Frosty Lavendar & Winter Punching

It has been a very cold start to Winter here.  It sounds like just about everyone in the upper US has been freezing for a few months now.  We have been very cold -- single digits to the low teens every night -- without much snow.  There is only about 2 inches of the white stuff on the ground now when there should be 2 feet.  It is still beautiful in different ways.

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One of my dear sisters let me know that I have been neglecting this blog.  She doesn't live near, so she checks here to see what I have been up to.  To look at my blog, you would think that I haven't been doing much of anything... but that would not be true.

I am deep into dreaming up and creating punchneedle pieces.  As I have mentioned before, I truly adore tiny, tiny things.  All these little thread punches -- thousands of them -- just make me happy.  I made an assortment of pieces for the Holiday season and I thought I would share some of them with you -- and with my sister, of course.   

Partridge in a Plaid Coat

Sleigh Ride

Skating Snowman -- Wheee....

A little Snow Family

Hope your Winter is Wonderful.

Thanks for visiting!

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Smitten

Happy Valentine's Day!

This is a punch needle work of a couple of lovebirds.

 

Hope you have a lovely day with lots hugs & kisses. 

Karen

Teeny, tiny snowshoes

Tiny, Tiny Snowshoes

 Just another punchneedle work, complete with miniature footwear.

This time we have a snowshoe hare wearing snowshoes and a wee pair of handmade snowshoes.

It is still very much Winter here.  The temperatures have been in the low single digits in the morning and staying below 20 during the day.  

Brrr....

Karen 

Here Comes Halloween!

I am so happy to be working on Halloween art!  Halloween is by far my favorite.

This is my first piece for 2012.

All completely handmade by me and my boneylittlefingers (my eBay seller id), Mr Crow is standing on a needle punched tombstone and holding a tiny JOL treat bucket.

I will be listing him on eBay soon... if I can bear to part with him!

Happy Halloween, so far!

Red, White, & Bluebird House

Happy Fourth of July!

Just popping by to wish you a great 4th with lots of family, friends, and fun.

Little Red Barn & Farm

My latest project... A teeny tiny Barn & Farm.  

Some of you are aware that I adore working with wool.  I really love it.  And, I seem to be enchanted by smallness.  The scale of my art is almost always tiny, anything over 8 inches is very rare.   

Lately, I have been itching to get back into needle punch.  All those thousands of teeny tiny loops are sooo me!  I have also been hand dyeing wool without any special projects in mind because I enjoy the process.

Well, my stash was over-flowing with so many wonderful supplies that I finally got back into using them instead of just admiring them.  (some you will know what I mean about that!)

 

I got busy needle punching, embroidering, stitching and engineering it all into this teeny tiny barn & farm.  There are sheep grazing, chickens scratching, crops growing in rows, a flag on the back of the barn, a picket fence -- so many details.  It was a lot of creative fun.

I'm already planning the next wool and needle punch project.

Thanks for visiting!