The magic hat, my first fiber book

Earlier in my creative life I painted and illustrated flat images on paper.It was too flat. I didn't know yet, I was very young, how to create textures. Later I experimented sculpturing with paper mache, an area that I still feel I haven't explored thoroughly and will certainly go back to.
Then I discovered textile and fibers and a new world opened to me.
To combining making pictures with textile fibers I came via my son. I read for him every evening before he goes to sleep a book. I still love children's book illustrations and besides the story the pictures have a great factor for me when approving a book in our little home library. But we don't have many books and we both get bored reading the same books over and over and over again.
I thought - why shouldn't I make for us some books?!
Why not?
I am busy now with the picutres of my first fiber book. I didn't write the story. The story is written years ago by one of my favorite poet and writer, Lea Goldberg.

The magic hat

My inner animal

So today Pokey Bolton , Editor-in-Chief of Quilting Arts Magazine posted in her blog the list of Quilting Arts Inner Animal Challenge Finalists and my name is not in... it was lots of fun doing a piece for a challenge and I will certainly do that again.. who knows, maybe one day my name will be on such a list?

I can't wait to see the finalist's pieces but I don't have to wait to show mine.



My piece name : The lioness.

And my motivations was:

My name is Ayala, it is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is a gazelle, a female deer.
On the outside my name suits me, but my inner animal is actually the opposite of the petite and shy looking deer. In the inside I am a Lioness, Feminine and sensual, the core of my family, queen of the pride, a total mother.
I never run away but always move forward!

Creating while expecting

Expecting a child is a very special period in my life. I feel super feminine and glamorous even when my sweater hardly covers my growing belly and I am only just beginning the 4th month..
Luckily I wear my coat most of the day

Everything I feel has of course influence on my work. With the CD of birth confirmation playing on the background I create with sensual colors and dreamy materials as wool and silk, feathers and sparkle and the sweet nostalgia of vintage.




And how could I forget the roses!



And then came Quilting Arts with the challenge "The inner animal" right on time.
I can't tell yet which animal I am inside but it is something wild
I am looking forward to the following 6 months!

1+ 50%

1+ 50%

Making room in my etsy shop
for the new exciting collection

EVERYTHING MUST GO - NO ITEM WOULD BE RENEWED!!

Buy ANY item from my etsy shop and get refunded for 50% of the price off of every additional item!!

for example:
If you buy two pencil cases for $18 each you'll be refunded for $9!!
If you a knitting shoulder bag for $85 and a quilted pink clutch for $50 you'll be refunded for $25!!

What's coming next?
In my new collections more fiber arts and not only bags!!
More romance, familiar techniques with new motiven, new designs, new materials!

M for martine

A day before new years eve was my son's last day in the kindergarden we had a little farewell party. I made a cake for the children and we gave his teachers thank you gifts that I made and my son was so proud to tell everyone that his mama made the cake and the presents

His teachers names are Martine and Debby and I made for each a little jeans purse with her own first letter

M for Martine

D for Debby

I used purse frame with sewing holes and instead of attaching them with glue I stitched them with sead bead.

Happy new year!

Beter later than never
I began the new year with some exciting events...
Best 2010 to everyone!!

Xpressing myself

The top of the music quilt is ready and now I am waiting for the fabric I ordered for the back and binding. They are already shipped and I hope they will arrive very soon because the dead-line is closing in....

In the meanwhile I celebrated my son's 4th birthday. I promised him weeks before a pingu cake.
Sculpturing with sugarpaste was harder than I thought. luckily he has a birthday only once a year


While waiting for the fabrics to arrive I prepared my sewing table for quilting of a large quilt. and then when the table was clean and empty I took Janome Xpression out the corner, wool, scraps and embroidery tread... I would have to clean my table again before the fabrics arrive..

Have I mensioned it before how I like sheep?

A green landscape with sheep is a typical dutch view. but these sheep are french(knot)

I had a idea to write a children book and to felt, embroidery and sew the illustrations. Is that something?