tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46088209725617728622024-03-08T11:34:13.710+00:00Felt by ZedZedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-42805442804822989552019-03-30T23:20:00.000+00:002019-03-30T23:20:39.663+00:00Feb/March Review: Unusual EmbellishmentsI mentioned at the end of my look back at January, that February had been all about unusual embellishments. That carried on into March too, but I'll stick with the theme and show them altogether. Using unusual embellishments isn't really unusual for me, but I think I might have a bit of a surprise near the end :) It started in November when my friend had some shiny hair decorations/extensions that she was removing and throwing away, so I asked if I could 'scav' (scavenge) them out of the bin to try felting with. They originally come straight, but after being plaited/braided, end up wavy/kinked. I decided to try them with a wool blend which came in some Botany Lap Waste from World of Wool. It is really soft, greyish and has the odd bit of Angelina blended in. I couldn't see any in what I used though:<br />
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From this angle you can see better how they attached:<br />
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Thicker pieces of the fibre kept their shape and were more prominent, and where it was thinner/spread out, they blended in more:<br />
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The next time my friend used the extensions, she saved them for me when she removed them. They were really nice colours:<br />
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I blended up some Merino to match:<br />
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<span id="goog_502644770"></span><span id="goog_502644771"></span>I used the same wool blends twice, and I started by matching the fibres to the blends:<br />
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But used different coloured fibres on top at the other end (not great photos)<br />
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As soon as I started to wet it down it felt like there were far too many fibres on top. They kind of look/feel like trilobal nylon, but not quite as fine. It took a lot to get it felted, the fibres acted like a barrier between my hands and the wool, I had to rub mostly from the back. I even resorted to rolling the felt in a bamboo mat. This is how it looked when it was dry:<br />
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You can see how much of the fibre is loose:<br />
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I tugged off lots of loose fibre and this is how it looked afterwards:<br />
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It looked like I pulled it all off, but it was more obvious looking on an angle:<br />
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And I had to get a supermacro close up!<br />
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<br />I used the same hair extensions again. This is how the finished piece looked:<br />
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I twisted some of it around some wool twists I'd previously made, spun some with some white pencil roving, fluffed some up and made a kind of 'ball' out of it, blended some with Merino, and used a couple of pieces which were still partly plaited/braided. The two biggest patches on the bottom of this angled photo are, on the left, the loose ball, and in the centre, the blend with wool:<br />
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This is a closer angled pic:<br />
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This is one of the partly plaited pieces:<br />
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I undid the ends of this one, sorry, not the best photo:<br />
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This next pic is a small amount spun with pencil roving on a drop spindle. I just twisted it, then used it so it's loose:<br />
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I did my last experiment with unusual fibres a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately I didn't get lots of great photos, but this is what I tried out:<br />
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And this is one of the locks:<br />
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I used 23mic natural white Merino, and this is the finished sample:<br />
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This is a close up of the top left where I fluffed up the fibres:<br />
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And this is how the migration looked on the back:<br />
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This is one of the felted locks, it is attached at the base, and springs loose:<br />
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Sorry there aren't more/better photos, but did you guess what the fibre is? It's my friend's hair who gave me the extensions! I clippered it for her a couple of weeks ago and decided to see how it felted :)<br />
What's the most unusual fibre you've ever tried?Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-67367689066007159772019-02-27T21:21:00.000+00:002019-02-27T21:21:11.603+00:00January ReviewJanuary was all about vessels and Textured Felt. At the Well Being centre a few weeks ago, we made coiled pots. Somehow I managed to delete the photos of the process, but you can see it in<a href="https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2019/01/08/new-vessels/" target="_blank"> this blog post</a>. This is how it looked after I finished felting/fulling at home:<br /><br />
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You can see from the gap in the pencil roving where the edge of the circular resist was. There's a similar gap on the other side:<br /><br />
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Fulling the pot caused migration/fuzziness. It's dulled the silk threads quite a bit, so I'll probably shave it when it's fully dry.<br /><br />
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I was looking through <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01/" target="_blank">my flickr photostream</a> and came across some photos of Textured Felt I made ages ago. I wrote a <a href="https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2019/01/16/textured-felt/" target="_blank">blog post with some pics</a> on The Felting and Fiber Studio site. And like I say at the end of that post, I also wrote a quick guide on how to make it and <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/660924758/how-to-make-textured-felt-tutorial-e?ref=shop_home_active_2&crt=1" target="_blank">listed it on etsy</a>. It's an updated/expanded version of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01/albums/72157622328223545" target="_blank">the free tute on flickr</a>, but in a handy PDF. I was inspired by the Textured Felt pics to try the technique for making a vessel. <br />I used all natural wools, animal fibres and embellishments. For the texture scraps between layers, I used some unravelled wool knitting. I don't know if it's 100% wool. I did two 'regular' thickness layers on each side and two 'half layers', basically 3 layers but split one into 2 for even shrinkage. I didn't put texture between the two 'half' layers. This is the top with a hole cut and the resist taken out:<br /><br />
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This is what it looks like when I separate the layers to make it more 3D:<br /><br />
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This is how the bottom looks 'flat':<br /><br />
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And separated/3D:<br /><br />
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I put lots of locks around the edges:<br /><br />
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Here are some Bluefaced Leicester locks:<br /><br />
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I finished the vessel off on my bead board, fulling it to firm it up. It still isn't quite dry in these photos, it took quite a few days until it was. Here's a photo of it with the balloon still in it:<br /><br />
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I couldn't get really good photos of it, it was too bright near the window and the back was in lots of shadow, but here it is without the balloon:<br /><br />
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Here's the bottom:<br /><br />
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Here are a couple of photos of the side of it.<br /><br />
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Fulling the vessel meant that some of the looser locks felted in more, there was also more fuzziness/migration like on the coiled vessel:<br /><br />
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I put the vessel around a lightbulb, I like how this one looks<br /><br />
