With a few quick stabs of a felting needle...
...I anchor yarn 'garland' and roving 'ornaments'...
...to the surface of my colourful pre-felt Christmas trees.
They're turned to face the resist...
...as is a cursive 'Hayes' (also anchored to a piece of white pre-felt).
The body of the resist...
...is covered with layers of wool from a sour apple green batt...
...and white merino roving is added to the white pre-felt top.
Three more trees are fashioned...
...for the back side of the stocking...
...and the project is flipped to side two.
I lost focus, somehow, after I placed the trees on side two...
...and instead of pulling the wool in and around the edges of the resist, first...
...I remembered only after I had already added wool to the second side.
The end result is that the finished stocking doesn't look completely seamless...
...even though it is. (C'est dommage.)
Next time: felting begins!
