I know we are on December 24 tomorrow ... the 4 angels have already appeared, the four candles of Advent are already burnt ... but I really wanted to show you the beautiful advent calendar that I made entirely of wool felt two years ago. At the same time, given the type of calendar (you'll see ...), nothing would have served to show in early ...
Since my son left yesterday with his father and will not be here for Christmas, we decided to install the baby Jesus a few days in advance in the manger ... The schedule is completed - by cons, you will notice that Alexis was not greedy: there is more chocolate than it should ... : 0)
The Advent calendar Waldorf schools follow the order of appearance of elements on Earth. Thus, the first Sunday of Advent, the blue angel appears. All the following week, they are small
minerals installed in small pouches that will be installed on the table: stones, shells ...
The second Sunday, the Blue Angel is replaced by the angel and the red
plants make their appearance: trees and flowers made of felt, twigs, dried fruits ...
The third Sunday, the angel is replaced by the red white angel and animals
enter the scene: the sheep, the ox and the ass ...
Finally, the fourth Sunday, the purple angel entered and
humans take place each in turn: the shepherds, Mary, Joseph ... The latter move along the path, slowly, every day, towards the manger ... above that, 24 or December 25, placing a star to announce the arrival of baby Jesus ...
I purposely ordered a large felt pieces of blue wool, which I cut into 4 strips for embroidery dates and house the little surprises. I used a metal wire DMC had made me see all the colors ... Each calendar item was designed and then cut and pasted some carefully ... All this took me quite some time, but every year, I confess that I still find beautiful ...
Here for you some details of scenes and characters ...
The shepherd and his sheep - on which I sewed a little woolen true - but along the way, some shells and stones that symbolize the minerals, and some acorns, scales pine cones, twigs, trees and flowers felt ... symbolizing the plant.
the side of the crib topped the shining star, Mary and Joseph in their colorful traditional clothes, who admire the child, while the ox and the ass ensure ...
** The donkey, smaller in fact not belong to this table. It comes from a different table u felt that I used with Alexis when he was little, to tell stories of Christmas during Advent. In fact, I do not know what happened with my beautiful ass ... but what I do know cons is that it has disappeared ... and what I know is that I a cat (actually two, but a baby ...) feared ble! So even though I still hope to find my beautiful ass under furniture or in a wheelchair, I am more illusions ... Which is flat is that I no longer think have the paper sketches the different elements ...
And of course, like all Advent calendar that respects itself, ours contains chocolates ... In each pocket, in addition to the element to be placed on the table, I placed a "Mignonette" Gold Coast ... I'm not Belgian for nothing after all ... :-)
And I take this project felt for another show you done last year: a "memory book" of our Christmas if you want ... The initial idea was to make a book of drawings and songs, but I found it interesting to also put the drawings and letters to and from St. Nicolas, for example ... and why not some pictures??
Again, I "dropped lousse" with wool felt that I really enjoy working ...
A new nativity scene, of course: Mary on the back of his donkey, en route to Bethlehem ... as in the beautiful book that, once again, we read to prepare Great night at 'The donkey of Mary' (and the flight into Egypt), Gunhild Sehlin.
I reproduced this drawing drawing on a advent calendar
A. Ringeisen published in the magazine Living Craft last winter.
By cons, it's me I got the idea to make a book cover.
Tomorrow I will show you another little project in felt, began last year but I could not remember ... and I will try to finalize this year.
For cons, I have not managed to do the project which I tried ... I'll think again ...