This last Sunday I taught a nuno felt class. I had five students. They chose their scarf blanks and we started.
I think for a change I took more pictures. I am going to do each scarf separately. If you click on any set it will become a slideshow with bigger pictures. I hope you enjoy looking at the class as much as we enjoyed doing it. I have as much fun teaching as the students do making the scarves. I get to do it all again with 6 students this Sunday.
I finished the Hat I was teasing you with last week. Now you know what I did with the spike.
I also finished this scarf. It has a antique colour wool base and then a thin layer of mixed brown on top and then some brass/coppery silk hankies stretched over it all.
I was thinking it might appeal to men as well as women.
I’ve started 2 more scarves. You will get to see them next time. I may get one more done but then it’s time to start ironing and tagging everything for the coming weekend. the show info is here http://mvtm.ca/fibrefest-2016/ It is always a bigger job than I think it will be.
My show is coming up fast. It is September 10-11. in Almonte Ontario. http://mvtm.ca/fibrefest-2016/ I dyed some more silk for scarves. Concentrating on purples.
I did get 2 scarves finished. The orange one with the yarn on it that I showed you before wetting last time. It needs ironing but I really like how it turned out. The finer yarn shows up much more in person.
This one has silk top on it and silk throwsters waste but I couldn’t get the throwsters waste to show up in the pictures.
I also started a hat that will go well with one of the scarves or by it self.
It’s cut open now and had another roll, then my knees wanted a rest form standing. I will show you the finished hat next time.
I want to get several more scarves done and a couple of hats and well a ton of other stuff I probably don’t have time to do. Oh well, I wouldn’t want to do anything different this time. LOL
I managed to get couple more scarves done this week. I forgot to get shots of them before I wet them but here they are finished and drying. I lightened them so they are more the colour they will be when they are dry. I had to be fast taking the pictures, the breeze was blowing again and my son had to play interference with the turkeys who were too interested in what I was doing.
I started another with the last of the scarf blanks I dyed. I will have to dye some more. I need to add some purple to the inventory.
The other thing I did this week was skein my hand spun yarn so I could get it washed. I want to sell it in small skeins for people to use as embellishments in wet felting.
I have to decide how much yarn to put in a small skein. I measured the yarn I put on the green scarf, The scarf starts out just shy of 8 ft. long. I was surprise how much yarn I used; 404 inches/ 33.66 feet/11.2 yards Or 1026.16cm/10.26 metres. So I think maybe 12yds/11meters in a skein. Some will be shorter because there isn’t 12 yard total but the length will be on each label. What do you think? Pricing it is the next problem.
This week I finished the hat I showed you just started last time and of course the matching scarf is now dry. I really like how the way the texture of the scrunched up silk pieces turned out.
You will have to forgive my pictures as I was taking them quickly because I was cuddling my granddaughter while my daughter was getting her brother to bed and forgot it was my turn to post
I used some of the dyed silk I showed you last time to make some scarves this week. I did the orange one with silk scrunched up on it as well and some yarns meandering over everything.
The next 2 are still wet. I finished them last night, just before writing this. I tried to lighten them up so you get a better idea of what they are like.
I seem to be in a sparkly mood. Everything has a synthetic sparkly yarn on it. I hope other people will like them too. I am going to have to do a proper inventory to see what I need for the fall shows.
I finished up some textured felt this week. First the pieces I started last week to cut up. They are the wet ones at the bottom of the post. https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2016/07/26/making-some-progress-and-free-give-away-reminder/
They turned out great. I am sorry for the quality of the pictures but the pictures are taken in full sunlight as that is all I had.
This one has so much depth. The yarn is quite sparkly. I am surprised It didn’t flash back more in the sun.
I liked this so much I decided to make a scarf and matching hat.
The scarf is now drying.
The hat is just ready to cut open. I will show you it finished next time.
Lastly I did some silk dying so I can make some scarves for the fall shows.
The green one on the left will probably get over dyed. It is two shades of green but they are to close. I will probably use some navy blue on part or it.
I can’t believe the summer is half over. I still have so much to do. How are you doing with your summer felting plans?
