and thread and make it into a brooch, and so I did.


I love the exotic looking plants and flowers and blossoms here in Australia, some are quite extraordinary looking.


Now I'm going to see Mama Mia with Christina so I'd better get on my bike and dash.

I'm a little husky!

No, not the dog. My voice. It's on its way out. Well, I don't need it for on here so I'm alright!

I've been busy sewing at Thread Den making new brooches. (I don't have a sewing machine at home yet.) Here are a few, I've listed this lot on Dawanda.




I've also had some of my screen printed birds made into button brooches, I'm pleased with the result. As soon as my new gocco supplies arrive I will make more in other colours.



I'm also very very happy to say that the Australian Print Workshop, where I do all my etching, has given me a scholarship for this year! This means I am free to use the facilities and I will have an exhibition at the end of the year along with the other two scholarship printmakers. I'm very excited and I have new ideas running through my head for new projects and things to try. Keep watching!

Have a Gander at These!

I've started (yet another) new design of brooch. These are gocco screenprinted onto calico then sewn onto layers of felt with a sewing machine. At the moment I have only printed white on white, I liked the subtlety of this, but I'm thinking they don't stand out very well so I am experimenting with printing coloured birds too.


I've also been stitching in my spare time and made another hand stitched brooch. Now I'm going for a half price dinner at The Builder's Arms (monday night only!) and to the cinema with my friend Hayley.

After the Calm of Easter

I came back from Jeremy's parents' house yesterday and got stuck into making making making. I felt a bit starved of it over the holiday weekend. I'm not very good at just relaxing. I had been all prepared and brought a bag of felt to make brooches, but managed to leave it at someones house on our way to Geelong. (rather typical of me)

So, I got back into the swing of things yesterday afternoon and tried screen printing onto some bags I had bought ages ago. I remembered how at art college we had just used newsprint paper to make the stencils, so I tried that and it seemed to work quite well.


I also finished off my owl brooch that I had started while at Rose Street Artist's Market.


Now I really have to make more gocco prints for my mum's cookbook. Maybe if I say I will show at least two in my next post that will give me a shove!