Post by simplynaturalfarm on Feb 25, 2017 23:04:36 GMT
These are two bird pods I gave to my Mom for her birthday - I should have hung them up for the picture, but I was frenzied cleaning for the visit and thought I'd better snap a picture before they were gone 
The brown and white one was from east friesan raw wool (not even carded. . ) with a bit of the tan corriedale hither and yon - I wanted it brown on top and merging into white and then decided it needed something different.
The other was remnants from batts from slipper making and just looks like a crazy quilt. The hole grew quite huge in the crazy quilt one, it shrunk to nothing in the other one and had to be cut later. My 9 year old felted the crazy quilt one and did a fantastic job
My 4 year olds slippers - she wanted three colors and I felted the inside separately so it could be folded weirdly the way she asked me to
4 year olds elbow mitts - the brown is a 30% alpaca/merino, with the cream edging being raw uncarded alpaca for a bit of weird hairy prettiness - I like different looks
2 year old's slippers - nothing fancy because he wanted to wear them before I was done - he actually let them dry on his feet as he wore them for days!
felted mitten liners - nothing fancy, made for myself and my husband stole them for inside his canvas elbow length army mittens that are always cold.
Another pair of mittens that were embroidered later around the top with flowers as well as leather bottoms, but I don't have them anymore - I think I suck at remembering to take pictures!
These were my second attempt at felting slippers and I have made much better since, but I don't have the pictures.
My husband has my camera at work this week, or I would take pictures of my boots in progress. I had an issue with the top separating so there are two layers in my last pair and now I have to figure out how to fix that. I don't know if needle felting would do it or what - it was 30 micron roving, but the fibers were sooo long and silky and they were more slippery than anything I've ever worked with. It felted differently in the swatch I made, and then when I did the boots, it was completely different!
The brown and white one was from east friesan raw wool (not even carded. . ) with a bit of the tan corriedale hither and yon - I wanted it brown on top and merging into white and then decided it needed something different.
The other was remnants from batts from slipper making and just looks like a crazy quilt. The hole grew quite huge in the crazy quilt one, it shrunk to nothing in the other one and had to be cut later. My 9 year old felted the crazy quilt one and did a fantastic job
My 4 year olds slippers - she wanted three colors and I felted the inside separately so it could be folded weirdly the way she asked me to
4 year olds elbow mitts - the brown is a 30% alpaca/merino, with the cream edging being raw uncarded alpaca for a bit of weird hairy prettiness - I like different looks
2 year old's slippers - nothing fancy because he wanted to wear them before I was done - he actually let them dry on his feet as he wore them for days!
felted mitten liners - nothing fancy, made for myself and my husband stole them for inside his canvas elbow length army mittens that are always cold.
Another pair of mittens that were embroidered later around the top with flowers as well as leather bottoms, but I don't have them anymore - I think I suck at remembering to take pictures!
These were my second attempt at felting slippers and I have made much better since, but I don't have the pictures.
My husband has my camera at work this week, or I would take pictures of my boots in progress. I had an issue with the top separating so there are two layers in my last pair and now I have to figure out how to fix that. I don't know if needle felting would do it or what - it was 30 micron roving, but the fibers were sooo long and silky and they were more slippery than anything I've ever worked with. It felted differently in the swatch I made, and then when I did the boots, it was completely different!
