It’s been a month since I started the Daily Dose of Fiber challenge and besides the cut finger, it went very well. I’ve managed to post every day and get at least 5 minutes of something creative every day. I’m going to continue but I don’t think I’m going to keep track of the days for the full three months. Today, I finished the felt applique couching. I really like the result. I am sure that there will be more of these especially for decorating the inside of the yurt.

 Here’s the finished applique with the green yarn couched all the way around.

 And a closer photo.

 Then I did a little research on art in the late Bronze age. I am not very inspired by this era.

 Here’s a little more work in my sketchbook about the different symbols in the Kyrgyz rugs. These would all work for other felt applique pieces.

 Here’s more about the Bronze age. We have our local meeting next week so I needed to do my “art history” homework.

 Over at the Felting and Fiber studio, I wrote a post several weeks ago about drawing. I decided to try a little of the goofy animal drawing on to a previously painted piece of paper. You are supposed to find the shapes from the paint and then draw into them to make an animal. So here is my little snail Stanley.

He was fun to draw and just took a few minutes.

I stopped this morning before work and bought some crochet yarn to couch around my felt applique. The only color that would work was dark green. Gold would have been nice but the store didn’t have any.

 I couched the yarn down with matching embroidery floss, using one strand.

I am almost 3/4 done. I think it would look really nice if I couched a thin gold cord next to the green but I’m not sure I’ll do that. It might be finished with just the green.

I finished stitching my applique piece except for the cording I will couch around the applique. I don’t have any cording yet. I also finished beading my tassel for my bead book.

 Here’s the applique all stitched down. What color cording do you think I should use? Usually another color is used in the traditional Kyrzyg appliques. I was thinking maybe green?

Here’s the beaded tassel. The photo didn’t turn out too clearly. But you get the idea. I used a tubular brick stitch around the neck and then a horizontal netting below that followed by a standard fringe. Then I randomly stitched a few beads on the head of the tassel. This was very fiddly, took me 3 hours to finish and it’s only 4 inches long. If you don’t have much patience, I wouldn’t recommend making beaded tassels.

I managed to get some stitching done despite my injury. It is actually easier to stitch than it is to type.

 I almost got it all stitched.

 You can see the stitching if you click on the photo.

I just have this motif left and I’m more than half way around.

This is one of those days when life gets in the way. I cut myself while slicing veggies. Now I have 6 stitches.

So I guess my fiber dosage today is to read FELT magazine that Karen sent me. I’ve been ordered to take it easy the rest of the day.