Last week I brought 500g of Botany Waste from World of Wool; it's a lucky dip bag full of odds 'n ends - each bag is different. The reason I brought it was simply to try and replicate the random batts I get when I card everything in my fibre compost bin. When I try and 'do it myself' just picking what I think are odd colours from my stash.. they just end up looking muddy.. or plain wrong.
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Freshly tumbled out of the bag :)
There was even some baby camel fibre in there (that's what I think it was anyway)
.. gorgeously soft! |
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| Carding :) so relaxing.. |
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| 4 batts.. I love the blue/brown combo.. really remind me of the Atlantic coast |
I couldnt help sorting just a little.. there was such a nice potential combination with the blues, greys, white and browns. So I have the 'Atlantic' batts, and the others are manly brown with shots of brightly coloured wool top and tussah silk with multicoloured firestar for sparkly.. Bonfire Night batts :)
I was just itching to get started on my next SLIDER hat.. so, even though it was past lunch time, I started..
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| First layer |
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| Second layer - white Finn wool for more body |
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| Third layer |
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| Nearly there :) It was sever hours past sunset at this point! |
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After rinsing, spinning and blocking.. this is what I got up to next morning
Big smiles from me :) |
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Yesterday I added the decorative stitching..
tomorrow the band will go on |
I spent today felting another Slider using the Bonfire batts - to follow soon :)
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