An Old Piece and a New Piece
I only realised yesterday when I started to plan my blog post, that all my photos are still on my old hard drive. I was looking for another felt scrap piece that I recently started on when I came across a piece I made quite a while ago which I never posted about. If any of it looks familiar, it’s because I used it for the banners for the studio site and the forum 🙂
I wanted to make a piece with colours and textures inspired by the natural colours of the landscapes between Manchester and West Yorkshire. I used lots of different coloured natural wools and wool tops: Merino, Bluefaced Leicester, Manx Loaghtan, Zwartble, Black Welsh Mountain, Jacob, Gotland. I also used raw gotland locks and Lincoln locks.
I mostly used mid to dark shades of wool and animal fibre, there’s some sandy coloured Alpaca in here too.
For texture I used some wool nepps.
And also some silk noil, I added a lot of this so it would look like a solid band.
To create a kind of mossy/spongey moorland type grass look, I blended some plastic fibre with some natural shades and green shades of merino.
I was really pleased with the way it turned out, especially the shape, I wanted an organic shape because I thought this suited it better.
I did find the scrap piece that I was working on, I think this will be the outside of a notebook cover.
12 thoughts on “An Old Piece and a New Piece”
very beautiful, what a range of colours and I love the contrasts.
Thanks, Fiona 🙂
The landscape piece should be displayed – it’s too good to be put away in a box somewhere again.
I like the colours in the felt that will be a cover – it looks like everything a spectacular sunset should be.
Thanks, Lyn 🙂
I think I have some rubber circles I could attach for hanging or maybe yarn loops for a piece of driftwood.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a sunset that vibrant!
Love the landscape and I agree with Lyn, hang it!
Thanks, Ruth 🙂
The landscape it gorgeous. I love all the different textures and nature colors. I agree with Lyn and Ruth it should be hung. The scrap piece will make a nice notebook cover.
Thanks, Marilyn 🙂
I just need to make more scraps to finish the cover off!
I vote for hang it as well. I would like to see it mounted on a black canvas. the scrap peice iis cool too the stitching gives it good dimension.
Thanks, Ann 🙂
The zig zag stitching really does ‘make’ the whole scrap pieces, I think.
Yep I say hang it to zed, its gorgeous and I do love the scrap piece it’ll make a super cool notebook cover 🙂
Thanks, Kaz 🙂