Let's cloth it

I decided to begin a new design project for my etsy store - "Lets cloth it".
The purpose of it is to transform every day items made from different materials into textile ones, or everyday items we know as made by one kind of textile into another one.
The purposes is not only the transformation itself, but also looking for new meanings and utilities for each item.
The first Item is my cloth cups-
these cups are replications of the porcelain cups I inherited from my grandmother, who was my first needle craft teacher.
I already made some replication of them as part of my installation at the huismethethandje last May. In this project I want to create more functional design pieces.
I wouldn't recommend them for having your tea, but for putting some order on your desktop, organizing your crochet needles, brushes, buttons, pencils, pens etc.. they will be much more useful, but of course I would be glad to hear more ideas for other utilities.


These cups are now listed at my etsy store check them out here, or at my Dawanda store here.

The three bears set of cups

It was long time since the last time I had designed a new item for the let's cloth it collection.
One morning last week I had this idea of scaling up the cloth cups. First I thought I should scale up the medium one in 150% and the large one in 200%, but the patterns, particularly the large one, turned out enormously big, so I scaled the medium one in only 140%
This one is mother bear's cloth cup.

The large one was scaled up in 180%, this one is for father bear.

The third one is in ordinary human scale, the same as my other cloth cups.

It belongs to little baby bear.

*They are all listed at my etsy design store.

Cloth Bowls

I am so glad I am over all the stress of the last two months, it is such a great feeling to have some time for design and create new stuff, I missed it so much.

These cloth bowls actually aren't so new but they were waiting on my desktop for so long, till I got the time to shot them properly.

If you didn't guess yet they are the third part of my "let's cloth it project".

There are three of them:

Small

Medium

and large!

I just listed them at my Etsy store today.

Now I am going back to my new socks dolls, will tell more about them in few days.

Sending out new roots

At the last few days, the geranium flowers I picked from my father garden few weeks ago are been wilted.

It is been wilted since I began stitching the cloth flowers.
Each geranium flower is made up of many small units, so I spent few days stitching these small units.
Let's say it is not fascinating making one hundred of them, the skin of my fingers became stiff and heart when I am making more then five at once, it is very slowly too.
Stitching them made me feel desperate, regretting I began with it at first place.

This morning I already had enough to gather them into flowers.

My geranium branch seems to be dying so I took this photos for "immortalizing".

Then I noticed that there is new leaves growing up.

And it is even sending out new roots. I thought that when the flower are wilted the branch will pass away quickly.
Those new leave and root made me so happy, while I was into the small flowers stitching I didn't pay any attention for what is going on around me, unless it was being wilted, and suddenly what a surprise.
I think it is some kind of sign or something the plant trying to say, like: "hey, I am not only my flowers, you must look much more carefully in order to know who I really am and how I really feel, it is much more complicated then one can see at a glance".
I can remember many situations in my life I wanted to say that to others, don't you?

Meanwhile the first cloth flower was stitched together.

Cloth Cups

Inspired by my colorful sock dolls I created this new colorful version of my "let's cloth it" cups.

You can find them here or here