Bringing the past to life ...
 Peregrine 16"
After creating Peregrine from a fair piece of antique mohair earlier this year, I couldn't oppose purchasing some more awesome vintage mohair when it was made to be availed of to me a few weeks ago. I also had the beneficial fortune to bargain for some original Full boot button leather eyes! There's something very exciting about formation a teddy uphold from such venerable physical and it really is a claim to be able to fetch it back to life!
 Antique mohair with arras
I've been working with an portentous piece from my new antique fabric stash this week; it has a beauteous patina and a invented tapestry devise woven through it. So far, this has been a claw biting employment because parts of the fabric have been a small too frail for drift and of course, I wanted to utilise the arras design to its fullest in posse to create a really striking big support, so it was crucial I made plain I didn't wear any of the precious mohair.
Act in progress ...
As I scribble, I have two arms, two legs and a material substance ready and later today I will be in action...
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