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Post by lindsay on Feb 3, 2019 8:22:44 GMT
Yesterday my client picked up the large wet felted landscape I’ve been making as a commission for a while. He hadn’t wanted any say in the development and didn’t want to see a photo beforehand so I was a little nervous. Happily he seemed very pleased and I will know after Wednesday whether his wife likes it - it’s a birthday present for her. I’ve decided not to post a photo till after she sees it as a I don’t want to risk spoiling the surprise.
I then made my way to the studio and set to making pebbles - as suggested by Ann - to go with my shells. I decided to make solid wool ones (I haven’t had time to look for suitable foam) so hand wet felted them to prefelt stage and finished them in a pair of tights (panty hose) in the washing machine. I’m really pleased with them and think I may make a few more today!
I also boil washed a wool jumper from a charity shop as I’d seen someone fill their pebbles with bits cut from a felted jumper. It was alarmingly successful in terms of shrinkage (from large women’s to medium child’s size) but made a bit of a mess of the washing machine. Lots of bobbly bits!
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Post by lindsay on Feb 3, 2019 8:45:04 GMT
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Post by lyn on Feb 3, 2019 10:34:05 GMT
The felted pebbles are beautiful and the colours go so well with the shells - I can almost smell the sea breeze!
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Post by Shepherdess on Feb 3, 2019 15:10:56 GMT
They look great. I was them on Facebook. I use off cuts of felt for the middles of my dryer balls.
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Post by MTRuth on Feb 3, 2019 15:28:40 GMT
These go perfectly together!
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Post by lindsay on Feb 3, 2019 16:33:17 GMT
They look great. I was them on Facebook. I use off cuts of felt for the middles of my dryer balls. That’s a good idea. I have a huge box full of off-cuts and rejects. How do you prepare the middles? Do you shred the felt or cut it into discs or roll it up?
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Post by Shepherdess on Feb 3, 2019 22:24:07 GMT
I cut it into strips and roll them into balls. Adding as many as I need to get the right size middle, then cover that with roving.
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Post by lindsay on Feb 5, 2019 8:43:36 GMT
I cut it into strips and roll them into balls. Adding as many as I need to get the right size middle, then cover that with roving. Thanks, Ann, I may give that a go
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Post by pamster on Feb 9, 2019 0:47:21 GMT
I am really lucky to have a friend who loves scarves, so I can play and learn and pass the results on to her After all the helpful advice I made another scarf with ruffled edges which I am posting here because this is where all the advice was given after the first one. This is the blue and red side:
and this is the red and blue side to which I added some silk:
While I am now happy with the process of stretching the edges I do wish I knew the language on the video that Lyn posted because I think there is probably some critical information there about laying it out for drying. Certainly her scarves twisted around beautifully which I was not able to do with mine.
Many thanks for all the helpful advice.
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Post by lindsay on Feb 9, 2019 7:59:11 GMT
Gorgeous scarf! You have a very lucky friend. I just watched the video and don’t know for sure but I doubt it’s about the drying, I suspect it’s more about practice. I was impressed by how very even her laying out is and how many times the maker worked the scarf and stretched the outer edges.
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Post by Pandagirl on Feb 9, 2019 15:49:05 GMT
Pamster the scarf turned out great.
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Post by MTRuth on Feb 9, 2019 15:50:20 GMT
Beautiful scarf Pamster!
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Post by lyn on Feb 9, 2019 23:01:54 GMT
You're doing great Pamster - lovely scarf!
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