tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77331440823043879462024-03-12T23:53:43.205+00:00Felters JourneyA wet felters journey through a wonderful wooly world.FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.comBlogger407125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-43297980906303315372017-05-26T14:24:00.000+01:002017-05-29T15:24:32.320+01:00Starting over in a new place<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been finding it very hard to come back to my blog since the last post. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The last few months I've been finding my feet again.. figuring out what my new normal is. I feel like I'm getting there.. things are starting moving again, slowly but hopefully surely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have built myself a nice new website - <a href="http://www.feltersjourney.co.uk/">www.feltersjourney.co.uk</a> - it would be great if you could go over, have a look and let me know what you think.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have also decided to move my blog over there, so this will be the last post on <i>this </i>blog and a new blog will start soon <a href="https://www.feltersjourney.co.uk/blog-1" target="_blank">here</a> - I would absolutely love it if you join me there and comment please :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">** Thanks to Ellen for querying how to follow the new blog! There isn't a simple 'follow' option unfortunately.. but I have set up a 'subscribe to site' option which will send an automatic notification whenever there is a new blog post. I've also added an RSS button for anyone with a reader who would rathr follow that way. **</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can also find me as FeltersJourney on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FeltersJourney/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel" target="_blank">Facebook </a>and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/feltersjourney/?hl=en" target="_blank">Instagram</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Till next time :) </span></div>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-89710719678336864702016-12-12T16:41:00.000+00:002016-12-12T21:05:52.607+00:00My Mom..<!-- Wikplayer https://www.wikplayer.com -->
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My mom passed away on 9th October 2016.. she was 68 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you've been with my blog for a while you'll know that mom suffered with vascular dementia, and for the past 2 years caring for her has been one of the biggest parts of my life.. helping my dad to keep her at home. Something we managed to do.. she was in her own home to the end and we were there with her when she passed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Time has been behaving in such a very strange way.. like I'm walking on a conveyor belt that is whizzing me along faster than I should be going. I don't want to start pouring stuff out on here.. I just wanted to let you know why things are so quiet..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am taking some time to re-balance and come to terms with everything that's happened.. I've retreated into a cocoon. There hasn't been much felting going on for a while.. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been reading a lot, and</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I've been drawing. Something I haven't really done since I was 16, and though I'm no artist I am enjoying the peace of it.. My art journal is helping me to process things. Hoping that the new year will see a return to creativity and positivity, and a moving forward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I found this beautiful poem last week, which so sums up how I am feeling at the moment..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year I do not want<br />the dark to leave me.<br />I need its wrap<br />of silent stillness,<br />its cloak<br />of long lasting embrace.<br />Too much light<br />has pulled me away<br />from the chamber<br />of gestation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let the dawns<br />come late,<br />let the sunsets<br />arrive early,<br />let the evenings<br />extend themselves<br />while I lean into<br />the abyss of my being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let me lie in the cave<br />of my soul,<br />for too much light<br />blinds me,<br />steals the source<br />of revelation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let me seek solace<br />in the empty places<br />of winter’s passage,<br />those vast dark nights<br />that never fail to shelter me.</span></div>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-78698966054257549042016-08-27T17:28:00.000+01:002018-09-14T09:17:55.908+01:00More critters.. meet Mr. Fox<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My critter collection has grown! Earlier in the year I made my first Mr. Fox doorstopper - There simply HAD to be a Mr. Fox, we get foxes visiting the field next to our home regularly and enjoy watching them mooching about, litters of cubs playing, and gangle legged youngsters messing around in the way all adolescent canines do :)</span></div>
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<br />FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-10448021090809556502016-07-27T11:57:00.003+01:002016-07-27T11:57:24.590+01:00Stash Busting Icelandic Rug #3<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wow.. I'm on a roll.. a rug making roll!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even after felting two pretty good sized rugs I had a big box of Icelandic fibre left, but didn't think I particularly <i>needed </i>another rug right <i>now</i>. So decided I'd reduced that particular stash enough not to worry about the rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">WELL, a week or so later, while looking closely at the '<a href="http://feltersjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/jacobs-fleece-felted-rug.html" target="_blank">sheep friendly sheepskin</a>' rug at the bottom of my bed, I noted that it had become quite shabby. It has always been a little shabby :) and I liked that about it, it was after all the first of this sort of felting I'd ever done (link to when I blogged it above, just checked the post date - 6 years ago.. wow)! In one particular area it had gone really thin.. this is a spot where I got a toe caught in a loop of locks one night as I was blundering about in the dark, ripping the locks loose as I tripped! Where they wrenched free of the felt it must of weakened it, and over time the passage of our feet has worn it down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">SO.. a third rug <i>was </i>needed :) A narrower rug this time (the one it's replacing was way too big really). More bright colours.. but a different design this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Masses of rubbing and rolling again.. each of these rugs has taken at least two days.. the big one took two and a half. I felt like I'd found my stride, and learned a couple things about rug making at this point :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also worth mentioning that I rinsed them in the washing machine on cool.. they are so very big and bulky they'd of needed to be done in the bath otherwise, and I just couldn't face the backache that would bring.