Crafts

 Dot mandalas

Paper snowflakes

Quilling

New hobby: quilling. I took a class April 24, 2025.

Sashiko

 Sashiki - This was a preprinted design that I did in both variegated and plain blue.

This bag is a "rice bag". I did three small panels of Sashiko and decided to incorporate them into this bag. The "rice bag" is something originating in Japan that the people used to take offerings to their temples. The bags were made of scrapes of fabric. 

baskets

 Three new baskets finished in October - top one was made from a painted gourd that I bought, middle one has seeds implanted in a plastic/acrylic base, and bottom one was made with walnut shell slices.

 Picture taken from front window. This black bear was scared away with a whistle but another one appeared two days later and was also scared of the whistle. The next morning I found the bird feeder gone and the pole it was on bent at a 45 degree angle. Bear retaliation???

                                       Needle felted with class with Mattie and made into a carrier for my pad.

Table runner - sewn with the help of rulers and then colored with ink tense pencils textile medium to blend colors.

Tatted Christmas ornaments