Just love your mushroom Annie and so lovely to have your company while getting my dictionary of stitches ready for putting together as a little upcoming holiday project. Might have to take some mushroom making supplies too now! 🤩 cheers and I see you and Sue are kickstarting a magic mushroom revolution 💜💚💛💙 cheers, Christine
Thanks Christine - hehe up the fungi revolution! I'm so looking forward to getting stuck into my dictionary of stitches too, I think that's going to be a favourite project for this year :)
You keep on knocking but you can't come in! Oh that's so funny Annie, I made a mouse last week and wanted to sew a mushroom umbrella. I prefer the way you have done it, gonna make another one. That looks so nice, thank you for the inspiration.
hehe I could happily have knocked them around the head with that blinkin hammer by the end of the day Johnny!! Seems to be all quiet now though, hopefully it was just a weekend job. Ah I want to see your mouse, I love your creatures - did you do a video? Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it and very happy if it inspired you :)
Lovely!! I think she's sold out now, so we were lucky to get some of her first batch of dyed velvet - I'd love to see the mushrooms you create with it and I'm sure Sue would too, please do share some pics in the Discord community or FB group :)
Wow super colourful fabric from Sue more is more, love the magical mushroom you’ve made Annie. Looks like you had fun, I’m sure there will be a whole cluster soon. Loved the video just makes you feel happy watching it.🍄 x 💐
Thank you so much Jen, I'm really happy you enjoyed it - my head is bursting with ideas for more mushrooms, baskets to put them in, woodland scenes with felted and stitched forest floor, strange caterpillars with hookah pipes .... this could go on and on .... isn't it wonderful how one beautiful piece of fabric and a vague idea can just take wings and fly, another example of how we all inspire each other in this creative community of ours :) xo
Thank you so much Chantelle, I really enjoyed this one, so many more ideas to try with different shapes of mushrooms and different ways of constructing them :)
Thanks so much Jenny😊I love the projects you share on Instagram too, though I'm not really active on IG these days, so I'm very happy to see you now have a UA-cam channel and of course I've subscribed :)
Yes!! Sue should sell kits, definitely! Embrace the wonk, yes, I love how organic your shroom looks. The way you modified the shape of the stem looked really interesting and fun to do. It came out absolutely magical!
Thanks Carrie - I think each shroom will insist on doing its own thing, but I have already dug out my fungi book to find more inspiration for shapes and textures. Though if you came across one like this in the woods I think you'd do a double-take! Sue has now made up kits, I've added a link to the description - I think they're going fast :)
Great 'shroom' making and I love how you've used the purple for the gills. The velvet is absolutely gorgeous and so I've picked up one of Suzie's kits :). Before I go I have to ask, what brand of scissors are those on your desk? I always notice scissors - lol!
Thanks Susan, and I will very much look forward to seeing what fabulous fungi you create with you kit from Suzie. My large dressmakking scissors are Korbond, they're really good actually and they've been given a really good testing over the last two or three years since I retired :)
Thanks so much Maggie😊I have some different construction ideas to try out, but this was pretty straightforward and effective I think - struck lucky for my first go! I thnk I may end up with a whole basket of mushrooms - now that's got me thinking :)
Love the mushrooms, thanks for showing us how to make them Annie. Suzie fabric is just fantastic. Might have to try and make one this coming winter 😊 Mw. NZ
Thank you Margaret! Funny to think of you guys approaching winter now as we have spring in the air, but yes, a perfect autumn/winter project, especially as autumn is the best time to find mushrooms growing in the wild! Please do share some pics if you make one :)
I made a mushroom out of 2 yoyos and put some stuffing between them and sewed it up and made my stock a little smaller and not quite as fat as yours and wrapped lace around the stalk I put some fancy bead work on top of the mushroom that came from a sari...I used like satin fabric on both the top and bottom...the gills...I took a little distressing ink and used it on the stalk....probably will make another one a little smaller than this one and put them in a cloche with some moss around the bottom of them....
