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I wanted to crochet, felt and embellish balls for ornaments. Hanging or interior design element. So, yesterday I attempted one, I was satisfied with the way it turned out so did five more of different yarns. Decided to use variegated yarns as the base and then will embellish with solid type of felting and non…
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Framed this piece today. Peaches and teal felted wool design with glass gems of different sizes. Some trims with silver mylar running though it.
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Had the chance to get this one framed. Trying to stay in the neutral tones. The oblong pieces are stone as are the yellow-ish ones. The dark green is glass. Ribbon and trims finish out the wool felting
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Finished the work on this. Ready for framing. Two types of stone beads (yellow and green) and a glass green bead. Ribbon and trims are added.
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Well after working with this it morphed into something different. Its new name is, appropriately, “White Sandy Beach”. Framed it is 12”X12” The sea shells are a “new gift” to me from family friend. She was handling the estate of her Aunt and Uncle and found several items she gifted to me. Thank you!
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I felted today and here is one of them. I wanted to see if the cream colors would felt. I have had trouble getting the color to felt up so this time I used a much larger hook and I like the way it worked up.
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The body will be done in ivory but will I be able to leave it that way. I visualize it that way. Might add a dark ivory to lift up the stitches but just maybe. I also went up in hook size because the ivory and white tones don’t like to felt as easily as…
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I received a wonderful gift from a friend but almost like all mystery yarns need to make sure it felts. I made a swatch to ensure it does. I do this “old school” on the wash board. It will felt up but think I need to increase the hook size and felt it in my…
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This really changed colors after felted . It was bright and vibrant and now it is well still vibrant but in more muted color tones. what is so odd that the colors after felting I had in another type of thin yarns. It is not done yet but had to have a peek at its…