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Back side / front side flip..<br />see how well the coloured design migrated through the white</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is my favourite of the three :)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It lives on MY side of the bed and makes me happy every time I see it :)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I just LOVE being able to walk all the way around our bed, feeling my felt rugs underfoot all the way!</span>FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-60754474313247819812016-07-25T10:23:00.000+01:002016-07-25T10:23:02.877+01:00Stash Busting Icelandic Rug #2<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most of this post was typed in April, from the finished rug photos is new :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After finishing the first rug I was surprised at how much Icelandic fibre I still had.. so decided to</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">make a second, BIGGER, rug for the sitting room. In the same style as the first; simple brightly coloured blocks, this time with black Icelandic fibre at the back.. so as I felt and the fibres creep through it will darken the colours slightly, as well as bringing them together aesthetically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's funny how much more noticeable the colours coming through the black are, than the black coming through the colour. I know they're there, I can see a change in the colour values.. it's just a subtle, darkening and softening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This one is quite a bit bigger.. and took quite a lot longer to make. After making these two rugs within a 6 day period I am shattered :) and my poor forearms are covered in rub rash / friction burn from all the rolling! So glad I've made them though :)</span></div>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-77065519629628078222016-07-22T12:07:00.003+01:002016-08-09T15:59:30.753+01:00OUTdoor soles on the dyed Finn Boots<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finally got these boots finished! I mentioned ages ago that the outdoor soles I had purchased in my shoe size were waaay too big for the boots made to fit my feet.. SO I ordered a pair of soles one size smaller than I take in shoes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They fitted pretty well to the bottoms of the boots. I used my leather punch to make four holes around the sewing lip on each sole, and with my twist pins secured them in place (with cellulose board 'boot prints' sandwiched in between the rubber sole and felt). Then I hand stitched them on using my Silver Creek Speedy Stitcher and strong waxed thread. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm really happy with how they look.. unfortunately I can't wear them! The smaller size shoe soles are the perfect length for me but they are too narrow. The raised ridges along the sides stick up under the balls of my feet :( SO, I shall be taking them along when I visit a friend of mine with smaller feet .. hopefully she can be my guinea pig and report back how well they wear..</span></div>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-46476793989776437132016-07-22T11:26:00.001+01:002016-07-22T11:26:10.799+01:00Stash Busting Icelandic Rug #1<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">There's been a lot going on in my personal life recently.. I haven't done much felting, and as you know I've been very inactive online. I am determined to try and get my life back on track, part of that is blogging again. I typed this post ages ago (3 months ago today in fact)! But didn't have photo's of this finished article so held off posting it. Well, I took photos - <i>finally -</i> yesterday :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I mentioned a few weeks back <i>(ahem back in April)</i>, I'm determined to reduce the amount of 'stuff' stored in my house.. some serious de-stashing is in order! I have 3 big plastic boxes full of lovely colourfully dyed Icelandic batts from Alafoss in Iceland. This is my slipper/boot making stash - Icelandic is easy to work with and once thoroughly felted is very hard wearing. I have decided not to make boots / slippers to sell anymore (happy to teach instead). SO it's time to use up as much as possible :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is <i>not </i>a hardship :) For the last 18 months I have been intending to felt a rug for my side of the bed.. just never finding the <i>time</i>. Plus we will be replacing my HUGE work table with a smaller dining table soon.. and I want to get my rug made while I have a big workspace!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To make it a little less jarring to the eye I laid down a base of white fibre first (used white English 56's from World of Wool, since I had no Icelandic white left). This should migrate through and soften the colours a little.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After LOTS and LOTS of rubbing and rolling, using boiling water in the final stages..</span><br />
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-46884774910645355472016-04-22T11:19:00.005+01:002016-04-22T11:19:44.636+01:00Fibre and Thread Sketching - In The Forest<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Week 10</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This time I wanted to try and get a 'carved' appearance.. almost like a wood cut effect. So I cut the face out, then cut holes for the eyes and beak. Also cut along the wing line and his legs are separate pieces.</span></div>
