I decided a little while ago that I wanted more of my own work on my walls. I have some paintings I’ve done on the walls but wanted to do more embroidery and textile things for display. I have several projects in process at the moment, several felt “banners” for my kitchen area altar are included. Halloween, Autumn, Spring/Summer, and Yule. They will be reversible and when I get some good pictures I will post them.
The other project is a huge Wheel of the Year in wool felt that is about 40″ in diameter. The ivory felt wheel pieces (pie shaped pieces)will be appliqued onto a black felt background in such a way that the black makes spokes and a rim. The hub is going to be a sun/moon. The black will be embroidered with vines and leaves. It is an ambitious project and who knows how long it will take me to do. But I love it well and it’s a lot of fun. I haven’t decided yet if I want it to be simple or very embellished so I’m getting the pie pieces done to a certain point and moving on to the next. If I grow tired and just want to hang it already at least it will be simply done.
I only have 4 sabbats in the stitching stage, Ostara, Litha, Mabon, and Samhain. I’ve got Lammas and Beltaine designed but not cut out yet. Imbolc is next with wooly lambs, I’m a bit stumped by Yule because of the orientation of the piece. Yule has a cardinal and pine and holly but how to place the cardinal still escapes me as it is a a long tall piece, not wide. The symbols are very traditional, nothing obscure, each piece having an animal and a plant.
The designs are completely mine and drawn freehand by me. I’m feeling kind of proud of the drawing, if I do say so. Quite pleased with myself.
The four pieces together.
Samhain: snake coiled in a full harvest moon with deadly nightshade. I have a snake phobia and had to give him kindly eyes so it wouldn’t freak me out. All the other eyes made him look ready to strike and I couldn’t touch it. *shiver*
Ostara (duh): hare and lilies.
Mabon: pumpkin and mouse. He still needs his face and body details embroidered
Stitch Witch Cottage 
This is truly wonderful. I wish I had room to display it; I would really love to have this in my house. (Well, assuming I could coax you to make another one and to sell it to me.) 🙂
Wow. So wow. I love the bunny face. The vines, the details on the flowers. And oh, that snake! This is just divine. You must be so happy with it!
*smile* I’m in love with the bunny, I want to date him.
How do you know it’s a he? 🙂
HAR!
I don’t know. I wondered if someone might ask. If it were a she I’d probably still want to date her. 😉
But when I look at the bunny it’s a he, the snake is a he, the frog (Beltaine) is a she and so are the bees. Who knew?
It’s a good exercise to examine our assumptions. I remember when I was first in a training coven, and learning the elemental animals, our high priestess asked us how we envision the various animals. Most of us had preconceived notions they were all male, so we did meditations to strengthen images of two of them as female. It didn’t take long for me to picture the “red lion of the noon heat” without a mane!
I had that exercise myself but with the correspondences of plants, stones, and colors.
And it IS good to examine. And I did find myself asking just that, why do I think the bunny is a he. If go futher it could be because my partner and I recently had a past life thing done and in one of the many lives we shared we were bunnies, really big primal bunnies. And since he’s a male in this lifetime and that bunny is winking at me, I’m sure of it, well, I think that might be why I went there. *wink*
WOW
That is going to be so cool!! I love it. You are so amazingly creative and talented, I am often blown away by your talent. :):):)
I love that you are in my life.
hugs!
I found you via pimp_my_altar and was wondering if I could add you as a friend to my journal? 🙂
Absolutely! *smile*
Awwwwww. *sniff*
Hugs to you as well my fae friend