Thursday, July 31, 2014

Sample Tote Made With a Re-Purposed Scarf

Applying 'squid-like'...

...and 'frame-like' pieces of re-purposed bouclé scarf...

...to the surface of my resist...

...and covering them with wool roving.


                                               Flipping the project to side two...

                                   ...adding additional re-purposed embellishments...



                              ...and covering them with layers of wool roving, as well...

                                               ...(but in a slightly lighter shade).



                                               Folding down the top of the tote.



                                           Side one, mid-way through felting...


                                                             ...and side two.

                                  

                                                   The finished tote (side one).                                     


                                                A detail of the bouclé loops.



                                                  Side two of the finished tote.



                                              Continuing my 'tote exploration'...

                      ...for the class that I'm due to teach this September in MN...

                                ...I found a length of discarded, bouclé knit scarf...

                                           ...and just started 'fiddling around'. :)

                                     The synthetic yarn felted-in beautifully...

                       ...and the 'grape-like' bouclé loops remained quite discrete.

                  Note: individual strands of this yarn would make a lovely addition...

                 ...to representational projects featuring grapevines or flowers.


                   

2 comments:

Rachel said...

Good to know the synthetic behaved so well - I'm always afraid synthetics will misbehave and cause you difficulties!

Heather Woollove said...

Rachel--You're right that they can sometimes be a real pain...but because of the lovely, open-weave nature of this piece, it felted like a dream!
Hxx