More Snow.

It seems that winter hasn't quite finished with us yet.  For the second time this week snow is falling outside my window.  So I've put my spring embroidery on hold for a while and given in to the fun of making a pure white bowl from silk fibres and embroidered with heavily textured threads.  It will join my other 'balloon' bowls. Here's my embroidered calico one from an earlier post

Balloon Bowl

My work bench gets itself into a real muddle sometimes, so I've spent part of the day un-muddling it.  In so doing I unearthed my 'balloon bowl', made some years ago now, in which I store all sorts of small soft things. The base is calico over papier mache and the surface decoration is partly raised stitches in various shades of cotton perle and partly lace knitting in cotton yarn.  Wrapped cords edge the embroidered sections.