I'm getting excited about the embellisher machine I recently bought. It hasn't arrived yet but I am busy creating some felted pieces that I will be able to play around with once it arrives. Above you can see a piece that I began on Saturday night. It is built on top of a piece of plain cheesecloth so it is Nuno felting.
Here I am showing the cheese cloth background with the colored roving on top.
The next step is to wet it all down before I roll it up in plastic bubble wrap and spend a bit of time rolling and felting the fibers.
Here is the same piece after the felting process is finished. I am intending to cut this up and use bits and pieces in other dooleybobbers. I needed some hand made felt as opposed to the commercial craft felt.
Then I made this small piece, incorporating some silk fibers as well. The silk is held by the wool fibers but doesn't actually felt by itself. I will be embellishing this with hand stitching and beading.
I received a few comments about my creative mess in the previous post so thought I would show you the equally creative mess on what used to be my dining room table in the house. Or maybe it is purely a mess? It is certainly no longer a dining table. My whole house is a big mess. I don't have time for cleaning, there are more important things to do. Art needs to be made! Cleaning only comes before creativity in the dictionary.
I hope you are all safe and snug in your cozy homes.
Be well.
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