a life of felt

I’ve received another flag delivery and this time it’s pictoral. The lovely flag below came from Lynne another Yorkshire girl. I’ve been focussing on pattern and colour so was very pleasantly surprised to receive one with a picture on it. Thank you Lynne.

I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me before but yesterday I went through my statsh of felt to see if anything was suitable to use for the bunting. Luckily I found a few but there wasn’t any bling so I sat and sewed some sequins on.

I really like this last one and it pushes my bunting total to 34.

We’re at the half way stage, thirty flags! The excitement level raises each time the postman calls and today has been no exception. First up are the two flags from Heather in America. Heather has included angelina fibres in the purple one and glued crystals on the pink one for extra bling. As a mum of four girls Heather well remembers the 13th birthdays.

I was also delighted to receive the flag below from Els in the Netherlands. It’s beautiful colours and has loads of texture with the use of quite chunky pre-felts.

They’re fantastic – thank you both. It’s wonderful having different people involved in this project as each flag is so different. You’re all putting such effort in that I’m ashamed to say I was in donkey mode doing mine – head down, plodding away. But I feel rejuvenated and am definitely going to try harder to make mine more interesting.

It was so exciting to get the post and receive my first few frlags. The one below is from Trudis in Spain and has been stitched with a sparkly thread and outlined with yellow gold glass beads which really sing against the lovely orange flag. Not only that but Trudis has beaded both sides of the flag and included a little something extra which will stay a secret for now.

Next up are flags from Lucie. Not content with one Lucie from the Netherlands has made four! They’re a beautiful bright orange with wool pebbles, Arjen art yarn and firestar for sparkle. I’ve not come across firestar before but I’m glad I have now, it’s got loads of shine. I must remember that for future projects.

The flags are gorgeous, thank you both so much. My flag total now stands at 27

I promised to show you a picture of the bunting flag I was kniting and here it is.

I don’t know what was going on but I did undo it several times and yet this was still the best I could do. It’s lurex and it was awful stuff to work with. It slips around all over the place and somehow I didn’t notice dropping a stitch so I think I’ll not use it as is but will put it into a felt flag. It has all the appeal of a dishrag. I nearly gave up with knitting at this point but my next yarn was more successful.

Even though I thought crocheting might be easier I didn’t see how I could do it with this fancy yarn, you can’t see the stitches so I stuck with knitting. It’s worked out well, so well I made another one.

They might not look it in the photos but this fancy yarn is slightly sparkly and it feels lovely to stroke as well. That now brings my total of completed flags to twenty two. I’ll keep you updated as more come along.