Fabric Charms again

The photo I posted of my fabric charms/inchies wasn't very clear because of the flash. Diane suggested that I scan them instead and that worked out much better. I didn't make all of them but the ones with purple on the outside are the ones I made. The rest were trade with the other women at the Fiber Art Bee.

We meet each month and have been playing with lots of fun things. As I said in the previous post, they are one inch square. You can see the eyelet in most of them. Still undecided on what to do with them.

Fabric Charms

Today my FiberArt Bee met and we made fabric charms. They are each only 1 inch square and have an eyelet so that they can be attached to a bracelet or something else with a jump ring.

We each made 10-16 of them and then traded 2 of ours with each of the others. I made 16 and the picture has mine and the traded ones. We had fun - it is different working so small.

Not sure what we are going to do next month but I am sure it will be fun.

Scarf from Yarn and Ribbon

At our last FiberArtBee meeting Sharon led us in making scarfs from yarn and ribbon. I finally finished mine a couple of days ago and actually wore it to work at the quilt shop today.

These were easy to make a a lot of fun. We used Ultra Solvy, put it on a table and sprayed it with basting spray. Then we just started putting yarns and ribbons out. I used lots of blues, purples and a few of my favorite lime green. I was able to use some of the fiber packages that Linda and I got in Paducah. I love to buy them and love to look at them, but rarely get around to actually making something from them.

Anyway, after laying out all the yarn, we sprayed the whole thing with the basting spray again and put a second piece of Solvy on top. At that point, we stitched across all the fibers about 1 inch apart and when finished with that, did the length about the same distance apart, making a thread mesh on top of the yarns.

Then the really hard part - washing out the Solvy. That stuff is really sticky. I rinsed and rinsed but it is still a little stickly. Back into the sink tomorrow to do it again and maybe again. I am sure eventually it will rinse completely out.

I love our little Bee - we have so much fun trying things out that we would probably never do by ourselves.