I want to make some small spirals that will work on the stick-type keychain/bag charm things I have. I did them with some sheep I had last year.

I have a T-shirt that says; Hold on, Let Me Overthink This. And this is where I am starting with this project. I took Helen’s Spiral course last year, and it was amazing. If you have a chance, you should take it. I want to scale this down to end up about a 3-inch drop on the spiral. So I am starting by thinking this is going to be really hard to do, so naturally it is.

I started by making an underlay spiral to use as a template and resist.

The spiral was small, as I said, so I had to cut my fibre as it was far too long for one of the layers. Can you hear the spinners screaming NOOOO in the background? LOL Also, I was being supervised by Jan’s Llama

After much fiddling, it was sturdy enough to be removed from the resist. I worked on it more, but the layout was not good, and there were thin spots and narrow spots.

All in all, a sad looking spiral.

Next, I  made some prefelt to try.

I tried to stretch and shape it around the resist. I already knew this was not going to work well. Wet felted prefelt does not have the stretch of commercial needle felted prefelt. But I kept going anyway.

 

This one is better, but although it’s hard to see, the middle of the spiral is very lumpy.

Here they are flat side by side. You can see the pumpy parts of the pink better here.

 

Oh well, it was fun trying. My friend Hether decided they were just what she needed for her bike.