Category Archives: Felting
Yellow
This piece was started by needle felting wool roving on cotton. I then sewed various free motion shapes on water soluble stabilizer and once the stabilizer was dissolved out I sewed them on over the felt.
The subject was inspired by a tree I saw while driving to my cottage.
Great Blue Heron
Last weekend I took a course given by Megan Cleland on needle felting animals. The course was given at Fibrefest in Almonte. It was a small class and Megan gave excellent instruction and demos. I chose to do a Great Blue Heron from one of the photographs taken on a morning walk. I thought I was finished when I left the class but since then I’ve done the back ground 3 times. I then removed a lot of it because it was too busy.
I’ve painted the heron in watercolours several times and that helped me in doing this picture. The felting is easier but takes longer to do even if you don’t remove what you’ve needle felted in place several times.
It is now pinned up on a wall so I can look at it and decide if there is anything else I need to add or change before I mount it.
A Bridge Not Too Far
The 5 span stone bridge at Pakenham is on one of the routes that I can take to get to my cottage. This needle felted landscape was done from a photograph I took last summer and was intended to be in a show entitled Canadian Landmarks. The show was in November and I have now just finished the piece.
Five
Some red roving had been staring at me for days, just asking to be needle felted into a piece.
I learned the technique of making the metal pieces from pop cans in a Hilary Rice workshop.
Red Fox 2
A few weeks ago I posted a watercolour of a red fox and said that I might do it in felt.
Well I did and here’s the result.
Red Fox
Using the watercolour as a guide certainly helped the process.
Warm and Cool Colours
Finished 2 small pieces this week for Fibre Fling 5. One is done in cool colours, the other in warm.
Waves
Oranges & Lemons
Both are needle felted.
Meandering
Just finished a new needle felted piece. This time, for the background, I used a piece that I had wet felted years ago and never did anything with.
Meandering
This will be one of the pieces shown at Out of the Box‘s Fibre Fling 5 show in early April.
Purple and Blue
A new needle-felted piece. I’m not sure if it’s finished. I need to live with it for awhile to see what it says to me.
Eddies
I am enjoying playing with colour and texture.
Eddies
Here is my latest felted piece. It will be mounted on a painted canvas. I haven’t yet decided which colour or colours I’m going to paint it. I have fooled around in Photoshop and have come up with several possible versions.
Possible colours for background
Which one do you like best?
