Two good friends kindly donated a selection of their woolly fleeces towards my embellishing adventure. They are both keen wet-felters and are far more used to judging quantities of fleece and quality of materials. I have been making samples and test-patches on my embellisher with my patches of felt, scarves and fabric along with this new, inherited stash.
The tweety-pie above is most unlike my usual attempts at crafti-ness. I'm not a cutesy, birdy type of person, at all really, BUT, I did enjoy doing it and I liked the simplicity of its shape and it's illustrativeness. It looks kind of hopeful!
This was a mixture of yellow-based fleeces, craft felt, soya fibres and yarn. I liked the technique but am not keen on the colourway - at all.
I put this one together using layers of fleece together, slashing them apart and then re-felting them. I like the slightly more graphic effect this gives than the shadowy, shaded effect with fleeces layered on top of one another. It took a long time for a small piece. I think I need to look up a few more techniques.
A chequerboard of machine-felt, the potential background for some text-based work I think. I liked the texture this got and the fuzziness on one side was also pretty appealing.
As my job starts tomorrow, I was able to have a little amazon treat - embellishing/stitching books have arrived. I just need to carve out the time to read them!
1 comments:
I love the stuff you have embellished. The colours and textures look fantastic.
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