Hands up - who remembers "fuzzy felt"?

As you may be aware, today was a return visit to Bee Crafty and an all day workshop.  As you may recall this entails a 200 mile round trip so the workshop has to be worth it - boy was it!  The basic principle was to create a wonky house wall hanging - similar to this picture.  It entailed a morning of cutting out - by scissors - no measuring or right angles - these are wonky houses after all - and building our houses.  We had ironed bondaweb on first and peeled the backing off so it was glue on felt - which were then ironed down when we were happy with the picture.  As you can see from some of the photos below some people were inspired to create a different picture - some included pumpkins, churches and cats - anything went!

Very "Hatched and Patched " colours

Look at the embroidery detail on the tree

The church even had lead windows

In the afternoon we focussed on free machine embroidery to add details to our houses - before adding some hand embroidery.  Clearly this is a project which will take more time - the next step is to cut the blocks accurately and bind them together before attaching to the backing.  However ideas were flowing around the room and I can already see a winter scene - that's the problem with a long drive - your imagination goes into overdrive!



My efforts - so far!

Would I go again - absolutely - the hosts were very hospital - coffee and tea on tap with biscuits in the afternoon and the tutor was fantastic.  Sensibly I ought to wait until the spring - arriving back in the dark is not pleasant - but not bad enough to put me off if I really wanted to do a workshop!  So this evening I will peruse their offerings - don't be surprised if I have booked another one by tomorrow!

Of course there were also examples of work around the room to inspire you!

By the way - remember my frenetic activity yesterday - well this was the resulting step count - happy with that!