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Finishing an Eco Piece
Last year Cathy (Luvswool) and I did some eco dyeing. https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2016/11/03/eco-printing/ They pieces have been hanging around and I was going through them again and decided I liked the heavy cotton one in particular. It was time to finish it. … Continue reading
Posted in eco printing, Sheep Farming, Uncategorized
Tagged eco printing, embroidery, fleece, lambs
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Felting a Rug on a Trampoline
Our guest author/artist is Tuulikki Zara Rooke. Last winter, I buried a couple of raw fleeces in the snow, and let the snow melt “wash” them. Well, it´s not the most thorough way of washing fleeces, but they were slightly … Continue reading
Posted in Wet Felting
Tagged beating wool, embellishing, fleece, raw locks, trampoline, wet felting, wool
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Natural Wools
I think I might’ve mentioned a few times how much I love natural wool, animal fibres and embellishment fibres 🙂 I made a couple of natural felt pieces recently. This first one uses lots of different breeds of wool inlcuding … Continue reading
Weaving a Rug from Raw Fleece
Our guest artist/author is Zara Tuulikki Rooke. We’ve recently seen the beautiful fleece rugs she’s felted and shown us on the forum with her daughters. But she has taken it a step further and has built a loom and woven … Continue reading
Posted in Weaving, Wet Felting
Tagged building a loom, fleece, gotland, Swedish sheep, weaving, wet felting
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Shearing Sheep in Sweden
Our guest author/artist today is Zara Tuulikki Rooke. She shared with me the fact that April was time for shearing her sheep. So, I invited her to write about it so that we can all experience it since most of … Continue reading
Washing some Fleece
While looking for something else I found some unknown dirty wool. There was lots of nice curls so that’s probably why I kept them. There wasn’t a whole fleece but just a piece of one, enough to fit in a dish washing … Continue reading
From Raw Fleece to Carded Batts of Wool
Our guest author/artist today is Zara Tuulikki Rooke. She generously offered to take us through the process of preparing fibers from her own sheep to use for felting. As I enjoy felting, I feel very fortunate to also be able … Continue reading
Posted in Fiber Preparation, Guest Writer, natural wools, Sheep Farming, Wool
Tagged Asen, Batts, drum carding, fiber preparation, Finull, fleece, gotland, locks, Rya, shearing, sheep, wet felting, wool
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