Miscellaneous   Appliqué         All sorts of things Appliqué Appliqué is a technique quicker than embroidery. But I find it less fun. Yet I did have a try now and then. As far as I can remember I made this cowboy on primary school using a pattern. It didn't came out right with his pants and the position of his body. Well, sin of one's youth.... I only tried, I said so before. The blue cloth has the shape of a round fishbowl. You can see only a part of it on the picture. The appliqué and the embroidery is all done off the cuff with my sewingmachine Pfaff 1222. In fact this project should be exposed on the page of UFO's (UnFinished Objects). It is only the centerpiece of what was going to be a bigger something. The plan was to go more "dark" to the edges. Spring - Summer - Autumn - Winter. I still like the start very much. For the 12½ year Anniversary of my (sadly deseased) eldest brother Paul and his then wife Marian I made a family tree in 1980. The three apples (of their eyes) are their children Paul jr., Linda and Eveline. Ah, the eighties ... Now I think this cloth is an ugly monster. All sorts of things I tried a lot of different techniques. Here you find some of my attempts. My oldest project, made in Kindergarten, is a flower stencilled on a piece of jute. Quite structured for a little girl, don't you think? This cactus pincushion I gave someone (Sister-in law?, Mum?) on Sinterklaasavond (the eve of Santa Claus). It is made out of felt. On the same Sinterklaasavond I gave this cushion, an Antillian cent, to my sister-in-law Noris. She is born and bred on Curaçao. Made of gold-colored lining, quilted with fiberfill using my sewingmachine and filled with a round slice of foam. The hardest part was finding a picture of an Antillian coin. Internet was yet to come. A tiny car made of beads and little cogs of a watch. Made of all kinds of little things, just like the car. The small button is a genuine super-mini Barbie-button. The coin is a para ("cent") from the former state of Yugoslavia. This tapestry made of virgin wool I purchased as a kit. Piet made most of the knots.