Post by Frances on Jul 21, 2014 19:42:21 GMT
Saturday, a cloudy rainy day, I decided to make my first vessel/bowl - I started with a plastic bowl and covered it with a layer of dish soap
and then I added wool roving, tussah silk strands and some curly wool. Wet it and covered it with stretchy net and rubbed it vigorously.
Thinking that the wool was pretty well felted I then removed the net and placed a lingerie bag over the bowl and wool and thought I had tied it securely and put it in the dryer to bounch around a bit. After about 5 minutes I opened the dryer to discover the the bowl had come apart from the wool, the bag had opened and that apparently the top side of the wool had felted but not the underneath layers. I had a nice tangled mess of wool. I untangled it as much as I could and hung it up to dry in the shower.
Today, Monday, I thought about it and looked at it and thought what now??? I cut a piece of felted yarn going across the opening and put in over my head and declared it a Funky Scarf.
What do you think Scarf or cut it up and use it to embelish something else?
After this experment I purchased an ebook on felting vessels using a flat resist and studied a couple of tutorials using ballons to make a vessel. I purchased 9" and 12" ballons and have a flat plastic resist ready - I will be trying both methods and will report back.
Hopefully I will not end of with another Funky or OOPS scarf.
and then I added wool roving, tussah silk strands and some curly wool. Wet it and covered it with stretchy net and rubbed it vigorously.
Thinking that the wool was pretty well felted I then removed the net and placed a lingerie bag over the bowl and wool and thought I had tied it securely and put it in the dryer to bounch around a bit. After about 5 minutes I opened the dryer to discover the the bowl had come apart from the wool, the bag had opened and that apparently the top side of the wool had felted but not the underneath layers. I had a nice tangled mess of wool. I untangled it as much as I could and hung it up to dry in the shower.
Today, Monday, I thought about it and looked at it and thought what now??? I cut a piece of felted yarn going across the opening and put in over my head and declared it a Funky Scarf.
What do you think Scarf or cut it up and use it to embelish something else?
After this experment I purchased an ebook on felting vessels using a flat resist and studied a couple of tutorials using ballons to make a vessel. I purchased 9" and 12" ballons and have a flat plastic resist ready - I will be trying both methods and will report back.
Hopefully I will not end of with another Funky or OOPS scarf.
