Tilda's Craftings Friends Snail

She's finally ready.....

the snail from Tone Finnanger's re-released book "Tilda's Crafting Friends" and she's pulling a little crate on wheels.

Now she can help me when I'm sewing my Tilda creations !!

It all started ou with finding the right combination of things and colours.

Fabric for her body wasn't so difficult, but to find the right colour combination for her shell and little pillows, hmmmm that wasn't so easy because Tone used old fabrics in her book

(those of you who have this book know what I mean)

and I wanted to "pimp" the snail by using Tone's 2010 fabrics.

But they are all such lovely fabrics that I just couldn't choose and things have to "talk/speak" to me.....

it has to feel right !!

Anyways, in the end I did find the right combination and I could finally start......

Here's a close up of the snail and what I think looks funny is that she looks cross eyed, hahaha


And a close up of the little crate she's pulling......
I used Decorfin paint number 523 "Ice Blue" and added a little bit of water,
to give it a "white wash" or in this case a "blue wash" look, haha.
Now I don't think you guys can see the result, but I guess you know what it should look like.
The wooden spools are from my grandma who's now 92 years old and still had a few in her sewing box,
so......... THANKS GRANDMA ; )