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Post by lyn on Mar 10, 2012 21:40:55 GMT
Last year the nuno felt background for this piece was made from some charity shop open weave material laid atop sea-colour merino wool tops. It was very pretty but it got forgotten about until recently. It's 26"x 14" so it's big enough for a wall picture. Some scraps of felt left over from other projects were cut to shape to make this weedy sea dragon - he was put together like a jig-saw really - the bits were all needle felted into place. The only extras were a few inches of yarn to make the ribs, a few stitches to enhance the fin, a wisp or two of wool scraped from the carder and the dots on the face and torso were made with a marker pen.
The felt really is this bright colour - the only thing done to the image was cropping.
Weedy Sea Dragons are close relatives to Sea Horses and they are beautiful.
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Post by karen on Mar 11, 2012 0:11:59 GMT
Oh he's so pretty lyn, gorgeous colors and the background is so lovely with all the threads  |
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Post by pamd on Mar 11, 2012 1:16:03 GMT
Love him, Lyn. I love the threads in the background also.
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Post by MTRuth on Mar 11, 2012 4:50:42 GMT
Great job. I've never heard of a weedy sea dragon.
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Post by lyn on Mar 11, 2012 9:20:35 GMT
Thank you everyone.
Ruth - google image 'weedy sea dragon' - I think you'll be surprised at what you'll see!
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Post by zed on Mar 11, 2012 9:56:12 GMT
That looks great, the charity shop fabric must have been unusual I like weedy sea dragons too |
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Post by lyn on Mar 11, 2012 10:58:25 GMT
Hello Zed - the fabric was very delicate and it looked like a very fine fishing net with thin stripes of silk thread running its width. The felting made the coloured threads wavy which is handy for a sea scene!
The only trouble with buying fabric in charity shops is that the supply is limited! I can't get anymore of it and I'd love to be able to do so.
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 11, 2012 14:09:50 GMT
Its great. He looks like he poped out of a childrens story. The orange and yellow give the water more depth.
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Post by blueberry on Mar 11, 2012 14:19:17 GMT
Oh my! That is beautiful, and I agree he could have come from a child's story book! I had never heard of weedy sea dragons until now either.
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Post by koffipot on Mar 11, 2012 14:48:51 GMT
He's a real cutey! I'd not heard of weedy sea dragons either, but I googled it and presto, yes, there were some of his very close relatives!
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 11, 2012 20:10:42 GMT
I just googled it and it's a real creature, I thought it was a made up creature, very cool
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Post by lyn on Mar 11, 2012 20:23:41 GMT
Don't worry Ann, it's quite new to me too! There is also a leafy sea dragon which is very different.
But this is the year of the dragon and as 'rosiepink' favours things to do with the sea, a sea dragon seemed appropriate.
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Post by jufergu on Mar 14, 2012 1:14:27 GMT
I like it because it is realistic, yet has a fantasy feeling to it.
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