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So far, February has been all about trying unusual embellishments, so I'll be blogging about that next time!<br />Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-47426604750260979242019-01-05T23:10:00.000+00:002019-01-05T23:10:45.610+00:00Happy New Year!It's been pretty obvious to the two (three?!) of you who read my blog that I've had difficulty keeping up with it for quite a while now, like I mentioned in a <a href="http://feltbyzed.blogspot.com/2018/06/burning-out-doing-way-too-much.html" target="_blank">blog post in June</a>. I made <a href="https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2018/11/05/production-anxiety/" target="_blank">a similar post</a> on The Felting and Fiber Studio site in November, and if you read the comments, you'll see that I'm not alone! As I was stressing again this week about how much I've let slide, and worrying about how I'll even 'catch up', let alone stay on top of things, I thought I would start with a look back over the year like we do on the Studio site each year. But instead of making <a href="https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2018/12/31/year-end-review-and-giveaway-winner/" target="_blank">a couple of slide-shows of my work</a>, like I did there, I thought I would pick one project from each month of the past year to share. And this made me realise that if I find it so hard to blog weekly, why don't I blog monthly instead? Seems obvious when you think about it doesn't it!?! I didn't make anything in January, but over the holiday break I tidied up the supplies from the class I do at the Well-Being Centre and in late Jan/early Feb I made lots of batts from all the odds and ends and matted bits of wool tops from the bottoms of boxes:<br />
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In March I made a couple of vessels, I used texturey wools on this one and left it to dry without anything inside to shape it and I liked the way it came out:<br />
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Having a 'play day' at the well-being centre one day in April, I made this piece using tubes of wool made by wrapping wool wisps around a kebab stick:<br />
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In May, I made a nuno felted piece for a challenge on the Studio site. This is one of my favourite photos from while I was making it, I thought it looked like a cow's stomach/tripe!<br />
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This is what the finished piece looked like held over a lightbulb:<br />
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In June I made a felted painting for a friend. I'd shown him some photos of paintings I'd done and he liked a few in this style:<br />
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Originally, I'd planned to do a painting on canvas for him, but the technique I'd used didn't transfer to canvas very well, so instead I thought I'd see how well the idea worked in felt. I have to say, it's one of my favourite pieces I've ever made!<br />
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I kind of got hooked on making felt pieces inspired by paintings, I used this painting too for inspiration:<br />
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And this is the felt piece I made:<br />
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In July, I made a kind of seascape felt piece:<br />
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And then used it to make a notebook cover:<br />
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In August, I made a few collage pieces for greetings cards, this is one of them:<br />
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I did a bit of needlefelting in September, this is a piece I made using various wools dyed with natural dyes:<br />
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This is a piece I made in October for another Studio Challenge, I combined wool tubes and twists with nuno felting:<br />
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I made a purple and black piece embellished with lots of undyed fibres, in November:<br />
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One of the last things I made last year was a case for my best friend's birthday. I made it in one piece over a resist and used silk to line it, I added a button and stitching before I gave it to him, but here it is when it had dried:<br />
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I'm grateful for anybody who ever takes the time to read the blog posts and I hope to blog a bit more frequently this year. I hope you have a fibre filled 2019! Happy New Year :) Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-38490392554494934102018-07-22T22:39:00.001+01:002018-07-22T22:39:45.786+01:00Felt BookcoversI've made a few new felt book covers, recently. First, I made a large seascape in felt:<br />
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<br />Then I made it into an A5 bookcover. This is the front:<br />
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And the back:<br />
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I had a look through my already made felt pieces and found one from a Felting and Fiber Studio challenge which I thought would make a nice A6 cover, so I cut that out:<br />
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There's quite a lot of viscose on the orangey yellow part so it has a nice sheen. This is the front:<br />
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Not quite so obvious in the photos is the texture near the bottom with silk noil and some cotton fibres. I think I used some dyed cotton nepps too. This is the back:<br />
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I'd been making this next notebook cover since January! I had a big clear up and tidied my offcuts, which led to planning the cover. I then sewed some of it in March, and finally finished it last week. Either can be the front or back, so this is side 1:<br />
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And side 2:<br />
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I used some hand dyed muslin for a backing/lining:<br />
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This is how it looks with the front and back opened out:<br />
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I still have my offcuts out and plan to make some collage shoulder bags, next.Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-9717732448166711202018-07-13T21:30:00.000+01:002018-07-13T21:30:57.481+01:00Experimental Nuno VesselOver on the <a href="https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/" target="_blank">Felting and Fiber Studio</a> site, we have <a href="https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/category/challenges/" target="_blank">Quarterly Challenges</a>. The <a href="https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2018/04/01/second-quarter-challenge-nuno-felt-surface-design/" target="_blank">2nd Quarter Challenge</a> for this year was to use fabric as a surface design, and try a technique that you hadn't tried before. Ann made a point of saying I wasn't allowed to make a sample (I do that a lot?!), so I didn't, but it was more of a 'prototype' :) I wanted to combine using 'extreme nuno' that I'd been playing around with a lot, and vessels, so Ann's challenge gave me the push to try it.<br />
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I cut out a template, sort of bowl shaped, but not for any reason, I
just wanted something big and not square. Then I started adding strips
of white fabrics to it: synthetic chiffon, muslin, scrim and cotton
gauze. I then added fine layers of Rambouillet. This photo shows it wet down and it's just started to felt:<br />
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Once the resist started to curl and I knew it was properly felted, I started to full it on bubble-wrap. It really puffed up!<br />
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I removed the resist and carried on fulling, I turned it the right side
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I tested to see if it was fulled enough by inflating a balloon inside, then carried on fulling until I was happy with it. This isn’t the best photo, but you can see the shrinkage, compare it to the first photo - it started out the full height of the netting:<br />
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I rinsed it and left on a balloon to shape and dry. This is how it looked finished:<br />
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This is another side:<br />
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This is some nice ruffley chiffon on the bottom, between some Cotton Gauze and cotton scrim:<br />
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And, since the thought behind the idea was that it’d make an interesting lampshade, here it is on a lightbulb:<br />
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Close Up:<br />
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And a different angle:<br />
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Even though it's just a prototype, I have used it on my little bedroom torch while I've been listening to music before going to sleep!Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-13336502358047104682018-06-15T22:00:00.001+01:002018-06-15T22:00:39.067+01:00"Burning Out Doing Way Too Much"<h4>
... But Having Nothing To Show For It.</h4>
<br />I planned so many things for the blog this year, but abandoning it for 6 months was never meant to be one of them. I love making felt, but sometimes having to take into consideration whether what you make will sell or not and whether or not making it might be a 'waste of time' that could have been spent more 'productively' takes a lot of the fun out of it. And adds a ridiculous amount of anxiety. Which is really pointless considering very little of what I actually do make to sell ever gets sold.<br />Which then makes me think I should be spending more time doing things which are a bit more succesful in selling, like tutorials and e-books, but every time I start, I soon get overwhelmed by how massively I've underestimated the work involved. Which sucks the life out of me and any bit of enjoyment I was having :(<br />
<br />And often the pressure of having to produce something to blog about and then finding the time and energy to do it, can feel like a huge task, and never knowing if anyone's even ever going to read it or if I did it all for the benefit of that bot or the spammer who earns thousands of pounds working from home, can often make it feel like a pointless as well as huge task.<br />
