My fourth scarf was a light and lacy featherweight with cobweb lace edges..
I was thinking of summer days and coastal walks :) I wanted to blend lots of lovely blues; merino and tussah silk with natural creamy white tussah. Time to get the drum carder out :) I picked the fibres and arranged them on my workbench in the order that they would go through the carder.
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| This is my first step when I'm making a variegated batt. Starting on the right I feed each fibre through the carder, one on top of the other. |
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| After the first pass through the carder it is a big layered 'sandwich' |
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| I split the bat into 4 along the length.. then holding what was the top and bottom layer of the batt I pull each strip gently apart to open up the layers |
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| And feed it through the carder again (2nd pass) |
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| These batts had 3 passes through the carder, I wanted them to be very subtly variegated. For the third pass I peel thin layers off the batt and put it straight through the carder. I drizzle extra silk straight onto the fibre on big drum in places where I felt it needed more silk or colour variation |
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| Laying out my wrap. This was longer than my 8 foot table, so I had to wet it out, roll half of it up and move it along the table in order to finish the layout. |
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| Wide enough to wear as a wrap / shawl |
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| Fine enough to bunch up and wear as a scarf :) |
I am so loving colour at the moment!
I really enjoyed blending my batts and felting from them.. not having done it for a while, so decided to make a couple more. I had the painting Flaming June by Lord Frederic Leighton stuck in my mind.. so of course you can guess the colours I went for :)
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10 comments:
June can have lovely Flaming sunrises too...how lucky for you to have a drum carder. I need to make the perfect 'jersey cow brown' and figure this would be a good reason to have one.
The scarves are so pretty with that lacey border!
Wow, maszyna jest fantastyczna. I twoje szale też są cudne. Taka letnia kolorystyka.
They are gorgious!!! Wish I could felt that thin. :)) hugzz....peebee
GREAT GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTT, love it!!!
Thank you girls :)
Peebee.. it's just practice :) The felt on your lights looks lovely and fine.
Karolina I LOVE my drum carder :)
Kerry, I think the need for a Jersey cow brown is an EXCELLENT reason to treat yourself :)
xoxo
The subtelty of the colours in the blue scarf is beautiful. And I love the photo of the silk laid out on the merino before the felting - I always find that contrast of textures particularly satisfying!
Sweet! I love all of them! The drum carder makes it so much fun to mix fibers!
Becky, I love seeing silk and merino tops together too, they look so pretty it's almost a shame to do anything with them :)
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Kelly, I luuurve my drum carder :) I need to take a leaf out of your book and be more daring with what I add to my batts I think, get some really fun textural ones :)
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You really have captured the sea in the blue one - wonderful. I enjoyed looking at the carding photos! All those lovely blended colours. That's a big project to tackle, with regard to size of layout, but so worth it.
Thanks Lyn :)
Carding pretty batts and using them certainly takes the back-breaking element out of laying out big pieces that's for sure.
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