I’ve made a couple of camouflage inspired pieces lately. I think it must be one of my favourite ‘themes’, I know I’ve made a camouflage hat and drawstring bag, a shoulder bag, a notebook cover or two, and a felt cuff and coin pouches (I still use that one in the photo, 4 years on). Maybe it’s because I really enjoy doing felt layouts, choosing all the colours of wool and embellishment pieces. This first one uses some strips from a camouflage patterned silk scarf:
Here’s a close up of one half:
This next piece took a lot longer, it has patches of cotton gauze, the camo silk, cotton scrim, cheesecloth and some muslin Ruth dyed and sent to me:
There’s your piece in the middle, Ruth 🙂 :
I got a small kids’ weaving loom not so long ago, and finally had a go recently. One of the things I tried was pencil roving waste from World of Wool. I’ve tried weaving and felting with it before, but had to do it ‘freestyle’, this was the post about it: https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2015/06/08/pencil-roving-mats/ I think it was a bit ‘closer’ using the loom, and I left the edges longer, but it looked pretty much the same really:
Looking at it on an angle:
And close up:
I really like the pencil roving waste, it knits nicely and felts nicely. I’d use it more if I had more colour variety.
Now that I have the multi nuno sample pieces I made, and have some reference for how a lot of my fabric pieces felt, I thought I’d sort out some pieces to use. I’ve got quite a few pieces cut or torn, in various sizes and made a start with a piece of a woven pink scarf I got from a charity shop. I always put far too much effort into choosing the colours to go with the fabrics, you can’t tell, but the felt under the scarf actually has 3 different shades of pink, plus a few wisps of turquoisey blue:
I thought the pink scarf and this next piece would make nice coin purses, though I’ll probably use just a plain piece of felt for the inside section of the coin purse. This is a piece from a spearminty peacock scarf:
It has great ripples, this is a closer view:
I made a start on a few flower brooches, I was trying out some buttons:
I never did get around to making new fimo buttons, so I might have to look in my button box. I like how this flower turned out, I tried hard to get it thin and also wispy on the edges:
This one was made using a batt I blended from the Botany lap waste I mentioned last time, I blended the pale pinky lilac with some of the grey, it made a kind of pale lilac/lavender. I added a few wisps of lemon and tussah silk.
I have a feeling it’s going to be hard to find a button to match that!
You may remember that I am getting a new drop spindle http://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2015/12/23/i-am-getting-a-new-drop-spindle/ I couldn’t decided on what colours I wanted so I decided to make several pieces of nuno felt with silk throwsters waist on the felt side. If you don’t know, throwsters waste is a waste by-product of reeling silk. It is all sorts of very short silk fibers and threads. It dyes up lovely.
I picked out some small scraps of silk I had and then some wool and throwsters waste. As usual when I start felting I forget to take pictures. This one is laying out the wool on top of the silk.
Here they are finished. Both sides of each. Forgive the quality of the photos. The only camera I have is my iPhone.
This is nice but it really isn’t very interesting to me.
I normally like purple and orange together but this one ins not doing anything for me.
I go back and forth on this one. I am not sure I like the bright colours on the wool side.
This is a much thicker silk and it gave a different texture not so tight. I really like it.
This is a close up of the throwsters waste side it is the biggest piece and I couldn’t get as close and see it all. I really like it.
What’s your favourite?
Thanks to everyone who entered the Wet Felting Class giveaway, and thanks for the nice comments. The winners are: Lucette and Jan (comment at 2.38 am). We’ll contact you later today on the email you used to comment, with all the details.
I thought I’d get my sewing machine out this week and make a few things with offcuts, samples and test pieces. The first thing I made was a large notebook/diary cover. The main part only took a couple of hours, but then all the little fiddly bits, straps, flaps, attaching them and sleeves etc all seemed to take about another 4 once it was all added up. I got through quite a few cd albums making it anyway! This is the front with the clip closed:
This is the front opened:
This is the back:
And the inside sleeve:
I don’t know if you remember this piece I made earlier this year, testing out a piece of viscose scarf:
I thought it would make a perfect coin purse. I measured it, cut out the parts and then chose some embroidery threads:
Another felt piece I cut up for a purse was a flowery sample I made years ago for Beyond Nuno:
Choosing More threads:
It all started getting a bit hectic once I got the buttons out too 🙂
Hopefully, I won’t be able to show you the finished ones because I’m taking them to the Christmas Fair at the well being centre today 🙂