<br />I'm sure I'm not the only person who's ever felt like this, and I won't be the last! And sometimes when I least expect it, I'll do something which reminds me why and how much I love making felt. Like a couple of weeks ago, making notes for nuno samples of different thicknesses and asking myself questions for things to look out for, like shrinkage comparisons, and being pleased with myself for accurately predicting outcomes. Or like this week, making a piece of felt just for fun to give to a friend, and really enjoying the whole process.<br />
<br />So, if anyone does still read this blog, apologies for being slack. And if you have any advice, or your own tales of getting bogged down by obligations spoling the fun, feel free to share and have a moan! And, so this isn't just a boring wall of text, here's a few photos of the piece I made this week :)<br />
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Merino, with mostly dyed Nylon fibre, silk throwster's waste and various cellulose fibres.<br />
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Felted:<br />
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My favourite part:<br />
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Thanks for reading :) Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-73646046359459933682017-12-28T10:00:00.000+00:002017-12-28T10:46:50.935+00:00Scarves Part TwoDo you remember <a href="https://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/nuno-felt-scarf-samples.html" target="_blank">the scarf samples I posted about in October</a>? One of them was an irregular shape with lots of different pieces and sizes of cotton scrim for a base, I wanted to make a full sized scarf based on that idea. I didn't want to make the overall shape of the scarf quite as irregular as the sample though, just more 'uneven'. I got out lots of pieces of hand dyed scrim in variegated shades of blues, greens and greys, and ironed them-apparently those big plastic craft tables bend from heat more easily than I thought! I laid the pieces out on the template, and overlapped them in places for a bit more texture. Then I chose some 18.5 mic Merino in similar colours and matched the wool layout to the scrim.<br />
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It was interesting to just follow the colours of the scrim instead of planning the colour layout, it was a lot more random:<br />
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I really like the scrim side, it is so texturey and reminds me of lots of different landscapes:<br />
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This next one is a grey marl Merino on hand dyed cotton gauze. I blended up 4 shades of 18.5 mic Merino, 2 greys, a duck egg and black. It wasn't very easy to get photos, they kept turning out blue!:<br />
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Those were the last of the scarves, but I did make a few samples to test out some other fabrics. I used some scraps of stranded scarves with a couple of offcuts and some 18.5 mic Merino:<br />
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I laid the wool out very finely, cobweb thin really:<br />
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The fabric offcut rippled into a nice texture:<br />
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I used just two fabrics for this one, strips from a green viscose scarf and strips from a very pale green/beige/ blue charity shop dress which I was convinced was silk until I did a burn test, very realistic imitation!<br />
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I laid the 18.5 mic Merino wool tops thicker on this piece, though they were still quite fine. I also didn't go right upto the edges of the fabric:<br />
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The ripple textures were interesting, the viscose seemed to ripple more vertically, and the imitation silk more horizontally:<br />
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This sample is a fabric which might look familiar as I bought 3 scarves with the same design in different colours. I think this is the first time I tried it with 18.5 mic Merino:<br />
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Well, that's it for this year! I hope you've all had a great year, and enjoyed reading the posts. And if you've got a bit of spare time over the holidays, don't forget I have lots of free tutorials which are all felt, fibre and fabric related: <a href="https://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/p/free-tutorials.html" target="_blank">https://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/p/free-tutorials.html</a>Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-49996274244738057522017-12-26T13:29:00.000+00:002017-12-26T13:29:34.505+00:00Scarves Part OneI've been into making scarves lately, though I probably carded more wool and ironed more scrim and gauze than I used for making scarves, but I have finished quite a few. This is a white one I made a few weeks ago:<br />
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<br />I used 18.5 mic Merino, and Rose fibre for embellishing:<br />
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I cut the scarf wider than my template, and scrunch gathered it to size before adding the wool, so it'd have some texture on the back:<br />
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I also made a short, wide scarf/wrap similar to the white scarf, using natural cotton scrim and 18.5 mic Merino:<br />
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It's about 3 times as wide as the scarf, and I didn't scrunch the scrim first:<br />
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I used 3 different cellulose fibres for embellishing this: Viscose, Rose and Tencel, this is the Viscose:<br />
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Another scarf I made recently is this bright, colourful one. I always prefer the side where the wispy ends of the wool tops overlap (or underlap since they're laid first) the next colour:<br />
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This is the other side where the colours are in blocks:<br />
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An 'arty' shot to shop how soft it is :)<br />
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I think the multi one is the only scarf I made recently which isn't nuno-felt. This next one was made with 18.5 mic Merino and hand dyed cotton scrim. I embellished this with hand dyed bamboo top:<br />
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I cut a strip of subtley variegated lemon/yellow scrim to size, then cut the strip into roughly even pieces and re-arranged them before adding the Merino on top:<br />
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I've got a few more scarves to show, so check back before the end of the year to see part two :) <br />
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<br />Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-6416043019145427862017-10-11T14:26:00.000+01:002017-10-11T14:26:55.440+01:00Nuno Felt Scarf SamplesWe're making scarves at the well-being centre. To practise, we're using strips of scrim and some fine 18.5 mic Merino. I made some scarf samples with the scrim and wool. These are the ones I made:<br />
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The top one has a fine, narrow strip of wool all the way around; some random narrow strips and a few 'blobs' of blue:<br />
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The second one down has a simple grid pattern made from fine, narrow strips:<br />
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The middle piece has two fine layers (1 horizontal, 1 vertical) of wool tops:<br />
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The fourth one down had resist strips placed along the scrim, then two fine layers of wool, and embellished with some very shiny cellulose fibre I got in a bag of Botany lap waste-it's different to any others I've got, so from what World of Wool sold at the time, and the fact it is most like viscose, I'm guessing it is Tencel:<br />
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The bottom piece has a fine, narrow strip of wool all around and through the centre, and has wool in the same position on the back of the piece. It's the only one which does. I also fulled the middle more than the outside, so the edges waved:<br />
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The last orange one at the side has flowers in the middle made from the same 18.5 mic Merino, and leaves at each corner, it also has leaves on the back at each corner:<br />
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And for something a bit different, I made a demo scarf using dyed, irregular pieces of scrim as a base This is the scrim side:<br />
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And the wool side, also using 18.5 mic Merino, and embellished with viscose:<br />
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If you're interested in learning more about Nuno Felting and why how, and where you position your wool affects the outcome, so you can get the results you want, have a look at the info page for my e-book, <a href="http://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/p/e-books.html" target="_blank">Beyond Nuno</a>: <a href="http://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/p/e-books.html">http://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/p/e-books.html</a><br />
