I've been fiddling around with synthetic fabrics lately...
...trying to figure out when they work in felting and when they don't.
When I found this soft and lovely, pale chartreuse lace...
...I wanted to see whether it would work for a nuno felt piece.
First, I laid out the fabric...
...then placed little mounds of different chopped up bits of fibers on it.
I hacked up pieces of silk scarves, leftover silk selvage strips from my dye pots and various hairy and fringy yarns...
...piling them in different color sections in a checkerboard-ish design.
I applied green wool around the perimeter of the runner...
...and topped it all with a layer of white wool.
At this point, I was crossing my fingers, hoping that it would felt together...
...and not end up as one giant bag of fabric confetti!
More next time...
3 comments:
You left us in suspense here....guess that will bring us back.
Hahaha, Leedra--
You figured out my 'dastardly plot'! (Insert Snidely Whiplash-like moustache twirling here.)
nice..your site is great and focused! your nice!
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