boucle – Felting and Fiber Studio

The Wild Table Runner

January 22, 2017 Marilyn aka Pandagirl Comments 12 comments

I have a bin full of yarn. A lot of it I’ve either dyed or picked up at garage sales or thrift stores. A majority of it isn’t wool based. So I thought it would be fun to make something using a variety of these yarns and see how they felted.

It started out to be a pillow cover, but later when I started to lay it out I changed my mind. Originally, I had a swerving design in mind. But thought there was too much empty space and the design would probably distort the whole thing. I used two batts of merino and a prefelt over that as a base.

I added more yarns and moved them apart so they’d have room to create their own design.

Here are the yarns I used, not necessarily in this order. Some I used more than once.

From left to right:

Synthetic ladder yarn
Synthetic ladder yarn second color
Decorative synthetic flag yarn
Mohair/metallic
Bamboo
Acrylic yarn
Wool Boucle
Merino slub yarn
Hand dyed thick and thin yarn
Worsted wool
Novelty yarn with nylon, tactel, cotton and lame
Merino slub yarn
Wool roving sold as yarn
Wool/metallic
Peruvian wool
Thick and thin wool yarn commercial
Mohair/metallic novelty yarn

I had some “Riot Eyelash Yarn” I decided to use as an edging. Which I sewed on using a zigzag stitch after it was felted. It is aptly named.

Here it is laid on a white background to show the eyelash edging.

A few closeups:

Strangely enough the only one I had to fix after felting was the multicolored acrylic yarn which I’ve used before without a problem. I had to needle felt it down. The Peruvian wool also had a few places to tack down, but I think it was because it was so tightly wound the merino prefelt couldn’t grab it as well. Even the ladder yarn and synthetics seemed to be fairly firm in place.

Here it is on it’s new home a glass coffee table.

Its fairly dark here and it seems I got a bit of glare from the flash. What are you working on in the New Year?

Creating Panels for a New Project

November 27, 2016 Marilyn aka Pandagirl Comments 19 comments

I had such a good time using my scraps and embellishments for my coupon case, I decided to do a larger project using panels. And using up more of my scraps.

Here is the first large panel. I started on white prefelt and added bits of leftover batts creating a cloud effect for the background..

Then I added silk selvage, pieces of cheesecloth, silk pieces, scraps of scarves, metallic fabric, yarns and a little of this and that, topped with threads and a bit of wool wisps to secure the threads.

The next panel I forgot to take a pic of the cloud background. But for this one I used silk selvedge, silk scraps, cheesecloth, boucle yarn bits, mohair, prefelt offcuts, and pieces of leftover roving amongst other things including threads.