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<br />Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-28699490346092790202017-09-12T15:18:00.000+01:002017-09-12T15:18:23.868+01:00Testing the Limits of FibresI was tidying away some felt recently and remembered that I'd planned to make some felt pieces like the<a href="https://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/more-textured-felt.html" target="_blank"> textured nuno pieces</a> I made, but with different fibres instead of fabric. I've tried 'piling on' embellishment fibres in the hope of getting a fluffy effect or loosely attached/3D look a few times, but apart from a really slippy/slinky feeling acrylic fibre, and some weird fibre/wool combos (Suffolk wool and banana fibre springs to mind) they've all just stayed put and attached well. Since I mostly use Merino for 'everyday' pieces, I wanted to see how a couple of layers of different fibres attached, and also what effect I'd get from some hard fulling.<br />
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I laid out a couple of pieces the same way, but different sizes. I laid out two layers of dyed viscose fibre, then 4 fine layers of 23 mic Merino. I felted and fulled the first piece, then got my bead board out to full it more. I fulled until it was quite firm, but not stiff/rigid:<br />
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I got the texture I expected:<br />
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I didn't expect so much migration, probably because the soft/fine pieces I've fulled really hard with fibres before were using white 18.5mic Merino, and I used less fibre, I thought it'd be less obvious this time:<br />
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I changed my plans when I got to the felted stage of the first piece, it looked and felt so nice. So, I decided I would just felt the next piece 'normally'. Even if I hadn't already decided that, I don't think I could have 'ruined' this piece by fulling it lots:<br />
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The colours and the sheen are just gorgeous, so is the softness and drap, even though it's only a small sample:<br />
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<br />Those ridges/crinkles are because I squeezed it in a towel, then hung on the line to dry! If you look at the blue parts you might see a crease along the edge too, it's such a light piece, the pegs weighed it down and bent it. Here's a close up:<br />
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You can see the differences in sheen and texture when the pieces are next to each other:<br />
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This is the soft piece on the template I used, it started out just a bit bigger than the small box it's on top of:<br />
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<br />And the small piece started out the size of the largest outline on the template:<br />
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And yep, those are the same template!<br />
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I made a few more fibre samples. I thought I'd use the same template for all of them to do comparisons. In the end, I only did a 'normal' sample and a 'fulled hard' sample of Trilobal Nylon for a direct comparison. Though thinking about it, for a 'proper' comparison, I should really have used the same colours! Each sample has two layers of the fibre, and 4 thin layers of 23 mic Merino. This is the Trilobal Nylon sample which I felted and fulled in the way I usually do:<br />
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Here's a close up of the ripples/texture:<br />
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This is the Trilobal nylon sample I made and fulled hard:<br />
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The texture was interesting, especially where I used different colours for each fibre layer:<br />
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This next one is Soy top which I dyed, the tops all look nice, shiny, metallic shades, but for some reason, they now look a bit like wet tissue. Maybe two layers dulls the sheen?<br />
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The silver end looked quite nice:<br />
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My favourite piece out of these was the Nylon Staple sample. It had a really nice, thick texture:<br />
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You can see it a bit more on an angle:<br />
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At first I was a bit disappointed with all the migration, because it covered some areas:<br />
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But, then I noticed there was something quite regular, almost geometric about the migration:<br />
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It can always be disguised by using a matching colour, or made a feature of by using a complementary colour. Here is a photo of the nylon and soy pieces next to each other:<br />
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And, for reference, the bigger Trilobal Nylon sample on the template I used:<br />
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<br />So, you can see, you don't need to cautiously anchor down a few strands of fibre with wisps of wool! I used quite a lot of fibre on each sample. The nylon staple is one which intrigues me the most because I love texture and it has me thinking of ways to use it, but the Viscose top is gorgeous, so vibrant and shiny!<br />
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If you're curious about using embellishment fibres in wet felting, but don't know where to start, have a look at the info page for my e-book, The Right Fibre: https://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-right-fibre.htmlZedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-52927818043952822852017-08-23T19:25:00.001+01:002017-08-23T19:25:29.489+01:00Surface Design ElementsWe've been playing around with surface design elements and techniques recently at the well-being centre, things for adding texture and depth to felted landscape pictures. We're working up to doing some detailed pieces which we'll add hand stitching and free motion embroidery to. We started off doing really simple landscape pictures, using nothing much more than textured wool rovings and a few embellishments:<br />
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Hollow tubes of wool, which I can't help calling 'wool kebabs', because they're made by wrapping wool wisps around a bamboo kebab skewer, have lots of potential for creating texture and interest not just for felted landscapes, but on any felt piece. These are a collection I have from using the skewer to clean by hand carders:<br />
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I made some felt samples to show the tubes being used simply, so they can inspire ideas rather than influence how they're used. I made lots of different black/white/grey tubes/kebabs. For this first sample I used black Merino and a blend I got from a Botany Lap waste bag. The shiny fibre looks like bamboo or viscose. I just used 5 pieces on this:<br />
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For this next sample, I covered the whole piece with the wool tubes, these were mostly quite 'hairy' rather than smooth because I used some coarser blends. The neat rectangle really changed shape with the areas of different shrinkage according to how thick/thin it was in places:<br />
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I think the blend I used for these had a few brownish shades of wool in. These were quite texturey too. I don't know which wool I used for a base. I think that was from a Botany Lap bag too. I think this is my favourite:<br />
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I bought some stripey wool from wollknoll a couple of years ago, and thought this would make some nice wool kebabs. I used them on Black Merino, and they turned out really nice too:<br />
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I took a pile of the wool tubes to the well-being centre for a play around and thought I'd see how laying them in 2 different directions worked out. I put the middle lot of tubes on first, then the diagonal ones at the top, then filled in the gaps at the sides with a couple more on each end. We were talking about the bag of dyed embellishments I'd taken in and I pulled out some cotton and fluffed it up, and noticing some gaps on my layout, thought I'd add it to show how it felted. It looks like a kind of futuristic landscape, in a non gloomy or dystopian kind of way:<br />
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I thought I'd try making a felt piece with the tubes kind of crammed on, instead of laying them out neatly next to each other, because they tend to move a bit and leave gaps. I didn't over do it, just added two or 3 more than if I'd positioned them. I also wanted to see what the tubes looked like if they were stretched, so I pulled some from each end until they were the right size to fit accross the layout:<br />
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One surface design technique I've always liked to play around with is <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=33138187%40N06&view_all=1&text=twists" target="_blank">wool twists</a>, so simple, but so versatile and effective. I used quite a lot of the tops from my weird grey/black and white botany lap waste bag for the twists used on this first one, plus a few blends of my own:<br />
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I like how it looks on an angle:<br />
