if you are 100% wool...

BEWARE!!!!!!

I just might chop you up & make you a flower...

Ok, let's start @ the beginning...

This might be long...so you just might want to get some coffee...
I'm just saying...
LONG...

Last winter, I was teaching somewhere...
I forgot where...
hey...I'm old...
so, forgive me...

Anyway, a gal walked into my class with THE MOST AWESOME SWEATER ever...

Lucky for her I'm honest...
I really wanted to swipe it right off her back...

Lucky for her it was cold & I would have felt bad...
for all of about 10 seconds...

So...the class starts & she's still wearing that sweater...

I was getting sweaty...
Does she not realize we're using ink?

INK...that just might get on that sweater?

So, I nicely say to her...
"if you get ink on that sweater, I just might puke..."

She said... no big deal...
that's why I wore it...it's junk...
WHAT????

She proceeds to tell me that this sweater cost less than $10.00.

another...
WHAT?????????
I NEED to shop where she does...
and save Rick $$$...
yeah...right!

So I get more info...

Long story short...she found a damaged sweater @ Goodwill...and added the fabric patches to cover the holes...
they were...
100% wool...
thus the post title...

I've been dreaming of that sweater for a full year...

Then, last month I taught @ Prairie Art Stamps in Springfield, Illinois, where Terri introduced me to needle felting...
again...
100% wool...

Terri...I don't think Rick likes you anymore...
(I really SHOPPED)
but...
I sure DO!
Because...

I've been looking for something to entertain me on flights & during long ugly airport waits...

This stuff is lightweight and requires very little in the way of tools...
and...you can make...
FLOWERS!
I'll save that part of the story for another day...

Back to the sweater...

I was shopping @ JoAnn's a few weeks ago & saw some awesome...
100% wool material...
and it was brown...
and they had a grey too!
PERFECT!

I do NOT sew, except on paper...
but I remembered the info the sweater gal gave me last year...

Just wash & dry the wool & you can cut it, make patches & it does not frey...
no sewing needed...

Also, on that same trip I bought this 100% wool jacket...


which now looks like this...

I die cut some...

FLOWERS for the pockets!

and since the front looked better...
I thought I'd add one to the back, under the collar...
an idea I got from JJill...


So now I'm REALLY thinking...
what else can I do?

HEY...
some studio 490 stamps are just outlines...
see where I'm headed???????

rubber stamps are versatile...

I don't have a finished project yet...
but just you wait and see...

Whoever thought of Goodwill as an art supply store?
You can bet I'll be headed there soon...

Now about that late week giveaway...
NO...it's NOT the stamp & suitcase...
we had just enough for our cruisers...

Here's a little peek...



Don't forget...
GIVEAWAY...later this week!

While we were on the cruise, someone added LOTS to my to-do list...
starting with...
24 Ranger projects due by next Thursday...
I have 4 done...
only 20 to go...

YIKES!!!!!

so I NEED to get going and...

make art!
wendy