Just playing around with a little needlefelted prototype; the base figure was made using the cookie cutter as a template. Clothes and pigtails of my hand-dyed fiber (wool and mohair) layered on.
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Showing posts with label needlefelted. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Needlefelted Girl
Monday, October 27, 2008
Needlefelted Butterfly
Another in my series of Warholized images, this one depicts a stylized needlefelted butterfly I made originally for my youngest niece. I'll be seeing her again (for the first time in a year and a half) very soon. Hello, Gracie!
Friday, August 8, 2008
Needlefelted Magnolias
I just finished this custom order of needlefelted magnolia boutonnieres for an August wedding. The petals are made of Dorset down wool and yearling mohair from a local San Diego County shepherdess, the stamens of Rambouillet wool, and the leaves of domestic and merino wool that I blended with Bombyx morii silk.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Colorful Custom-Carded Rolags and Needlefelted Flower
This week's Etsybloggers' Blog Carnival theme is "Carnival of Colors". Color was on my mind the other day as I was busy filling a custom order for a needlefelted rose that I had made on my 25th anniversary last December. My task was to reproduce the colors for the new flower.
The process begins with the selection of the basic pink wool for the rose petals. Neutral-colored wools are then blended with the original pink using handcards to make slight variations in the pink color: alternately, white, gray, brown, and black wool is custom-carded with the pink to make fluffy rolags. I learned this rewarding essential technique with spinner extraordinaire Celia Quinn at a workshop I took last fall.
I think the new flower's colors are spot-on like the original. It's good to know that I have retained the knowledge of color-blending that I learned from Celia, even though I hadn't used this particular method in a number of months.
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