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I thought it'd be nice to show twists used simply because not everyone wants to make something which looks 'real', I cut the twists in half, and then made some little woolly balls to go in the gaps:<br />
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It has a kind of swaying seaweedy feel to it:<br />
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<br />I think the wool twists are self explanatory, but I thought I'd make a short video showing how to use the kebab skewer to custom make the wool tubes, and at the end is using the skewer to get the trapped fibres out of hand carders which is where the idea originally came from:<br />
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<br />Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-17655681116610666992017-08-02T20:40:00.000+01:002017-08-02T20:40:32.678+01:00Project UpdatesI promised photos of the blue/green bag I was in the process of making, though it really doesn't look too much different to the separate panels :) This is the front, or more blue side:<br />
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This is the more green side:<br />
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I also made a smaller bag with some of the green pieces. Side 1:<br />
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Side 2:<br />
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I've only got as far as making the last of my nuno strip pieces into panels for a bag. It was this yellow piece:<br />
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I used various types of fabric–cotton, viscose, silk, suspected silk, so got various textures:<br />
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I liked these two strips next to each other, they showed the very different way felting/shrinkage affected them:<br />
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I used some of the spare offcuts from the orange piece to make up the panels:<br />
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I showed some half finished purses not so long ago. I finally finished all the blanket stitching and buttons/buttonholes:<br />
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I also had some others I was at various stages with, and finished those too:<br />
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It's nice to have a growing pile of finished projects instead of a growing pile of felt pieces waiting for the inspiration (and energy!) to make them in to something!<br />
<br />Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-62008174385866132572017-06-27T15:17:00.000+01:002017-06-27T15:17:10.922+01:00Blues and GreensThese are the blue and green nuno pieces I made using fabric strips a few weeks ago. I tried to include a wide range of colours as well as various fabrics. This one was a mix of blue, purple, green and turquoise:<br />
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The two viscose pieces either side of this silk chiffon have great ripples, the chiffon just sunk in. It's one of my favourite fabrics, from a dress I got at a charity shop and didn't realise was silk until I used it and saw how it sunk in, and went back to search for the label.<br />
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I've noticed that some fabrics attach better if they are in the middle or aren't too close to the edge. I'll try a sample with just this thick blue scarf piece at the end, and see if it attaches better not so close to the edge.<br />
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All the fabrics I used on this piece were silk or strongly suspected of being silk:<br />
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It looks much better close up, and on an angle – the lighter pieces seem to reflect light a lot:<br />
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You can see the textures better too:<br />
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I think I made the strips a bit too long on the green piece, a few of these didn't attach well along the edge, even though the rest of the pieces did. I usually try to make sure I work on edges, so I don't know why it happens sometimes:<br />
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Slightly closer:<br />
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I did think I'd probably make one mostly blue bag and one mostly green, but once the strips were cut up and moved around to see which others they looked best with, it didn't work out like that! Also, being conscious of how bags wear more on the back, picking pieces to work best there also influenced the final outcome. These are the two panels I made for my next bag:<br />
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I have to remember to take photos of it sewn up for next time!Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-59905766931876893232017-06-15T13:56:00.000+01:002017-06-15T13:56:08.186+01:00More Nuno, More SewingOne thing I realised when I was making the bag I showed last time is that I was running out of offcuts. So decided to make some more. I suppose technically they're not offcuts if I make them with the intention of cutting into strips, but you know what I mean :) I made a few different coloured nuno felt pieces:<br />
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<br />I loved the variety of textures I got from using different fabrics on the orange piece:<br />
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The red piece was made with all silk pieces:<br />
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<br />This is a corner of the red piece with sunlight on it:<br />
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Before I got too attached to the pieces, I cut them all up into strips:<br />
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I made a mistake with some of them, because some pieces weren't very wide. I should have left them 'whole' instead of cutting the strip in half like I did the others. I started with the red and orange strips, and matched up some pieces, it turned out some of the purple strips worked well to so I used some of them. I made them into a passport style shoulder bag. I made this side as the front:<br />
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I made the back to match, but different enough that it can be reversed for a different look:<br />
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It's not very easy to see, but I finished the bottom of the strap off with some wooden beads.Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-11635398813071084182017-05-28T19:39:00.000+01:002017-05-28T19:39:39.555+01:00Latest Sewing ProjectsI got some new tubs to organise my felt off-cuts and project pieces recently, and while I was sorting them out, I put a few strips to one side to make a new camera bag. I've been using my current one for about 18 months, it was kind of a prototype to see how it would hold up to being used, and happily, it's still in one piece, but some of the felt pieces I used were too soft where the bags rubs against my hip. I used all nuno pieces for this one. This is the front:<br />
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If I feel like a change, I can flip the bag around:<br />
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While I had the sewing machine out, I thought I'd make a coin pouch with one of my bigger offcuts, I try to be more careful when cutting out these days, to keep pieces as big as possible intact:<br />
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Luckily, I never did get around to putting the sewing machine away, so when I finally finished blanket stitching the tops of some coin purse pockets that I cut out a few weeks ago, I could sew those up too. Here are some pink ones:<br />
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This is what they look like closed:<br />
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The next step is to round off the corners of the front flaps, then stitch all around with blanket stitch. I think choosing the right thread for the blanket stitch can take as long as the stitching sometimes! I had to make a make-shift table out of a cardboard box to put all the things waiting to be stitched, that stack of boxes on the right is about 9 of the thread drawers I have:<br />
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At the beginning of last year I made a nuno sample piece with some strips from a viscose scarf and a linen scarf. I thought it would make a nice pencil pouch. I made myself one a few years ago and use it almost every day. The idea is to use an extra long cord to wrap around to close it instead of a zip or other fastener. This is what it looks like closed:<br />
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This is the back when it's opened:<br />
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And, inside, I lined it with some nice fabric I got a few years ago:<br />
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And, while the machine is <i>still</i> out, I may as well ... root through all those offcuts I tidied away. This is a bookcover I've been working on, the front, inside front sleeve, and the back is finished. Here, I'm planning the layout for the inside back sleeve. I thought I'd make enough for a future one while I was at it, so made it extra long:<br />
