Green And Blue Ruffle Scarf

Stitching pre-felt ruffles to the main body of the scarf...

 

...using nylon thread.



The finished scarf front... 

 

...and back.

 

See how each ruffle 'felts into' the pre-felt base...

...leaving a faint line where the fibers intertwine?

 

Four finished pre-felt scarves...

 

...plus two more, equals six. :)

 

Here, you can see how very long the red and yellow scarves really are!

 

I'm not quite finished showing you my Christmas gift scarves...

...but I'm getting closer. :)

Next time, I'll shake things up a bit and show you a different kind of holiday gift...

...a small clutch bag with silk and wool pre-felt leaves.

'Puff The Magic Dragon' Scarf

Preparing two shades of green pre-felt...



...then trimming them into scarf-width strips...

...and stitching them together with nylon thread.

 

Cutting holes into the pre-felt surface...

 

...and adding sewn-on bits of wispy blue pre-felt for the 'scales'.

 

Wetting out the project and beginning the felting process.

 

The finished scarf front...

 

...and back.

 

This finished scarf reminds me of a friendly, not a fire-breathing dragon! :)

 

Working with stitched-together pre-felt pieces, yet again...

...I made a pair of scarves (with male gift recipients in mind) using green pre-felt.

This one is the more dramatic of the two...

...and I think it quite resembles the imaginary dragons of my childhood.

Next time: the more subtle green scarf of the pair...

...and a chance to 'compare and contrast' with my other recent pre-felt scarves. :)

'Under The Big Top' Scarf- Part 2 of 2

The pre-felt scarf with stitched on ruffles.

 

Placing a layer of thin plastic between the ruffle and the scarf...

 

...prior to final felting.

 

The finished scarf...



...with stand-up ruffles...

...in 'circus-bright' colors.  

 

The back of the finished scarf.

 

See how some of the design comes through to the back after felting?

 

This was a fun scarf to make...

...because of its various 'elements'...

...and although it was comprised of many steps...

...it was not a difficult project to make.

Using a layer of plastic between the ruffle and the scarf during felting...

...made it easy to fully felt each component...

...without felting them together.

'Under The Big Top' Scarf- Part 1 of 2

Laying out two thin layers of superfine merino roving...

 

...and adding cut out bits from my last scarf as embellishment.

 

Wetting out and rolling the project to make a pre-felt.

 

A close-up of the irregular red and yellow bits.



Trimming a 'scarf-wide' strip from the dried pre-felt.

 

Adding wispy, trimmed off margins from my red and yellow scarves...

...to the surface of the pre-felt...

 

...as hand-stitched ruffles...

 

...using nylon thread.

 

As you can see...

...each pre-felt project that I made this fall...

...informed the next with its trimmed off 'leftovers'! :)

Using the cut out dots and edges from my red and yellow 'variations' project...

...I fashioned a new scarf in circus-like primary colors featuring sewn-on pre-felt ruffles.

Next time: the finished scarf.

Variations On A Red And Yellow Theme- Part 2 of 2

Scarf number two of the pair...

 

...with irregular holes snipped through its pre-felt surface.

 

As before, the scarf length...

...necessitated a bit of rolling and unrolling during felting..

...even on my long studio table! 

 The project, wetted-out...

 

...and mid-way through felting.

 

The finished scarf pair...

...one, demurely ruffled...

 

...and the other, naughtily pierced! Grin.

 

Because I prepared quite thin pre-felts for this project...

...the resulting scarves are very soft and supple...

...(nothing like this stiff-as-a-board iteration from my early days as a feltmaker!) :)

I hope that the wearers don't find them too long for true utility...

...and merely wrap them multiple times around the neck for warmth!

As I write this blog post, I find myself giggling a bit...

...since I just now realized that I gave the wild, pierced scarf to the more demure friend...

...and the more modest, ruffled one to the considerably more exuberant friend!

Variations On A Red And Yellow Theme- Part 1 of 2

Making two large pre-felt rectangles.



Stitching one yellow strip to one red strip with nylon thread... 

 

...and adding an 'opposite' color ruffle to each.

 

This scarf is very long...

 

...so I had to roll it up a bit during felting.

 

I used thin, painter's plastic as a resist...

...between the ruffle and the scarf surface.

 

Partway through felting.

 

Continuing my pre-felt experimentation...

...I prepared two long pre-felt rectangles...

...and trimmed them into narrow sections for felting.

After attaching one yellow to one red section...

...I hand-stitched the wispy trimmed off lengths to the surface of the scarf as ruffles...

 ...red on yellow and yellow on red.

Next time: the finished scarf...

...and a 'fraternal twin' with an entirely different 'look'! :)