Wet Felt Study 3

This piece began as another piece of wet felt.  I used my embellisher to add a small piece of hand knitting and some swirls of additional wool rovings.  Finally, I added the hand embroidery and beading.   The ‘binding‘ was created by folding the edges and securing them with the embellisher before adding the stitching.  I especially like the way the colours came together in this piece.  I don't usually work with pink, but I really like how it worked with the green and blues in this piece.

Another Felt Piece

I've been playing around with another piece of a wet felted background.  I decided to make it a bit more sculptural and then I added a lot of hand embroidery and beading to it.  I think it's done for now....

Earth Day ATCs

I participate in a couple of ATC swaps.  One with my GOE fibre art group and one with Lisa Fulmer at http://lisalizalou.blogspot.com/p/atc-swap.html.  Check it out if you'd like to participate. 

Lisa sets a theme each month, so I always make 3 ATCs at a time.  One I keep for myself, and the other two are used for the swaps.  This month's theme is Earth Day. I had been playing with some wet felting and needle felting (using my embellisher) and I made a nice mix of green, white and blue swirls that reminded me of some of the satellite shots that we sometimes see of the Earth.  I like the texture and depth that the Earth has to it.

Wet Felting Piece is Finished.

Several years ago I was beach combing on the beach at Goderich with my friend Heather.  I picked up this wonderful little piece of wood that day and I've had it in a bin in my studio since.  Well, it has finally found a new use.  I love the way the green felt supports and frames the blue embroidered piece and I think the piece of wood, with it's wonderful, aged grey colour and interesting twist and turns contrasts nicely with the delicate embroidery and beading.

Wet Felting

A couple of friends and I are planning to play around with wet felting, so I decided to give it a try.  Here's my first piece.  The green circles worked out quite well, but some of the white balls didn't adhere so I used my embellisher to integrate them into the blue.  I then folded it into itself and added some embroidery and beading.