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.

Today I cut out my felt applique and got it ready to stitch and painted some acrylic felt.

 First, here are hubby’s slippers with their bottoms of spray-on Plasti Dip.

 This was much easier than trying to brush it on and the edges look professional. They are now water proof and I think will last much longer than without it. I highly recommend this product for slippers. No affiliation, I just like how it works.

 Here is the blue felt with fusible ironed to the back. I traced the pattern on to the fusible backing paper.

 You can see it a little better here. I cut it out carefully so I could use the positive and negative images.

 Here’s the negative image. I put it on a piece of orange prefelt to show you how it will look. Unfortunately, the prefelt isn’t big enough. I’ll have to make another piece of felt to go with this one.

 Here’s the one I’m going to stitch. It is fused down on to the red felt. After stitching it down, I will couch a cord around the applique. I have to find some and decide what color to use.

 Then I painted some acrylic felt with Dye-na-Flow paint.

 You have to get these really wet and use a lot of paint otherwise the paint just sits on top of the felt.