Laying out raw fleece from a
multiple-cross breed of sheep...
...and covering it with layers of wool roving.
Felting the rug...
...until it is fully felted...
...then feeling horrified to discover that somehow during my layout...
...the fleece 'tips' had not all been oriented 'out'!
To rectify this insanity, I then went a little insane, myself!
I pulled off bits of loose wool roving...
...ripped the rug into chunks...
...and
'Frankenstitched' the sections back together again...
...with green wool yarn!
After hand-stitching the rug back together again...
...I added a layer of cotton scrim to the backside of the rug...
...for structural support.
Some close-ups of the lovely finished texture...
...of this very
strange rug...
I had a large raw fleece that had been languishing in storage...
...for nearly two years.
It was some sort of '
this crossed with
that and a bit of
this, too'...
...and it was very soft and pretty.
Unfortunately, as I was laying it out...
...I could not tell the 'tip ends' from the 'cut ends' on a large swath of this fleece!
(Whether it was because of the long storage time or the breed, I cannot say...
...but I've never experienced this kind of thing before!)
Next time: more close-up photos of the finished rug...
...now in pride-of-place in my living room...
..despite its
dubious origins!! Grin.