Oh Linda that sounds beautiful and a genius idea to make the mushroom from two suffolk puffs, I'll definitely try that. Please do share some photos of your mushrooms in the FB group or Discord community, I would love to see them :)
How much fun was THAT??!? I absolutely adore it, Annie! (Clever Boots!) That gorgeous velvet from Sue with such delicious colours just cried out to be made into this wonderful creation. A wee forest/grouping of these would be fabulous, wouldn't it? Fun! I do envy your talent with a needle and I thoroughly enjoyed watching this come together. Thank you so much for sharing. Much love and bless, dear friend xoxo
Thank you so much Lindsey! hehe Clever Boots, wonder if I can make that stick?! :) oh yes a little cluster with some moss, stones, leaves, which I could part-felt, part-stitch, that would look lovely, also fancy weaving a basket and filling it with an assortment of fabulous fungi. Hope you're doing ok and recovering well Lindsey xo
@@artyfartyannie Hallo, Dearest! Yes, feeling loads better. Thank you so much. I've a new job that's taking much of my time at the mo. Long hours for now but will settle down in a wee bit. I'm truly hoping I can be there for your livestream this weekend. Fingers crossed! Sending huge love & hugs, dear friend! Xoxo
Lovely mushroom. Aww the velvet fabric is fabulous. Himm soon to be sold fabric packs eekk um yes please. Gosh those sequins are beautiful catching the light. Had a Quick Look Suzie is making kits sending to England and America I’ve asked if she will send to NZ. Yes these mushrooms could be addictive I’m thinking would be great on the windowsill in my artroom, yep lovely bright happy mushrooms to look at as the weather turns to awful. Saturday night we had thunderstorms ⛈️ boy were they strong flashes in the sky every half second constant rumble with bangs and crashes last half an hour I fear autumn is on its way. Still had a lovely summer, way to hot and got to play on our beaches (tides here very strong so dangerous water but it was so calm loads of people swum and bonus no one drowned this year well here on the WC of the SI) which was rather fabulous. Must get on Monday today and sigh it’s clean oven day ah the fun never ends, maybe I could have a look see and find some fabric I could play with this afternoon. Aww I got a kit! Yep will know wait on the postie here. Our postal service has well gone to the cats (would say dog but well let’s be truthful dogs would deliver quicker than NZ post lol) I’m getting post once a week. People are getting things supper late so I expect in two months I will receive my mushroom kit just right to play with on a cold winters day. I can wait.
Thanks Paula and ooh yes a little cluster on your window sill would be so cute. I'm thinking I'lll end up making a basket and then filling it with mushrooms, I have dig out my fungi book for inspiration, I do find fungi fascinating! :) Your postal service is pretty dismal isn't it? Is it any better if it's delivered from Amazon or other couriers rather than postal service or is it just as bad? I'm glad you had a lovely summer - time to get ready for some cosy autumn/winter crafting now :)
@@artyfartyannie yes other courier company’s are better, in fact our post courier is fine it’s just anything for normal post so a postal worker biking to deliver. In our area three posties have retired and no one employed to replace them so two people biking around Greymouth to deliver is well quite frankly appalling ergo once a week for normal mail. Like a said it’s a mess. Feel sorry for our postie, he’s doing us, Blake town, Cobden and bodytown quite a bit for one postie.
Blimey poor postie - he'll be worn out as well soon won't he? Maybe they need to pay the posties better or something. I feel very lucky to have our postal service :)
I can't remember which I was using on this Rhonda, but I usually prefer Chenille needles, because they're small and sharp but have large eyes, and they come in lots of different sizes, I find them really nice to use for slow-stitching projects, so it was probably one of those :)
Thanks so much Liz! 😊I think I got lucky for my first try, can't wait to try out some more ideas now, with different shapes of mushrooms and ways of constructing them - endless possibilities I think :)
Wonderful! I hope you will share some pics when you do, I would love to see how yours turn out - I think everyone's will be so different, my plan is to make a basket full of them - eventually! :)
Love that colourful velvet, and your finished mushroom is beautiful.
Thank you very much Linda :)
Beautiful 🍄 mushroom Annie look forward to some more of your mushrooms x
Thank you Gillian - this has definitely caught my imagination, my mind is full of mushrooms at the moment :)
This is so fun🎉
Thank you Judy :)
Just love your mushroom Annie and so lovely to have your company while getting my dictionary of stitches ready for putting together as a little upcoming holiday project. Might have to take some mushroom making supplies too now! 🤩 cheers and I see you and Sue are kickstarting a magic mushroom revolution 💜💚💛💙 cheers, Christine
Thanks Christine - hehe up the fungi revolution! I'm so looking forward to getting stuck into my dictionary of stitches too, I think that's going to be a favourite project for this year :)
Brilliant design! Lovely result! Thanks for sharing. ❤👍from Somerset
Thank you so much Liz, I had so much fun with this, I feel a new obsession coming on ... :)
So beautiful!
