Thought I’d show you these few items before they go off to new homes.
This is natural grey Merino wool with silk fibres.
Deep purple and crocus coloured Merino
I did call this one Bark and you can barely see where the brooch ends and the table begins.
Loving all the copper coloured glass beads.
I think this one is my favourite colour and I’m very pleased to have used some of
the rug wool which I rescued from a skip and dyed.
Another new brooch for your perusal. I’m really not sure about this one but I don’t think I’ll be making any more of them. Not quite sure why but I’m just not finding it that appealing. Thoughts?
I’ve been having a play around to find a new brooch style that I like and I have a favourite but take a look and let me know what you think.
For a change I’ve been manipulating 2D felt rather than shaping it during the felting process. I really liked the idea of this one but having made it up I’m not keen so this one won’t be making it into my shop.
Quite interesting shapes which would benefit from a few stitches or beads. My vote goes to the blue one but what do you think?
Last night I wasn’t sure about these but this morning it’s love. Yes, they’ll definitely be making it into my shop. I’ve tried them with buttons in the centre and that doesn’t work, what do you think, a few beads to finish them off?
It’s a few days since the actual workshop but this has been my first opportunity to show you what we made.
I’m sure you’ll agree that they’ll look fabulous with beaded centres and attached to bags, hats or coats. We used different techniques to make the flowers and included some fabrics and threads to give extra texture and detail. The key to achieving specific shapes without the need for excessive cutting is to be careful with how you lay your fibres out. The final two flowers are examples of a technique of multi layered flowers without the need for stitching the layers together.
There’s one which is destined to take a part in Halloween celebrations, I’ll let you work out which one. Although it’s not a flower you can see the same technique was applied to making the brown leaf which I think is lovely. What a talented bunch they were.
I thought it was time to make some new flower brooches and to make them a little smaller than the last design.
I’ve done 2 or 3 different shapes but allowed them to be quite organic shapes. The centres are embellished with glass beads and threads were incorporated during the felting process. The majority will be going to Cakewalk, the others will appear in my shop shortly.
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