Sunday, June 21, 2009

Felted landscape


I finally finished my felted landscape piece, it is approx 10x11 inches. I have some very cool lacy stretch fabric from my good friend Lisa Peters, who also created the fabulous raku cabachon I used as the sun. I used my embellisher to needlefelt various rovings, including some beautiful, silky shiny bamboo roving from Fiber Lady, you can see it better on the in process piece below, the yellow at the top, the coral/peach/green at the bottom left and more bright green middle right.

After needlefelting, I tried a little machine stitching, then added some roving to the back and tried wet felting for the first time ever.

Although my wet felt experiment wasn't great, I did get the effect I wanted on this piece. I added a little more machine stitching, then added some yarns, tyvek, cheesecloth and lots of french knots. I want to hang it from a twig or something similar, but I am really happy with how this piece turned out.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

When you work with your favorite colors and textures your work sings! This piece is full of notes. I'm thrilled for you.

Alice C. W. Dennis said...

I love your work. The colors, oh the colors, they are soothing and beautiful.
Alice

ART*ticulation said...

Linda this piece is luscious the colors are yummy.

yaya goldie said...

this is really lovely! wonderful colors and texture.
lisa (yayagoldie)