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<br />FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-31097778021303582742016-04-19T14:18:00.001+01:002016-04-19T14:18:26.038+01:00Stash Busting - Knitting some Homespun<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year I am GOING to claim back parts of my house that have been taken over (utterly swamped) by supplies etc. SO there's going to be lots of stash busting going on :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First off I wanted to use up some yarn I spun years ago (?5/6 years ago). I dyed the fibre and spun it thick and thin then plied it with a decorative thread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the skein I started with.. I don't knit much so had no idea how far it would go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've had this set of 'odd pins' for aaages, never used them, never heard of anyone using odd pins tbh but they were a packaged pair so I knew it must be a 'thing'.. I googled for tips before starting out and apparently it's called CONDO knitting! The only tip I found really was to cast on and off using the smaller pin and another of the same size.. then start using the fat pin with just one thin pin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The decorative thread plied into the blue yarn is a sparkly metalic.. I love the way it twinkles :) It's nice to have something to wear and see from these yarns instead of just admiring them in my handspun yarn box. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I'm pleased with the quirky stitch too - and it was soooo easy, just garter stitch! :)</span></div>
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<br />FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-23286575619422210492016-04-08T16:15:00.001+01:002016-04-08T16:15:40.717+01:00Fibre and Thread Sketching - WATER<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Oh dear.. I'm getting very behind posting these on here.. and time to actually join in is also in short supply - for the last 3 weeks I haven't 'sketched'. </i></span></span></span><br />
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was short and I really wanted a quick little project.. so many possibilities for ‘water’ would of
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it simple, the inspiration for this was the ‘big fella’ in our koi pond :) although I simplified his colour/patterning a little.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I drew the outline onto commercial prefelt and cut out..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here he is swimming across the cover of my Koi book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used the photos in here to get the right shape - our fish are never still long enough for my slow eyes :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Background of dark green prefelt with blue and green silk-caps and bits of silk chiffon fabric</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The prefelts melted in like butter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finished.. quick and simple koi :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gary was pleased.. this is his favourite fish!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So
many possibilities with green; first<i> </i>I
thought of doing a green man, but knowing me I would of spent way longer than
I wanted to on him :). So I decided to
go off on a literal tangent and do a golf green.. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">I will confess I pretty much copied the design from</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> clip art. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Just a quick note here.. I don't agree with copying and don't do it (not counting ancient rock art / historic designs which I am </span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">irresistibly</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> drawn to incorporating into my work.. and when I asked an artist friend if I could do a felt version of one of her beautiful paintings). So even though it's from clip art, freely available for anyone's use.. I'm still not entirely comfortable about this piece. But I don't plan to sell it, it was made just as an exercise in play.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cutting
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">for
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Using
pins and a felting needle to temporarily fix the trees in place ..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Trees
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Final touch is a FM embroidered flag and hole,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">and I've 'healed' the wavy edges on the white felt</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">measures 6" x 6"</span></div>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-26496374200223034292016-03-18T17:24:00.004+00:002016-03-21T15:26:00.817+00:00Dyed Fin Wool Boots<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a long planned pair of boots for me.. I brought outdoor soles about 3 years but I've only just gotten around to felting them. Originally I had no idea WHAT I wanted my outdoor boots to look like, but after making the dyed Fin wool Top Hat a while back I could picture quite clearly what I wanted :)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Resist cut from foam floor underlay - as you can see<br />I changed my mind about the width of the leg and <br />had to tape an extra bit on :) </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Using all natural coloured Fin wool.. dark brown, mid brown and white.<br />Graduating from dark at the bottom to white at the top.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">After felting I added cuffs, crocheted from a chunky Shetland yarn<br />I spun a couple of years back.<br /><br />Good thing I added extra width around the legs.. these are just right :)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then came the scary moment.. I LIKED the way they looked in the natural colours, but I'd been dreaming of rich cranberry coloured boots, so forced myself to be bold and surrender them to the dyepot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had a hell of a game dyeing them in my big cauldron over the small camp stove.. made worse because it was a windy day and the flame kept getting blown out! It took 5 hours messing about lighting and relighting before they were cooked.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">But I do love the colour :)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now I have to confess to a really STUPID mistake.. I felted the boots till they fit my feet nicely, WITHout getting the soles out to look at and check the fit. Turns out the soles are actually quite a lot bigger than my feet, even though they are the correct shoe size! And the boots are that well felted that no matter how hard we try they just can't be stretched..</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">You can see the gap at the front.. there's the same gape at the back too, they're about 1cm too big!<br /><br />SO, I have just ordered the same style sole but a size smaller.. <br />I hope they fit.. (link to seller at end of post)</span></td></tr>
