Here’s my attempt at capturing the essence of summer in a textile piece for the third quarter challenge.
‘Reflections of Summer’ is a needle-felted sunhat brooch (pin).
I took a scrap piece of felt then drew a life-size pair of sunglasses outline on it, also marking out the division between sand, sea and sky.
I filled in the frame with loose fibres then outlined it with wool yarn.
Using loose fibres, I needle-felted yellow, turquoise and blue to represent sand, sea and sky then white fibres for the sun.
I formed birds and a boat using a thick white thread. I had planned to stitch some sparkly beads to the frame but it looked naff so I just added a few white stitches instead.
Then came the tricky job of cutting the white backing felt away as close to the needle felting as I could. One slip of the scissors and it would be goodnight Vienna.
My sunhats have had some whacky additions over the years. For a bit of fun, I made a Carmen Miranda hat for Annie …
… Annie got her own back by persuading me to balance the sunhat brooch on my nose 😊