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<br />Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-3100612250674568862017-04-28T11:38:00.001+01:002017-04-28T11:38:38.210+01:00Fauvism ChallengeOver on <a href="https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/" target="_blank">The Felting and Fiber Studio</a> we have <a href="https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2016/12/31/2017-quarterly-challenges/" target="_blank">Quarterly Challenges</a>. The First Quarter Challenge was from Ruth, it was a <a href="https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2017/03/29/fauvist-felt-from-the-forum/" target="_blank">Fauvism Challenge</a>. I was late getting mine done, and if you want to see some of the other brilliant entries, you can do <a href="https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2017/03/29/fauvist-felt-from-the-forum/" target="_blank">here</a>. I kept changing my mind about what I wanted to do, I thought I had finally made my mind up, but then looked at other entries and remembered a felt picture I made from a photo my sister took. You might remember it: <a href="http://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/felt-picture.html">http://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/felt-picture.html</a><br />
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I took the original photo (without permission!) and altered the colours in Photoshop:<br />
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I'd had in my head that Fauvism was really bright, but the more I looked, the more I saw muted colours, unsaturated shades. There's one particular jade green that I started to see everywhere! I simplified the picture to get the colour bands:<br />
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And added some 'accented edges':<br />
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Then I blended the last one and first one together:<br />
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A lot of the Fauvist paintings had roughly blended brush strokes and patchy areas so I blended some colours for each band to try to get that effect:<br />
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I don't know which photo shows it better:<br />
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Then I added embellishment fibres for more effect, this is some Kapok on the pink, there's a bit of silk on the blue, trilobal nylon on the orange, and nylon staple on the blue:<br />
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I don't know why I did that second band blue, I can see it's green on the photo, I clearly wrote 'green' on my template, and somehow chose blue! Maybe I tilted my laptop screen back too far (good excuse!) I did realise before felting and changed it:<br />
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The other embellishments and fibres I added are: some dark blue wool and light blue nylon for trees at the top; some green wool and red nylon for trees between the top orange row and blue one underneath it; green and yellow viscose staple on the green layer and some dark blue nylon for a hedge. The track lines are wool; I used viscose and nylon on the lower orangey band, and the blue/purple band at the bottom has dyed cotton nepps and nylon staple fibre added. This angle might show them a bit better:<br />
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I was quite disapointed when I looked at it, still wet, pegged on the washing line to dry, it looked so dull and flat:<br />
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It looked a lot better when it was dry, but I put lots of detail in the original one, so it still looks dull in comparison. If I ever get brave enough, I'll try some free motion stitching on it!<br />
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<br />Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-17714209636018135692017-03-30T14:41:00.000+01:002017-03-30T14:41:15.296+01:00Soft Wispy Felt TutorialIt has taken about 5 times as long as I thought it would, but I have finally finished my 'Learn to Make: Soft Wispy Felt Tutorial'.<br />
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I'm sure most of you have seen my pieces of soft, scruffy, felt piled with embellishment fibres:<br />
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And also the weird sculptural things I like to make out of them:<br />
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They're so enjoyable to make and so bright and 'happy' to look at. They were designed for a well-being class, with the intention that it’s virtually impossible to get a bad result. They're multi-layered, built up of fine layers of Merino and novelty yarns, to produce soft, fine, wispy, cobwebby felt that is pleasantly ‘scruffy’, ‘tassley’ and heavily decorated, so that even if they're wonky, threadbare, thick or holey in places, every one will still be a beautiful decorative piece.<br />
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There is lots of info in the tutorial with advice about supplies and equipment, though bubblewrap and margarine tubs is pushing it a bit to be called 'equipment'! :) I think the most expensive thing I use is the Olive Oil soap! Each piece only uses about 15g of wool, about 3 or 4 metres/yards of novelty yarns and a small handful of fibres, so it's great for a beginner's piece, especially for someone who has a generous friend to donate supplies to get them <strike>addicted to</strike> interested in wet felting! And there is also info on how to turn your flat piece into something even weirder for your friends to ponder 'but what is it <i>for</i>?' All the info is on the <a href="https://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/p/soft-wispy-felt.html" target="_blank">Information page</a>, it's available as an 'instant download' (once you've received an email... can't make it <i>too</i> instant or Europeans will get stuck with an extra chunk of VAT!)Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-67344776984373826382017-03-01T13:52:00.002+00:002017-03-01T13:52:42.504+00:00Bright Nuno FeltSome slightly more 'conventional' nuno felt this week. Well, conventional to me anyway :) I made a piece similar to this first one a while ago and it was really popular and I thought I could improve on it a bit, so I thought I'd make another one:<br />
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I'm thinking that next time I make something which is 'double sided', I'm going to flip the layout over when I've finished the first layer, because the top always looks better than the underneath. It looks alright, but was definitely better on the side I worked on:<br />
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I love the shiny ripples of silk nuno:<br />
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I used a strip torn from a viscose scarf on another piece I made:<br />
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I think you can see the ripples a bit better on an angle:<br />
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The ripples were so uniform and neat, I couldn't decide which close up to use, so I'm posting 3 :)<br />
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Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-21919060736362632312017-02-26T12:36:00.001+00:002017-02-26T12:36:31.284+00:00More Textured FeltOne thing I didn't like about the burgundy textured nuno felt piece I showed last time, was the effect of the wool migration. Completely unavoidable obviously, but I thought I'd try white fabrics with white wool to mimimise the visual impact of the migration. I started with a small sample, I used various cotton fabrics, like gauze, scrim and muslin; some silk crepe, and some synthetic chiffon:<br />
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Looking at it on an angle, you can see even more texture:<br />
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This is some folded cotton gauze:<br />
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This is one of the pieces of silk crepe:<br />
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I liked all the textures, but the synthetic chiffon really ruffled up:<br />
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The ruffles it created could be used to recreate effects for lots of different projects, here's a close up:<br />
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I used most of the same fabrics on a larger piece:<br />
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Here's a close up off the left side:<br />
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And a close up of the right side:<br />
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I thought this was the kind of technique which would work really well with synthetic organza, it comes in different weights and finishes, so even though it has similarities, there are differences too. I used dyed Merino for this:<br />
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Looking at an angle shows the many different textures:<br />
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This was a soft yellow organza, it 'folded' in columns:<br />
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You can see these organzas had a more crumpled texture. You can see the migration too, and though it affected the look of the finished piece and 'changed' the colours of the organza pieces, it was more subtle than with the large piece I made last time:<br />
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<br />Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-74681186315074702072017-02-05T15:13:00.001+00:002017-02-05T15:13:34.144+00:00Textured Nuno FeltThis first piece uses a variety of fabric strips, roughly the same size. I laid out the fabric strips first, then added 4 very fine layers of Merino, which probably added up to being finer than 1 'standard' layer of Merino (the average amount that gets pulled off from standard commercial wool tops, laid out you can't see through it), and not as even. This is the whole piece after felting:<br />
