Saturday, 7 February 2009

Experiments with felting



Today I went to a textile group and had a go at nuno felting which is felting thin strands of wool onto silk, chiffon etc. My first attempt was too thick so I added needle felted flowers but I was quite pleased with my second attempt as I put the wool on finer and as the wool felted it dragged the chiffon into quite textural folds. I am going to add to both of these with some beads and threads but it was great to experiment today..so thanks Ann. Think I will make some felted beads tonight once the kids go to bed..they are all running round playing captain underpants at the moment..ha ha!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your felting looks great!! isn't this fun to do!!! Be careful, its affictive hahaha

carol l mckenna said...

Beautiful ~ have done needlefelting but never on silk ~ oh there are so many wonderful arts to do ~ I could do a different one each day ~ think I best focus on just a few ~ Love the look you created ~ thanks,

Hugs and namaste, Carol (artmusedog)