Adding a needle-felted eye to Deb's pre-felt bunny...
...then flipping it over and creating a tableau (in reverse)...
...on the surface of my resist.
Covering the design with wool roving and layers of a sky-blue wool batt.
After flipping the project to side two...
...I trimmed the 'overhanging' wool...
...and added more fun, pre-felt designs!
Covering side two with layers of a cotton-dot-studded wool batt...
...and wrapping the wool around to side one...
...then adding additional layers of merino roving to finish off both sides.
After folding down the tote top on each side...
...the felting is begun.
The finished tote (side one)...
...with bunny detail.
...and side two...
...with a close-up view of the multicolored cotton dots!
Because 'representational art' is not my strong suit...
...I took advantage of my friend, Deb's mad scissors skilz earlier this year...
...and this set of happy, pre-felt shapes was the result!
It was so much fun to have them on hand while fashioning this tote...
...and in the future, I think that I'll request some from every visiting feltmaker! Grin.
