Showing posts with label Felter's Fling 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Felter's Fling 2011. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

There Are 'Many Ways To Skin A Cat' (Idiom)

An experimental project using multiple resists.

 
The finished 'accordion-pleat' felt...



...and seen again, here, from the open end
 
A second version of the project, done in a completely different way...

 
...using pre-felt circles stitched together with wool yarn.



I think it looks very 'sea creature-like'...
 
...especially the 'boingy bits' of art yarn which were a gift from my sweet friend, Lindy.

 
'Look, Mama!', it's a mermaid throne! :)

 
This is a project that I first noticed...

...during the 'Midweek Sharing Time' at Felter's Fling, 2011.

When I returned home that summer...

...I fashioned the yellow and orange piece (above) using multiple resists...

...but found it a 'fiddly' and frustrating thing to do.

At Marjolein Dallinga's class this summer...

...I discovered that there's a much simpler way to make a project like this!

By stitching pre-felt circles together with lengths of wool yarn...

...I was able to avoid the awkward fiber layout of my earlier attempt...

...with virtually identical results! :)

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Finished WIP: 'Sandwich Felt' Purse- Part 1 of 2

'Scrunching up' silk and cotton gauze...

 
...and covering it with a layer of wool...

 
...and a thin silk scarf.

 
Wetting out the piece...

 
...and, after felting it, drying it en plein air.

 
Unfortunately, during felting, some of the cotton sections turned a little pink...



...from 'used' soapy water that had residual dye in it. :(
 
So, while I was dyeing the silk for my nuno jacket...

...I decided to pop this piece in as well...

...and, wow, what a difference it made!

 
I made this portion of the project back in August, 2011 at Felter's Fling...

...and have had it tucked away ever since.

It was my sample piece for a 'laminating' technique taught by Liz Clay that week...

...for possible use as a couture embellishment on our felted garments.

Unfortunately, sections of it had turned pale pink...

...from dye in my soapy water, left over from another project.

My 'failed project inertia' was finally overcome recently, when I threw it into a dye bath...

...but I find it curious that it came out so much 'bluer' than the silk that I dyed along with it!

Like nearly everything else that finds its way into my 'felting orbit'...

...it somehow ended up as a bag! Grin.

Next time: the finished purse...

...and the opportunity to win it.

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