Nuno Felting

Oh my goodness! I am so excited about this new thing I have made! Talk about feeding my color-a-holic needs! I have wanted to try Nuno Felting for awhile and yesterday turned out to be the day to begin. I looked up on the internet some instructions and found these at the Dharma site: http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/7519337-AA.shtml I laid out some long narrow grass mat, put nylon netting over that, then began layering my colorful roving. I wasn't sure how much of the roving was proper to lay down, this was my first attempt with limited instructions. I laid it down enough so that the colors would be able to felt well.

Then I put my piece of fabric on top of that. This was a fairly loosely woven piece of rayon that I cut off of a too long summer dress I bought at a garage sale last summer. On top of the fabric I layered more roving, following approximately the same design and thickness I had on the other side. I then folded the nylon netting over the top, effectively enveloping the whole business inside the netting. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to do that or not but I did.

Then I rolled everything up tightly inside the grass mat, took it up to the house to wet it down in warm soapy water and began rolling it. I rolled it for about 5 minutes, then opened it up. It didn't seem finished so I rolled it back up but this time I didn't replace the netting on the top. The netting was still underneath though. Then I rolled it for another 5 minutes, opened again and this time it seemed finished so I removed the felted piece from all the netting and mat. This is so gorgeous! I totally love it! It is thicker than I would like, and probably wider too, but the colors are so zippy and bright! I wanted it to be a scarf, and it will work for that use, although it will definitely be warm. It's finished size is about 52" X 10".

Back to the design table, I'm going to make another, thinner one

in different colors. I'll post my results of that one later. Gotta go felt!
Be well.