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Guess I shall have to felt another pair and make them roomy so I can wear them with very thick socks in the coldest weather :)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'll update when the new soles arrive..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In case you are looking for this sort of sole, I brought mine along with the cellulose board and waxed thread for stitching them from Etsy seller <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Rasae?ref=l2-shop-info-name" target="_blank">Rasae </a>in Lithuania, international postage to the UK was pretty quick.</span></div>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-90945014966295344982016-03-16T12:57:00.001+00:002016-03-16T12:57:24.251+00:00Felting to dye<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time is getting away from me! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A couple months ago I made a rather special hat (which I fell in love with) from natural Finn wool which I dyed after felting. I decided at the time to make more in this way.. and it's been an ongoing quest since then :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few weeks back I managed to felt..</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A pair of new boots for ME :), and a hat</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next step before taking the plunge into the dye pot.. samples!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A rather sad, lonely dyepot.. abandoned in the rain</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've decided all my dyeing is going to be done outdoors now.. I hate having the fumes in the house! All the worry over what fumes we are inhaling and what residues may get left behind (even though I turn into a cleaning demon after dyeing, I still worry that I may miss something).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, I dug out the old, spare camp stove and cooked it on the deck. All went well until the heavens opened.. at which point I gave up for the day :)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are the 5 I've sampled so far.. <br />there are 2 of each colour because I used 2 different natural colour combinations<br />for bases, so I could see which worked best for each dye colour.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also have the lovely green I used before, and a rich raspberry which I can't find at the moment..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next time.. progress to date with the boots.</span></div>
<br />FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-44628841639625384332016-03-11T13:28:00.004+00:002016-03-11T13:28:42.610+00:00Fibre and Thread Sketching - week 6<div style="text-align: justify;">
<u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Theme - Weather</span></u></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My inspiration..<br />this photo of Central Park that my cousin shared on <br />Facebook a few weeks ago</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Starting to build a simple picture..</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">using merino fibre, and mawata silk hankies for snow shine</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Covered with tulle ready to start felting..</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I also wanted to make some plain white felt so decided to make a bigger sheet than needed and use one corner for the picture.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">cutting the picture section out -<br />I decided to keep the bottom edge natural</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Starting Free Machine Embroidery..<br />This one turned out NOT to be a bite sized project.. it took HOURS and hours</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I really <i>wanted </i>it to be finished at this point..<br />but my husband convinced me that it really did need some people in :)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm glad I listened.. Gary was right!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />My fence is leaning the wrong way.. <br />but I'm putting it down to artistic interpretation lol</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the back..<br />BEFORE adding people and footprints in the snow</span></td></tr>
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<br />FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-158975251876612016-02-26T12:13:00.003+00:002016-02-26T12:13:36.887+00:00Botany SLiDER Hat #2<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This one is felted with the Bonfire Batts carded from my bag of Botany Waste..</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1st layer </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2nd layer - black Finn wool </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3rd layer.<br />Loving the flashes of colour.. <br />and wondering how much of it will survive felting?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Part way through.. having just removed the resist</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And several hours later - it's dark again! <br />Thank goodness for my daylight bulb craft lamp..</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it was dry I started thinking.. 'wow, all that silk just disappeared'..<br />until I turned it over and looked inside :) It's like a firework display going off in there lol </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm actually quite glad I didn't turn it.. I rather like having the quieter side out and knowing what's going on inside :)</span></div>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-35326190744734054082016-02-20T18:20:00.001+00:002016-02-20T18:20:09.954+00:00Finished Botany SLiDER Hat #1<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to go with a navy leather hat band on this one (thanks to the help of my Facebook followers :) .. with antiqued brass rivet studs rather than spikes.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I AM feeling camera shy lately.. but to be honest I just LOVE seeing them from behind :)</span></td></tr>