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This is the back, you can see that in some places there is hardly any wool at all:<br />
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I really liked the texture that was created on the crepey silk fabric strip at the top:<br />
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I liked the results of that piece, so I made a much larger one. The finished fulled piece was probably a quarter of the size it was when it was felted, I fulled it on bubblewrap first then on my bead board:<br />
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I tried fabric pieces I'd used before, both which I knew felted well, and some which I knew didn't attach well or stayed loose on the edges (a lot of synthetics tend to roll at the edges when torn). I also used pieces I hadn't tried before. I'm not completely sure what some of them are after felting! This is a closer look at the left side, on an angle:<br />
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And the right side:<br />
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I think this was a piece from a charity shop dress, it was really softly rippled and pillowy:<br />
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This is a scarf from a charity shop scarf I love using. You've seen it lots of times, it was goldeny pink open weave, some parts were doubled and some had starnds of golden fibre loose between the layers:<br />
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This is one of the synthetics which rolls on the edges (I probaly should have put it in the middle). The outside edge is very loose, but the inside edge was firmly attached:<br />
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Looking along the surface, you can see better how high some of the ruffles are:<br />
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That photo also shows how much migration there was. It's more apparent depending on the angle you look at it. This shows really clearly just how much there was:<br />
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Looking slightly higher you can see more texture on the fabric:<br />
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Overall, I liked the piece, especially the texture, though I did think using just one colour of wool along with the migration dulled it quite a lot, and looking at it on an angle, it does look like it's been under a dusty bed for a few years! Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-11287144070047067342017-01-20T12:55:00.000+00:002017-01-20T12:55:32.748+00:00Orange!After a few attempts, I managed to get a photograph of an orange piece I'd planned to blog about last week:<br />
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I made the piece to sew into a purse/wallet for my friend, but I was concerned some of the fabric wasn't attached as well as I'd like for something which would get lots of handling, so I made another piece:<br />
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I even managed to get a closer pic of this one too:<br />
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And this is some of the synthetic embellishments I used:<br />
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Inbetween the two large pieces, I made a medium sized piece with the same colour theme, I used less fabric on this piece and more embellishent fibres, especially silk throwster's waste and silk hankies:<br />
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Of course, today is the first bright, sunny day for ages, and I could probably get much better photos now!Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-91815748350637456872017-01-04T11:48:00.000+00:002017-01-04T11:48:57.770+00:00Dyeing SilkSince the house was tidy for Christmas I used the opportunity to do some dyeing. I mostly did fibres, but I also wanted to dye some silk. I have lots of patterned silk scarves, but wanted some more 'plain'. This first pieces is some silk my friend Karen sent me from Australia years ago. It's labelled 'tissue silk', is similar to silk chiffon, but different more like crepe. I dipped it in darker blue first, then lighter blues at the other end.<br />
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These pieces are silk habotai. The photo doesn't do them justice, they have such a gorgeous shine. I'm kicking myself I didn't buy lots of silk from wollknoll when the exchange rate was in our favour!<br />
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These are some pieces of silk chiffon, there's less colour variation in these than in the tissue silk and habotai pieces. They came out really nice though:<br />
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These strips are from a piece of silk I got in a charity shop, it was a green to white blended piece, so I tore it where the green was palest, and dyed strips from those parts with blues and greens, and the whitest part burgundy with some purple shades.<br />
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I also overdyed some printed silk I had. I can't find any photos of it here, but I used it on a couple of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01/23501551794/" target="_blank">notebook covers</a>. It was nice in an unusual kind of way, but not so nice I didn't mind completely changing it! This first piece was overdyed with blues and greens, it doesn't look massively different, but it toned down the yellows:<br />
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And this isn't the best photo, but the over-dyeing turned out better than I expected using oranges and reds over greens/blues:<br />
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And here's a rolled up batt I made from multi scraps a while ago:<br />
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If you're looking to treat yourself after Christmas, I have a few e-books and tutorials you might be interested in. <a href="https://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/p/e-books.html" target="_blank">Beyond Nuno</a> is a guide to using fabrics in wet felting, it's not a project book, but more of a 'how and why' book so you can get the outcome you want when nuno felting. If you adore embellishmnet fibres but shy away from buying them because you're not sure how to use them, whether they're versatile or worth the money, which ones might suit you better etc, then <a href="https://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-right-fibre.html" target="_blank">The Right Fibre</a> can help you out there. I can't guarantee you won't just buy all the fibres still :) but at least you'll have back up visual evidence as to why you need all the fibres! And if there's any space left which isn't covered in wool, fabric or fibres for felting, you might be able to squeeze in a new hobby and make yourself a few polymer clay buttons to go on your felt creations or maybe even a diz for making roving, in which case you might like <a href="https://feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/p/polymer-clay_12.html" target="_blank">Polymer Clay, Simply Made</a>, a guide to making really nice, even polymer clay pieces with loads of tips for using everyday items instead of expensive equipment (I can't be held responsible for any missing eyeshadow!). Happy New Year!Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-42375571898107516732016-11-25T13:49:00.000+00:002016-11-25T13:49:00.246+00:00SamplingOn my last post I showed a nuno felt piece I'd made using various wool tops I got in a recent bag of Botany Lap Waste from World of Wool. It became obvious that not all were Merino or even 100% wool, so I thought I'd try some samples. The first one is the kind of Royal Blue from <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWLIrKzfvyosCZ6TF6EI9w5t9Ko6JhvWBg5U32EFLI44qgioQhGUkvqKqS2B_b5RzryvshpUkzofaZhVidN2OUw2TXBewZE-xREGRYkJC0ykq1ri3dYrxtljS29mM30_4ojf7QTupcM8r/s1600/back+of+nuno.JPG" target="_blank">the back of the nuno piece</a>. I'd had a feeling at the time it might not be Merino, but it's surprising how different various tops can feel and even look when you use lots of different ones together, even when they're all 23 mic Merino. I know sometimes it's because they're old and a bit dry, but I think it has something to do with the dyes too:<br />
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The staple length was really long, and it wasn't exactly coarse, but wasn't as soft as Merino, so I'm guessing it's Corriedale. This is on an angle:<br />
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Some other tops I got were obviously not Merino or Corriedale. I'm going to guess at Shetland, because WoW don't do many different breeds of dyed tops, and because it looks similar to some green Shetland I got:<br />
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It looks different on a different background:<br />
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You can see on the close up it's coarser and hairier than the previous one:<br />
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I don't think I used this next one on my nuno piece either, but it was very similar to the turquoise I used on the back. It was obvious straight away that this was never going to felt:<br />
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It's just two very loosely holding together layers, holding together more by tangling of a few fibres rather than felting, I think, slight angle:<br />
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It's not even pretending to hold together at one end, where it started to 'drip' when I held it up wet:<br />
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And this is what it looks like at the window:<br />
