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Post by lindsay on Aug 14, 2018 16:32:27 GMT
Just finishing off this picture today of an avocet at Oare Marshes in Kent. Wet felted and needle felted with various wools (primarily merino), pearl fibre and scraps of recycled silk. Just a tiny bit more fiddling then I will be framing it in the next couple of days ready to show in my exhibition from 23 August.
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Avocet
Aug 14, 2018 17:06:04 GMT
Post by lyn on Aug 14, 2018 17:06:04 GMT
The avocet is a beauty. You've done his markings so well that he appears 3D.
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Post by lindsay on Aug 14, 2018 17:20:18 GMT
Thank you, Lyn. He is rather 3D as the background was felted first then the bird was attached with needle felting. As the bird was well fulled I also popped a small amount of scrap felt padding behind him so he does stand off the picture.
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Avocet
Aug 14, 2018 18:59:33 GMT
Post by MTRuth on Aug 14, 2018 18:59:33 GMT
I love him. How do you usually frame your pieces? Perhaps you told us before and I have forgotten?
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Post by lindsay on Aug 14, 2018 20:50:19 GMT
Thank you, Ruth. I have oak veneer box frames made which are 64 x 64 cm so I aim for felt that’s about 50 x 50 cm (give or take) when trimmed. I then mount the felt on the mount board using carpet spray glue, but I protect the edges with masking tape (decorators tape?) so that the fuzzy bits at the edge don’t get gunked up. They are behind glass (which I know some people don’t like) and very well secured but the edges are not stuck flat. This might help www.ipernity.com/doc/2373440/47089048
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Post by lyn on Aug 14, 2018 20:58:26 GMT
The pictures look very pretty in their frames and the natural wood fits very well with the seaside theme. Glass is protective - I have one of my felt pictures behind glass and it's so easy to dust! And I haven't heard of a moth that can get at well-framed felt behind glass.
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Avocet
Aug 14, 2018 23:48:21 GMT
Post by MTRuth on Aug 14, 2018 23:48:21 GMT
Very smart to pick a size and stick to it. My sizes are all over the place. I like the square shape too.
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Post by tracey on Aug 15, 2018 5:46:17 GMT
Thank you, Ruth. I have oak veneer box frames made which are 64 x 64 cm so I aim for felt that’s about 50 x 50 cm (give or take) when trimmed. I then mount the felt on the mount board using carpet spray glue, but I protect the edges with masking tape (decorators tape?) so that the fuzzy bits at the edge don’t get gunked up. They are behind glass (which I know some people don’t like) and very well secured but the edges are not stuck flat. This might help www.ipernity.com/doc/2373440/47089048Lindsay I have voiced my opinion before how I do not like felt under glass, it stifles it for me but I have stopped thinking about it now because a gallery owner said to me everything framed is presented glazed except oils, so they know what sells and that is good enough for me.
I was approached by a B&B owner about doing a possible commission for them and they said it would have to be under glass as it would be in the dining room - imagine folk having their breakfast and going up to touch the felt with eggy fingers ha ha !
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Post by lindsay on Aug 15, 2018 6:54:24 GMT
Very smart to pick a size and stick to it. My sizes are all over the place. I like the square shape too. Thanks, Ruth. I do have some smaller square pictures in frames and one rectangle but I decided mostly to go with the large square as the size suits the work I want to make and, well, I just like square pictures. To keep the costs down I have the box frames made in batches in advance then mount & finish the pictures myself. I bought a tab gun which is so much quicker (and more fun) than tapping small nails into the frame. I can get custom sizes / shapes made for a similar price but it slows things down a lot if I have to order a frame to suit the picture, wait for it to be made and then collect it. Plus the frame maker is about an hour and a half drive away so I’d have to wait till I needed quite a few to make it worth while. As it is I can have a picture framed and on the wall as soon as it’s dry.
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Avocet
Aug 15, 2018 7:03:07 GMT
Post by lindsay on Aug 15, 2018 7:03:07 GMT
Lindsay I have voiced my opinion before how I do not like felt under glass, it stifles it for me but I have stopped thinking about it now because a gallery owner said to me everything framed is presented glazed except oils, so they know what sells and that is good enough for me.
I was approached by a B&B owner about doing a possible commission for them and they said it would have to be under glass as it would be in the dining room - imagine folk having their breakfast and going up to touch the felt with eggy fingers ha ha !
Bleh! Egg and felt! I do have some sympathy with your views re glass but I have lots of felt things that aren’t pictures and can be handled so I just think of them as having different purposes. And people do worry about dust, cleaning etc. I’ve even made some labels for my coasters, table mats, lamps and vases saying ‘this felt is made using hot soapy water so is happy to be washed’ as people generally think it’s much more fragile than it actually is.
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Post by tracey on Aug 15, 2018 10:21:05 GMT
Absolutely! also a felting wall hanging doesn't have a sliver of glass in sight.....which is what I am working on right now!
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Avocet
Aug 16, 2018 0:48:45 GMT
Post by Shepherdess on Aug 16, 2018 0:48:45 GMT
The avocet is great. I am on the fence about framing. I think they look better without glass but there are the dust and moth things to deal with. I have done them both ways. Non-glare glass is nice but it is so expensive and dulls the picture a bit.
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Avocet
Aug 16, 2018 5:35:46 GMT
Post by tracey on Aug 16, 2018 5:35:46 GMT
The only one example I have seen of non glare glass was awful.
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Post by lyn on Aug 16, 2018 6:46:14 GMT
I had a small piece of non-glare glass that looked ok on top of a photo, but not on felt - it really dulled the felt. I'd rather use regular glass as that doesn't dull the felt.
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Avocet
Aug 16, 2018 15:29:02 GMT
Post by Pandagirl on Aug 16, 2018 15:29:02 GMT
Beautiful Avocet, I haven’t used any glass. For me it ruins the dimensional aspect. I’d just hang a sign, clean hands only..;-)
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