Thank you! 😊
You keep on knocking but you can't come in! Oh that's so funny Annie, I made a mouse last week and wanted to sew a mushroom umbrella. I prefer the way you have done it, gonna make another one. That looks so nice, thank you for the inspiration.
hehe I could happily have knocked them around the head with that blinkin hammer by the end of the day Johnny!! Seems to be all quiet now though, hopefully it was just a weekend job. Ah I want to see your mouse, I love your creatures - did you do a video? Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it and very happy if it inspired you :)
I love this mushroom it’s beautiful 😊
Thank you very much Jean, I really enjoyed making it too :)
Gorgeous! I purchased a kit from Sue :)
Lovely!! I think she's sold out now, so we were lucky to get some of her first batch of dyed velvet - I'd love to see the mushrooms you create with it and I'm sure Sue would too, please do share some pics in the Discord community or FB group :)
Beautiful Annie, I've got a little mushroom kit also and I've lots of ideas
oooh lovely, can't wait to see your take on this Karen, and you'll love that velvet, it's even more gorgeous in real life :)
There's nothing to top waking up on a Sunday morning with a cuppa Joe and a video making magic mushrooms! LOL
hehe that sounds like a perfect weekend to me too Penny! :)
Wow super colourful fabric from Sue more is more, love the magical mushroom you’ve made Annie. Looks like you had fun, I’m sure there will be a whole cluster soon. Loved the video just makes you feel happy watching it.🍄 x 💐
Thank you so much Jen, I'm really happy you enjoyed it - my head is bursting with ideas for more mushrooms, baskets to put them in, woodland scenes with felted and stitched forest floor, strange caterpillars with hookah pipes .... this could go on and on .... isn't it wonderful how one beautiful piece of fabric and a vague idea can just take wings and fly, another example of how we all inspire each other in this creative community of ours :) xo
Beautiful Annie. Yes Sue make kits. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you so much Rhonda - yes, Sue did make kits, they're flying out fast from what I've seen, I added a link in the description box :)
A "Alice in Wonderland " fantastical magic garden. Colors are amazing 👏
Oooh now you've got me thinking Pam - ooh oooh I could felt a caterpillar to sit on a weird and wonderful mushroom. Thank you for the inspiration! :)
Such a cute craft, its adorable ☺☺☺
Thank you so much Chantelle, I really enjoyed this one, so many more ideas to try with different shapes of mushrooms and different ways of constructing them :)
That's really cute!!
Thank you so much Celeste! :)
Oh its gorgeous lovely colours and stitched textures thank you for sharing
Thanks so much Jenny😊I love the projects you share on Instagram too, though I'm not really active on IG these days, so I'm very happy to see you now have a UA-cam channel and of course I've subscribed :)
Yes!! Sue should sell kits, definitely! Embrace the wonk, yes, I love how organic your shroom looks. The way you modified the shape of the stem looked really interesting and fun to do. It came out absolutely magical!
Thanks Carrie - I think each shroom will insist on doing its own thing, but I have already dug out my fungi book to find more inspiration for shapes and textures. Though if you came across one like this in the woods I think you'd do a double-take! Sue has now made up kits, I've added a link to the description - I think they're going fast :)
Great 'shroom' making and I love how you've used the purple for the gills. The velvet is absolutely gorgeous and so I've picked up one of Suzie's kits :). Before I go I have to ask, what brand of scissors are those on your desk? I always notice scissors - lol!
Thanks Susan, and I will very much look forward to seeing what fabulous fungi you create with you kit from Suzie. My large dressmakking scissors are Korbond, they're really good actually and they've been given a really good testing over the last two or three years since I retired :)
Love your magic mushroom, especially the simple but really effective way you made the purple underside….ab-fab. xx.
Thanks so much Maggie😊I have some different construction ideas to try out, but this was pretty straightforward and effective I think - struck lucky for my first go! I thnk I may end up with a whole basket of mushrooms - now that's got me thinking :)
Love the mushrooms, thanks for showing us how to make them Annie. Suzie fabric is just fantastic. Might have to try and make one this coming winter 😊 Mw. NZ
Thank you Margaret! Funny to think of you guys approaching winter now as we have spring in the air, but yes, a perfect autumn/winter project, especially as autumn is the best time to find mushrooms growing in the wild! Please do share some pics if you make one :)
I made a mushroom out of 2 yoyos and put some stuffing between them and sewed it up and made my stock a little smaller and not quite as fat as yours and wrapped lace around the stalk I put some fancy bead work on top of the mushroom that came from a sari...I used like satin fabric on both the top and bottom...the gills...I took a little distressing ink and used it on the stalk....probably will make another one a little smaller than this one and put them in a cloche with some moss around the bottom of them....
