Friendship Muse

A gift for a friend.

 Cute girl owl hat, a gift for daughter-in law.

 Machine and hand stitched denim softie, embroidery, cording, cloth pack, felt heart.

designed and made by Teresa Stieben ©

Gifted to our sweet grandson. I realized after that this reminds me of a storybook character from a book I used to read to my children when they were small, wish I could remember the title of the book.

Lap Quilts

 "A Warm Hug"

 "Butterfly Hug"

Crochet Hats

 Third hat crochet project. A sea urchin hat. Lots of mistakes on this one but I love it and wear it often.

First crochet project, learned by watching youtube videos. Not bad for a first try.
This hat now needs to be added on to as I mistakenly threw it in the wash and shrunk it. Its a soft enough wool that it stretches over my head still but now sits well above my ears. 

refurbished chair textile

 Before and after.

Star-thrower

Star-thrower

18x20 inches

Pigment printed image based on one of my paintings, varied fabrics, paint, beads and antique buttons.

No longer available, in a private collection.

Playing with fabric

I realized today these pieces were not posted on this blog.

 A Blue Owl pillow cover I made for my sweetie. Appliqué with retro fabrics.

 Grandchild's quilt.

Appliqué with new fabrics. I found the basic design on-line and altered it as I cannot fully use another's design. Being a artist who paints naturalistic I altered shapes to make more sense to me. To personalize the quilt I placed the family pug centre. I designed the pug from a photo of Fozzie who is actually a black pug but to fit the scheme I made him tan and put him in a camouflage coat to help him fit in with his wild neighbours.

After years of searching for the design I based my grandchild's quilt on I finally found it.
http://www.fatcatpatterns.com/storefront.html

As one can see I altered the design of the rabbit by uprighting the ears and adding a tail as where we live there are an abundance of city jackrabbits. The buffalo I redrew, tilting the horns forward. The bear was the only shape not altered. I do thank Sindy Rodenmayer for her original design that inspired me to create an beautiful baby quilt for a grandchild.

The bag that kept growing, it ended up much larger than I intended but hopefully its found a good use.
The goat is a pigment printed image from a painting. Given as a gift.