Snake scarf gets LOVE

snake scarf, originally uploaded by Marysusan.

So Craftmag saw my little snake scarf and decided to give it some love today in their blog. Yippee!

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2008/06/wetfelted_snake_scarf.html

If you were on Long Island, then you could see the real thing, as it in on display at my Library Exhibit.

I kind of love my little Rumpole the Reductive Rattler. He is wet felted, hand beaded and about 5 feet long. He works well as both a scarf and a belt. Totally fun.

Little Things....

After finishing my Blue Peony, I had enough felt left to make a smaller version. This one is only 2.5 inches across and might be considered the baby brother of the other peonies, or the stunted unfertilized runt. I'm not sure I love it, it lacks a little something in the oomph department. I also didn't double felt it after assembly, so it wouldn't loose even more size and that way it keeps the pinked edges. Who knows, the smaller size might make it more wearable.

Blue peonies...

Sometimes you just have to make something. That great piece of flat felt that I made during my playdate on Friday last just became a peony, a blue peony.

Now, I have never actually seen a blue peony in real life, they may very well exist in some mystical garden out there, but I have seen one on my great-grandmother's coverlet.

My great-grandmother's coverlet was sewn from the drapes that had hung in the dining room of my great-great-grandmother's house. These were staunch Appalachian women. Nothing went to waste. Now the coverlet is folded at end of the bed my grandmother gave my great-grandmother....which has pride of place in the front bedroom of my house.

Blue Peonies....may this one make some lucky woman feel as lovely as these women never knew they were.