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I love how well the white mawata silk shows up on this.. I just used the cut-off edges. Reminds me of breaking waves on my Atlantic hat :)</div>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-1704245970450673182016-02-18T09:18:00.002+00:002016-02-18T09:18:50.593+00:00Fibre and Thread Sketching - week 5<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So much to choose from.. But I didn't want to do anything too involved.. my aim is try and keep these projects bite sized. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After a couple days thinking I settled on doing a Cornish Pixie from Harry Potter.. The one I sketched as my design was a mixture of images on the internet.. some Cornish Pixies, some fairies, and with a slightly frog like element to his hands and feet :)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wasn't confident to free hand copy it on the machine..<br /> so I traced him onto tracing paper and pinned in place</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love this blue silk! Not sure what sort it is (it's a bugger to felt mind)<br />it's soooo shiny and luxurious!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Forgot the camera for a while now :) but I snipped around the edges to reveal a little naked, wingless, blue pixie. Pinned a piece of iridescent organza over then free handed his wings and snipped round the edges of them too. </span></div>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-91831178373524622002016-02-16T17:59:00.004+00:002016-02-16T17:59:38.229+00:00Botany Batts to Hats<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">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. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carding :) so relaxing..</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4 batts.. I love the blue/brown combo.. really remind me of the Atlantic coast</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">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 :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was just itching to get started on my next SLIDER hat.. so, even though it was past lunch time, I started..</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nearly there :) It was sever hours past sunset at this point!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After rinsing, spinning and blocking.. this is what I got up to next morning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Big smiles from me :)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday I added the decorative stitching.. <br />tomorrow the band will go on</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I spent today felting another Slider using the Bonfire batts - to follow soon :)</span></div>
<br />FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-11404813127943151672016-02-11T18:07:00.005+00:002016-02-11T18:07:52.433+00:00Fibre and Thread Stitching - Week 4<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mmmmm the possibilities :) I wanted straight away to do 'something Celtic' .. but I do love zen doodles too..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sunday morning I had a couple hours free.. so I doodled :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I still had a Celtic Beastie in mind begging to be made..</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I totally cheated by tracing the beastie out of a Celtic<br />design source book :)<br />I sandwiched iridescent organza between the paper and <br />white felt and pinned.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Free machine embroidering over the lines in the drawing..</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All main lines are 'drawn' just pattern detailing to go..<br />I carefully pulled the paper away now - the stitches perforate<br />the paper so it tears away easily.. just need to go round with tweezers<br />getting tiny bits out afterwards</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carefully snipping away the excess organza close to the stitch line</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Finished</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Closer-up</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now I'm picturing bags with beasties on the flaps.. or running up and over the straps.. Not just yet though, maybe later in the year.</span></div>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-44583138398391314062016-02-08T22:29:00.002+00:002016-02-08T22:32:39.311+00:00And now a SHORT Slider :)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As I mentioned the first attempt at a 'Slider Hat' was rather taller than I had </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">planned. Even though I like how it looks, I wanted something which was a bit less of a vertical dynamo :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, here goes..</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">1st job.. work out the new resist..<br />New short resist on top of the one I used for the tall Slider</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I used the leftover batts from making the Tall Slider..</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">1st fibre layer - this is the batt which was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">on the OUTside </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">of the Tall Slider</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">2nd fibre layer - this was the middle </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">layer last time too</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">3rd fibre layer - this one was on the INside </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">of the tall Slider</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I didn't take photos of the felting process.. but you've seen it a few times by now :)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Using the tool I made at pottery class last year </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">to firm the brim</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I use the edge on the handle of my scissors to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">work the crease between crown and brim.. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">make it nice and crisp.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Drying.. with the brim weighted down </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">at front and back</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Light blue woollen yarn for simple </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">decorative stitching. A couple of incidental </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">daisy flowers on this one</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Same finishing touches as last time<br />(I love these studs :)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Height comparison:<br />The short one is 2" shorter than the tall</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Not feeling photogenic today :)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dancing in the rain :)</span></td></tr>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-44139217182138028232016-01-26T16:07:00.002+00:002016-01-28T19:57:20.811+00:00Finishing my 'Slider' Hat<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have finally finished today! Yay :) </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As this is my salute to Marc Bolan's Mad Hatter on the cover of The Slider album (which was a stitched together leather hat pictured a few posts back):</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I added decorative stitching to echo the functional stitches..<br />up the back</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And around the inside of the crown - <br />and a little daisy flower .. just because :)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I cut the hat band from a lovely slate blue leather and paired it with<br />some nickel black stud rivets (screw back)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We were just about to have a heavy rainstorm when I took this so the light was weird,<br />the washed out look to the colours reminds me of how old colour photos look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you think I look worried here I was a bit :) the wind kept buffeting my kindle as</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I tried to take a photo.. it was strong enough </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to almost blow it out of my hand!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the song he says:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'and when I'm sad</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I slide'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did toy with the idea of embroidering the lyric on the hat.. what do you think? Lyric or no? It's 'Slider' enough without anything that obvious isn't it? I think I may crumple the crown a little.. see how that looks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a happy hat :) Short version to follow soon hopefully.</span><br />
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-74561082087753010512016-01-26T15:54:00.000+00:002016-01-28T19:52:41.631+00:00Fibre and Thread Sketching - week 3<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Insects</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I must admit I’m not fond of studying insects up close and
personal :) so this wasn't really a favourite subject for
me. After a couple days thinking about
it though I remembered the illustrations in an old Winnie the Pook picture book
I used to read with the children when they were little. Unfortunately I don’t have the book anymore..
but one picture was quite vivid in my memory.. Pooh climbing up a tree looking
for honey, with really cute bees flying around him. SO.. bees.
I started searching the internet looking at bees and a lot of the honey
bees looked a bit too waspish for my liking :)- I decided to go for a bumble bee – you
can’t not love bumble bees they’re lovely! <i>(apart
from when one’s climbing through an air vent next to you.. you can hear the droning buzz
and see him wiggling his big legs at you as he clambers through.. ugh - 22 years ago and I still remember how it made me shudder and run lol).</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I sketched him (right).. then traced on to tissue paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">yellow areas on the tracing and pinned (left).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Using the darning foot on my machine I free motion
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the outline, <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">and around the yellow areas securing the fabric
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After tearing the tissue paper away I needed to trim the
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to the stitching as possible. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I actually forgot to going round the bumble’s ‘beak’ -</span></span></div>
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late to put it right I had to cobble together a solution!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After cutting around the outline of the bumble I had a nice
sturdy bee – </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which I forgot to take a photo of unattached! After stitching some simple </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">flowers in the
corner I FM stitched the bee in place.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was at this point that I realised my bee had a yellow
head.. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">it should of been black!</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I
totally forgot to stitch round the outline of his ‘beak’.</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">All I could do now </span></span></div>
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and give him a smaller head.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Finishing touches were
FM embroidered on.. legs, veins in the wings </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(I used invisible thread
for the veins.. never used that in the machine before – I'm really pleased with the