Oh Linda that sounds beautiful and a genius idea to make the mushroom from two suffolk puffs, I'll definitely try that. Please do share some photos of your mushrooms in the FB group or Discord community, I would love to see them :)
Lovely idea but I. Must not fall down another rabbit hole, got this one on the back burner though xxxx
Already fallen Jacquie, already landed at the bottom! The good thing is though, that I can use loads of stuff I already have :)
That it so lovely, I liked how you shaped the stalk 🍄
Thank you so much Sally - I really enjoyed this, can imagine making a whole basketful! :)
How much fun was THAT??!? I absolutely adore it, Annie! (Clever Boots!) That gorgeous velvet from Sue with such delicious colours just cried out to be made into this wonderful creation. A wee forest/grouping of these would be fabulous, wouldn't it? Fun! I do envy your talent with a needle and I thoroughly enjoyed watching this come together. Thank you so much for sharing. Much love and bless, dear friend xoxo
Thank you so much Lindsey! hehe Clever Boots, wonder if I can make that stick?! :) oh yes a little cluster with some moss, stones, leaves, which I could part-felt, part-stitch, that would look lovely, also fancy weaving a basket and filling it with an assortment of fabulous fungi. Hope you're doing ok and recovering well Lindsey xo
@@artyfartyannie Hallo, Dearest! Yes, feeling loads better. Thank you so much. I've a new job that's taking much of my time at the mo. Long hours for now but will settle down in a wee bit. I'm truly hoping I can be there for your livestream this weekend. Fingers crossed! Sending huge love & hugs, dear friend! Xoxo
Lovely mushroom. Aww the velvet fabric is fabulous. Himm soon to be sold fabric packs eekk um yes please. Gosh those sequins are beautiful catching the light. Had a Quick Look Suzie is making kits sending to England and America I’ve asked if she will send to NZ. Yes these mushrooms could be addictive I’m thinking would be great on the windowsill in my artroom, yep lovely bright happy mushrooms to look at as the weather turns to awful. Saturday night we had thunderstorms ⛈️ boy were they strong flashes in the sky every half second constant rumble with bangs and crashes last half an hour I fear autumn is on its way. Still had a lovely summer, way to hot and got to play on our beaches (tides here very strong so dangerous water but it was so calm loads of people swum and bonus no one drowned this year well here on the WC of the SI) which was rather fabulous.
Must get on Monday today and sigh it’s clean oven day ah the fun never ends, maybe I could have a look see and find some fabric I could play with this afternoon. Aww I got a kit! Yep will know wait on the postie here. Our postal service has well gone to the cats (would say dog but well let’s be truthful dogs would deliver quicker than NZ post lol) I’m getting post once a week. People are getting things supper late so I expect in two months I will receive my mushroom kit just right to play with on a cold winters day. I can wait.
Thanks Paula and ooh yes a little cluster on your window sill would be so cute. I'm thinking I'lll end up making a basket and then filling it with mushrooms, I have dig out my fungi book for inspiration, I do find fungi fascinating! :) Your postal service is pretty dismal isn't it? Is it any better if it's delivered from Amazon or other couriers rather than postal service or is it just as bad? I'm glad you had a lovely summer - time to get ready for some cosy autumn/winter crafting now :)
@@artyfartyannie yes other courier company’s are better, in fact our post courier is fine it’s just anything for normal post so a postal worker biking to deliver. In our area three posties have retired and no one employed to replace them so two people biking around Greymouth to deliver is well quite frankly appalling ergo once a week for normal mail. Like a said it’s a mess. Feel sorry for our postie, he’s doing us, Blake town, Cobden and bodytown quite a bit for one postie.
Blimey poor postie - he'll be worn out as well soon won't he? Maybe they need to pay the posties better or something. I feel very lucky to have our postal service :)
Annie, what is the name of your needles?
I can't remember which I was using on this Rhonda, but I usually prefer Chenille needles, because they're small and sharp but have large eyes, and they come in lots of different sizes, I find them really nice to use for slow-stitching projects, so it was probably one of those :)
Wow it turned out absolutely gorgeous! Well done Annie you did so well! Very inspiring 💕
Thanks so much Liz! 😊I think I got lucky for my first try, can't wait to try out some more ideas now, with different shapes of mushrooms and ways of constructing them - endless possibilities I think :)
@@artyfartyannie I’ve ordered my kit from Suzie! Hope it comes before I leave🤞
I think it’s amazing 💖💖💖
Thank you Mary! xo
Can’t wait to give a try. 🩷🩷🩷
Wonderful! I hope you will share some pics when you do, I would love to see how yours turn out - I think everyone's will be so different, my plan is to make a basket full of them - eventually! :)