Altered Coasterd for Autumn

The current challenge on the Art'n'Soul Group on Flickr is an altered coaster for Autumn. I used to do lots of these as wall hangings and loved doing them. However come to this one and what happens - complete crafter's block!!! It has taken me simply ages to mess around with ideas and come up with something.

I am not 100% happy with the results but they at least have the Autumn shades I was trying to achieve.

More collage and a course

Not much happening recently apart from lots of stuff to do at home so it is keeping me out of the work room. I have done a couple of collage efforts recently which are not too bad, but need more work.

I also had a wonderful day course at Alston Hall which was very messy but very enjoyable. Transfer dyes and fabric printing with wax resist. Managed to get lots of interesting effects and produce quite a lot of potential backgrounds for future projects whenever I get thet ime to actually make anything! Quite a few embroidery and stitching projects in the offing so I am just waiting for the opportunity to get my machine out and get going with some serious stitching!