As you may recall...
I received a host of lovely Christmas presents last year...
...many of them fiber-related...
... and I've been wanting to use some of my new wool (thanks, M!)...
...and wonderful hand spun yarn (thanks, Kim!) ever since.
I made batts from the wool with my drum carder...
...and laid out strips of my batts, some red synthetic 'dotted-swiss'-ish fabric...
...and the yarn.
I left some open areas which became holes after felting...
...but I didn't do a good job of placing them evenly throughout the scarf...
...so they are more prominent in some sections than others.
My friend, C, came to town to see her college-aged daughter one weekend, though...
...and when I offered it to her as a gift, she didn't seem too bothered by the irregularities! :)
(Doesn't she look cute in it?)
I'd like to try this project again and pay a bit more attention to the lay out.
3 comments:
looks good haether!! What are the fabric "pieces" you used? cotton, silk?
Thanks, Kim! (Did you recognize your yarn?) :)
The red fabric isn't silk or cotton-it's one of the weird 'synthetic' fabrics that I bought the other day to try.
It's a very sheer, gauzy red fabric with self-same fabric 'dots' coming through from the flat front to the slightly fuzzy back...what we call 'dotted Swiss' here in the US.
Beautiful! And I'm sure it's going to see a lot of wear as time goes by. :)
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