A few years ago my friend L, who’s enormously artistic and creative gathered a few like-minded souls about for a felting workshop. We all met at D’s house, loaded with buckets, soap and bubble wrap and launched into an extremely fun morning making these scarves?/table runners?/ unspecified decorative thingys? I think we intended them to be scarves, but mine ended up too wide and shrunk lengthwise too much. I did wear it once as a sort of wrap around my hips over an all-black outfit and it looked kind of chic like that…
However it’s full-time position is on the coffee table in my front room for visitors to admire (ha ha) as it goes perfectly with the decor; bit of luck there… (the photo below is obv not in my front room, just to avoid a flurry of corrective commentation; the light was better outside…so!)
It’s made mostly of dyed unspun merino, but has a few swirls of various knitting wools and some beads embedded in there as well. Over time some of these beads have worked their way out and been found lurking in corners and under sofas and I’ve reattached them with a few firm stitches. Inevitable for something that has become the favourite sleeping place of a certain naughty puss-cat….
Ahhhh… my old friend felting…. my final collection at uni was pretty much all felting. hehe which reminds me, I should whip out my old photos and do a post on it one day!
hehe I thought of you on Friday when I was at Spotlight (I've been spending far too much time there for my liking)… I nearly bought pillows instead of the zip I needed… but I abstained! Have been spending sooo much money lately on sewing paraphernalia… speaking of which, I found this great new fabric website: http://superbuzzy.com/ (I spent $300 there last night… don't tell my boyfriend…). Lovely floral prints and great basic spots, stripes and ginghams!
This is very beautiful. I can imagine it in a living room. I'm sure it is a nice touch.
I can vouch for the fact that the cats love this felting piece. Its a shame because it is actually really nice and you can hardly see it under the big bottom of a grey obese cat =P.