Goddess on the mountain top

Goddess on the mountain top
Burning like a silver flame
The summit of beauty and love
And Venus was her name

My dear friend, the dream designer, used to sculp ancient goddesses of clay. I loved them. I also treasure my goddess necklace forever and actually feel the energy when holding it and wearing it.
My dear friend, Inbal, celebrated her birthday last week and I have made her a quilted ancient goddess because of who and what she is.
Inspired by herself and The Venus of Willendorf (22,000 B.C. and 21,000 B.C) I needle felted my own version of venus and she stands proud in the center of a mixed media mini-quilt (8.5 X 11 inches).

Look at the richness of texture that the lace gives! I couldn't have embroidered it richer myself.


I love mixing techniques and materials.
In this piece I used:

• coffee and rust dying (inner background, various scraps in the corners and the lace)
• beading
• needle felting (venus)
• found objects (tree branch I found in the forest near the camping)
  

Silence

"Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way,
he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton. "

Lillian Gish , The First Lady of the Silent Screen

In the center a printed on fabric Portrait.
And arround with the needle felting machine I punched wool, silk, lace, satin and other yarns and embellished with satin ribbon roses.

It turned out to be a little (4X8 inches) nostalgic romantic wall hanging.

Forgot how much I liked

Making Etsy treasuries
This week I curated enjoyably 2

Drama
(hurry up klicking on the link above because it is about to expire in less than 10 hours!)


Sweet

Reading
I think I am done with birthing books. After "childbirth without fear", "Hypnobirthing" and "Unassisted childbirth" I am ready and eager to give birth but still have 11-13 weeks to kill.
I turned back to leisure books.
The last one I have read was "The eye of the leopard" by Henning Mankell. I recommend.
It has been a while since I just could put a book down.
Now I read a dutch book "Duet" by Céline Linssen. It is a roman about the last 3 months of Mata Hari life in prison.



There are lots of photo's on the web if you search Mata Hari. I would like to make a quilt of her.
But I have so many things to do before. The birthdays and visits just keep on coming and I am busy with presents and must-does-before I couldn't reach the sewing machine over my belly anymore. This baby seems to be not so fond of the nooisy needle felting machine.

Two pages

The cover and 2 text pages of my project fiber book "The magic hat" are ready.
I have printed the text on a thick paper and then sewn the paper on the fabric covering it with transparent vinyl. It is faster and easier than printing on fabric. I will come to that later, someday.