effect!)</span></div>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-66280676146810728282016-01-24T13:43:00.002+00:002016-01-24T13:43:21.738+00:00A custom built hat :)<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the other planned hat project I mentioned :) A custom topper for regular customer / pen-pal Kyle - owner of 2 of my wizard hats. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This time he wanted a Top Hat.. similar to the Fin wool and Wensleydale locks one - but in GREEN.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Layers of natural black, brown and white Fin wool </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(the diagonal band is just sunlight)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With lovely Wensleydale curls in white, grey and brown</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well on it's way to being felted.. throwing it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can see how the flat top is forming really well here</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Checking the shape and size</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was really liking how it looked at this point.. so the next step was a bit scary :) .. I had to take a deep breath before plunging it..</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In to the dye pot</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It took 2 dye baths to get the colour this deep</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First time I struggled to dye it in my smaller pot (pictured) and it just didn't have the room to brew properly. So second time round I dug my HUGE cauldron out from the garage.. which seemed to work better :)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This made to measure hat is 1 1/4" bigger than my head <br />size so I had to keep my head tilted to stop it dropping<br />down over my eyes :)</span></td></tr>
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FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-55532249569709895142016-01-21T15:32:00.000+00:002016-01-21T15:32:16.082+00:00Fibre and Thread Sketching - week 2<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm going to blog about my Sketch a Day group.. but as mine aren't really sketches per se I shall call the blog posts Fibre and Thread - after all that's what I plan to use for them :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Week 2 - In the Sea</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the last week or 2 I've been fancying doing some fishy picture panels.. a whale (inspired by <a href="http://gorgeouswithattitude.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/hundertwasser-public-toilets-and-boat.html" target="_blank">Hundertwasser's bathroom whale</a>).. some mackerel, starfish, maybe an octopus. SO I started off with the whale..</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Finished.. unless I decide to add some F M machine embroidery</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I ended up getting sidetracked :) Looking through whale images I found loads of gorgeous whale tail images.. and a lovely video on youtube - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C9Fpa33lfE" target="_blank">'how to draw a whales tail'</a> .. I kind of followed it:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">using free motion machine embroidery..</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and a felting needle and fibre <br />instead of a sharpie..</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Finished<br />3"x 3" stitch on felt 'sketch'</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was really having fun now! And decided to do an <i>alternative </i>whale tail doodle :)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">silk sari appliqué with F M machine embroidery</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I always like seeing the back on machine embroidery.<br />It's a give away that I forgot to put the lever down when doing her 'whale tail'.. it's all loopy :)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I enjoyed playing with this :) Think this is going to be good for me!</span></div>
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</span>FeltersJourneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144951816128798093noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733144082304387946.post-23380287180552641712016-01-18T10:37:00.000+00:002018-09-14T09:32:07.721+01:00In with the new..<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last time I made a mad hatter top hat I had a thought for a new resist shape.. Since I have a couple of upcoming hat projects I decided to try out my idea on this first experiment. I was going to use white merino for my trial run, but decided to use my scraps batts instead :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This should be fun! No knowing what will happen with all the crazy colours.. will they go muddy? Or make my heart sing? </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My 3 wildly colourful batts..</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mostly red toned batt for the inner layer</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mostly purple toned batt for the 2nd layer</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 3rd and outer layer is the middle batt in the top photo</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Turned inside out; rubbing the top of the hat to strengthen and shape it</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Drying out :) <br />I added a little weight to the brim to keep it flat</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I LOVE how the colours are looking! It is somewhat taller than I had envisioned though :) Going to have to wait a little while to be finished off properly, I am looking for the perfect (to me) band.. I'll post about it again when I finish off.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My old hat on the right shows the height I <i>expected </i>to get :)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For my new resist I used the same height in between the brim and where I thought the top began.. and just generally</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> tinkered with the shape. Turns out more of the height must of been drawn over to make the wide top than I realised with the old resist. Next step is to make another new resist.. but </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">shorter </i><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">:) I do love the shape and look of the hat I made.. but it's too tall for a slider, and too similar to others that are already out there!</span></div>
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