Felting Wool Boas 2+New Beadwork

I have been remiss in not including in the felt boa shots my own example. I did mine in all white expecting to dye the entire scarf after felting. However, it turned out so Victorian in white that I am loath to mess with it. I am toying with the idea of lightly tea dying it for an antique look.

I have also included my latest beadwork ventures. My love in beadwork is using brick stitch to actually draw figures or motifs. I am including "Swingtime" a brooch I did a while ago based on  a Fred and Ginger partnership. I just completed "Top Hat" and "Putt'n On The Ritz", brooches after a sole Fred.

I have also purchased several stoneware pendants from Artbeads and used the motif etched and painted in the pendant to create a surround for the focal bead.

Photos Felting Wool Boas

Here are the photos of us felting wool boas on a center strip of silk chiffon:

                                          

Thursday Felters group

I'm back from a wonderful tour of Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam. I am still sorting photos as I had to buy a new hard drive to take all the new photos.

Back into the swing of artistic creation, my felting study group had  a fantastic session this Thursday. Renata Moskovitz taught us all to felt a lacy boa like scarf with a long fiber wool on a strip of silk chiffon.
I can't wait to get back to beading with all my new pictorial resources. Joanne

More Artists Community Service

Continuing on with the felting warm innersoles for homeless and needy people. We felted and cut over 80 pairs on warm innersoles:

Happy Holidays to all, Joanne

Artists Community Service

My felting study group (a subgroup of the Potomac Fiberarts Guild) decided for our December meeting to apply ourselves to a community service project. We all decided that we had failed felted projects such as purses, wall hangings, etc that just didn't come out right but would be perfect for cutting up into innersoles that would provide warmth for the feet of the homeless or otherwise needy people. So we organized shoe patterns in various sizes and began by cutting up items that we had already felted. We continued by making more felt from odds and ends of wool to provide more felt for soles. We ended up with over 80 pairs of warm wool innersoles to be distributed by local charities.

Cutting soles out of previously felted failed projects:

 Laying out wool for new felt:

A quick trip through the needlefelting machine:

 Wetting down the wool:


 Rolling for wet felting:




Wetting and rolling the needlefelted piece:

Unrolling and rerolling in the opposite direction:

  

 Some help from the rolling machine:

Hand Fulling:

More Cutting:

Organizing the soles by size: