Needlefelt samples

In this first sample I felted various fibres to a piece of felt that I had foiled and then felted organza over it. The whole piece was then cut into strips and woven together.

In this piece I felted some dyed scrim on to felt, cut it into strips and then wove it together. I want to add some hand stitching but haven't quite got the right colour thread so this will have to wait until a trip to the shops.

In this piece I felted various yarns into felt and again cut it into strips and wove it together. I found I prefered the back side of the piece as it was more muted in colour. I feel I need to do something more to this but at the moment I can't quite decide what it is. I've decdied to leave it and see if inspiration comes to me. If anyone out there has an suggestions, feel free to share them with me.

The final ones in lesson 3 use sari silk which I felted to a felt background. The whole thing was then bonded to a piece of Bondaweb on which I then cut into squares cut on the cross. The tiny pieces were then assembled onto another piece of felt and bonded to the background. I stitched down each join with a cotton perle thread using fly stitch.

Before cutting

After cutting and assembling

Detail

One of my 4" samples

This final piece was the challenge from Lesson 2 which was to interpret a photo of the Kimberleys in north-west Australia. For this I felted small pieces of felt, fibres and fabrics to a felt background which I had foiled first. Again a put organza over the top and felted it. The lines of dyed yarn were couched on with a copper thread and to finish I added some beads. The final photo shows a detail.

Don't forget the ideas for these experiements come from the EmbellishStitchEnrich course I'm doing with Dale Rollerson - her ideas, my interpretation.