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This was the turquiose sample. It was the lighter blue stripes on <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWLIrKzfvyosCZ6TF6EI9w5t9Ko6JhvWBg5U32EFLI44qgioQhGUkvqKqS2B_b5RzryvshpUkzofaZhVidN2OUw2TXBewZE-xREGRYkJC0ykq1ri3dYrxtljS29mM30_4ojf7QTupcM8r/s1600/back+of+nuno.JPG" target="_blank">the back of the large piece</a>, and I used it <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvgN5CkHjuRFqiWITfdaBx0N-1UMt0y-OdCLlHMfP6OX1_tGG59eCePifrhTxIHLdirjfOpZ5Bq29c4zf8_njXtzRPazWeE2covubiCAOswFsIfEBhquglv97lVLsueSVsXnUESGqhYYBB/s1600/close+up+of+light+blue+on+back.JPG" target="_blank">in patches</a> in a couple of places. Not surprisingly, it felted, or didn't felt, in exactly the same way as the purple sample I tried:<br />
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It even separated at one end like the purple piece did:<br />
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This is how it looked at the window:<br />
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I don't know what these tops could be, the only similar experience I've had to this is trying to felt Suri Alpaca locks, but they did at least stay together, if loosely. Superwash has been suggested, but I don't think they do dyed Superwash or put it in the Botany Waste. Before I tried felting any of the Botany Lap waste tops, I'd tried spinning some. It was only the 2nd time I'd used my wheel, so thought the trouble I was having was beginner's issues and also because I was trying tops. My first attempt had been from blended batts I'd drum carded and was much easier. I'd always planned on using the spun yarn for weaving anyway, so used some on one piece:<br />
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<br />I've separated them all now for spinning and to try using them as I would embellishment fibres. If you're interested in embellishment fibres, have a look at The Felting and Fiber Studio today for a <a href="https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2016/11/25/e-book-giveaway/" target="_blank">giveaway of my e-book The Right Fibre</a>.<br />Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-67566560083604668112016-10-24T19:03:00.000+01:002016-10-24T19:03:02.284+01:00Unexpected ResultsI thought I'd make a big piece of nuno felt, with plans to make it into a book cover. I recently got a big bag of Botany Lap waste from World of Wool with some nice blues and purples slightly different to the ones I already had so I thought a patchwork of colours with a collage of silk pieces would work great. I noticed quite early on it didn't seem to be felting the 'usual' way, but put it down to starting on the back, which I don't usually do, but had wanted to make sure there were no thin edges, so I'd flipped it over. And I wondered if I'd overwet it a bit too. Then some bits of silk came right off, which did seem very odd, as I've been using bits of these same silk scarves for years. I thought that one of the 'waste' wool tops I'd used mustn't have been Merino, it did feel a bit 'rougher', but sometimes they can do if they're a bit old or some colours seem a bit drier too. It wasn't vastly different so I guessed it might be Corriedale. When it came to fulling, it all got really weird. I know different wool breeds and wool amounts, and using fabrics etc affects shrinkage, so when I make patchy and/or nuno pieces, I don't expect it to be as neat and 'square' as simpler pieces, but this was all over the place. This is the finished piece now it's dry:<br />
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When I'd flipped it over during the fulling, when the distortion became more pronounced, I suddenly went 'Aaah!' as I realised. This is the back:<br />
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It seemed obvious then that not only was one of the 'waste' wool tops possibly not Merino (the mid blue), but the turquoisey one was probably not 100% Merino, either. It felt soft, but then some colours do seem softer, and it wasn't obvious looking at it that it was blended with anything. I did a burn test and it burnt the same as some Merino, but some of the close up photos I took made it look quite synthetic. It reminded me of the fake Angora fibre I have.<br />
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When I looked at the places where the silk hadn't attached fully and where it had come off altogther, it was where I'd used the soft lap waste tops both on top and underneath. This is one piece which really tried to hang on :<br />
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<br />Where I'd used the two different types together, I did get an interesting texture on the Silk. This is the vertical purple/lilac strip on the right hand side:<br />
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And you can see in the photo of the whole piece how that silk strip changes about a quarter of the way down, with different wools. I think I'll keep all these together so I know to expect unusual results, maybe use them for experiments. The only real problem they caused was where the softer tops, possibly blends, were in two layers, and the silk had come off, the felt was cobwebby in those places. (not a great photo, but you get the idea!)<br />
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One piece which did turn out how I expected was a new coaster I made using some woven pencil roving waste which had been gathering dust for months (I flipped it over, just in case). I did almost use some Botany Lap Waste tops, but changed my mind at the last minute:<br />
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I think the colours and rippling give the illusion it's bumpier than it is. You can feel texture on the surface, but it's subtler than it looks:<br />
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Have you had any unexpected results or surprises using unknown wools or fibres?Zedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09501183383883177154noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608820972561772862.post-42257030674234449382016-09-20T14:44:00.000+01:002016-09-20T14:44:25.224+01:00Another Bag and Some WeavingIf you're anything like me, when you get the sewing machine and felt and/or fabric scraps out, you end up with stuff absolutely everywhere and a huge mess to tidy away afterwards which takes so long you start to consider whether you really need to use that room again or if you can get away with shutting the door on the mess forever. I usually try to make the most of it and do as many sewing projects as I can all in one go and live with the mess in the mean time. After making the satchel type bag, I had some good sized off cuts left over so thought I'd make myself another bag. This one is 'passport bag' size. This is what it looks like from the front with the flap closed:<br />
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And this is what it looks like with the flap open - I used magnetic closures again:<br />
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The <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01/6963011816/" target="_blank">felt piece I used for the flap</a> is at least 4 years old, one of those pieces you make for fun and put 'in the box' until you find the perfect use for it. Weirdly after using it on the bag, I was watching Neighbours (an Aussie soap, for those who don't know) and a character was wearing a jacket, just like my bag flap!<br />
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I did a bit of spindle spinning and then weaving recently. I thought it'd be nice for fairs or the well being classes to show how hand woven yarn can be used. This first one was made with fairly neat (by my standards, anyway) yarn, just single ply, and I didn't wet and set the twist or anything, just wound it onto an old broom handle from the spindle. I wove it on a little kids loom I bought:<br />
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<br />A closer look:<br />
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I was doing some of the weaving at night watching Parks and Recreation and thought I was using all naturals, but it was obvious in daylight I'd used some yarn I made ages ago from hand dyed Merino (green over orang, I think), but I think it matches alright.<br />
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Since not everyone has a loom handy, I thought I'd make a few pieces with cardboard looms, so I cut some rectangles and then marked out sections and cut notches in the bottom. I also used some yarn I'd made from my carding scraps - the really wiry, scruffy, short and matted bits - and some coarser wools like Herdwick (the bits I used looked like unpicked Brillo pads) and a couple I got from Wollknoll which look like shredded wheat - to show that yarn, and weaving, can still look good even if you don't make smooth, even yarn. This is a tall one I made:<br />
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That's a dried pepper keeping it flat, I'll probably have to wet and block some of these becasue they want to curl! Close up:<br />
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This is a really small one I made:<br />
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<br />A close up:<br />
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This is the larger of the cardboard looms I made:<br />
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<br />And this is a photo of the loom above with a smaller cardboard loom (it
already has the warp thread wound on it) and how they compare to the
kids’ loom I have. That is probably smaller than A4/printer paper:<br />
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