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.

I actually did some felt making today. It was just a couple of flat pieces of felt to make an applique but it was great to get my hands in the wool again. Then I worked on finishing up some projects and started on my beaded tassel.

 Here is one  of the piece’s of felt. I did quite a bit of dry rolling before I ever started to wet the felt down. It really speeded up the processs. Do you dry roll your felt?

This corner got cut a bit too close.

 Here’s the finished sample. This photo is closer to the true colors.

 Here’s a more straight on view. I used a dark brown thread for the edge so it wouldn’t show.

 The other project I worked on  was my husband’s slippers. I made them a long time ago but had promised to put plastic on the bottoms.

This is one of those days where I didn’t get much done. I was busy at work unpacking a big order of ceramics, tutoring someone on Quickbooks and then of course a few customers. So I started to work on a tassel for my bead book but I didn’t get very far. I made a twisted cord and wrapped the thread around the tassel template. That was it.

 The photo of the cord didn’t come out. Here is the tassel beginnings. Not too exciting, huh?

While I was unpacking the ceramics, I found these Styrofoam twisty bits in the peanuts. I’ve never seen these before. They were really cool looking. I’m not sure what you could do with them but at least they make a great design. So I got in 5 minutes of fiber. Tomorrow I’ll have the entire day so that will be more productive.