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Some Stitching, Some Felting and Some Growing Babies
I am slowly adding some stitching to the needle books. I did a small sheep book. It is about 2 x 3 3/4inches or 5 x 9.5 cm closed. And a larger one,4 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches or 11 … Continue reading
Needle Books Next Steps
Continuing on from my last post about making felt for needle books, Felt for Needle Books I started sewing them together. Well, first I had to iron them all which always takes much longer than you think it will. Everyone forgets … Continue reading
Felt for Needle Books
Not too long ago I saw some nice needle books for sale and thought I would like to make some too. It seemed to be in my and my machine’s sewing ability. They will be fun adding stitching later too. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Making, Design, Uncategorized, Wet Felting
Tagged felted book cover, needle book
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How to Make a Wrapped and Felted Bangle,
The other day I made a bangle. I have made them before but it has been a while. So long ago, I can’t find the pictures. I know I have seen them recently while looking for something else. I was … Continue reading
Pot Inside a Pot 2
It was 2 days later that I got back to my pot. After some preliminary rolling in the dryer, I rolled it by hand. It shrank quite a lot. it is very tight around the resist. It is time to … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Experiments, Nuno Felting, resists, Uncategorized, vessels
Tagged book resist, felt pot, felt vessel, pot in a pot, vessel in a vessel
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An interesting Vessel
I am sure if you are on Facebook you have seen the link to Fiona Duthie’s free online tutorial for a vessel within a vessel. https://www.fionaduthie.com/vessel_within_a_vessel/ It is fun to do. I have done it before. It is here if … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Experiments, Nuno Felting, resists, Tutorials, Uncategorized, vessels, Wet Felting
Tagged book resists, pot in a pot, vessel with in a vessel
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Stitching sample
I wanted to try stitching some mountains into a felted background. I did a search online for embroidered mountains but they were either very stylized or very detailed large pieces. Neither is what I wanted. I always want to do … Continue reading
Posted in Design, embroidery, Experiments, Stitching, Wet Felting
Tagged felt pictues, stitching on felt, wool pictures
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A little Social Spinning.
Since we are all sitting at home, and not going out to gatherings, I did a little spinning with some friends from my weavers and spinners guild on Zoom. A social distancing, social. For our first try, it went … Continue reading
Posted in fibre, Spinning, Uncategorized, Wool
Tagged spinning, spinning yarn form a batt, spinning yarn form rolags
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1st quarter jewellery challenge
This is the last of my contributions to this quarter’s challenge. I am looking forward to finding out what the next quarter’s challenge is. Last time I showed you my circles of silk and wool to be made into flowers. … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Design, Silk, Uncategorized, Wet Felting
Tagged felt flowers, silk hankies
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This and that.
I haven’t done much this week but I did decide to do some stitching on one of the circles I made earlier for the jewelry challenge. Seeing Antje’s post reminded me I had made a few stitching blanks. this one … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Design, embroidery, felt art, hand stitching, Prefelt, Stitching, Wet Felting
Tagged felt flowers, felt landscape, landscapes, silk hanky flowers
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