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Post by MTRuth on Jan 9, 2019 21:02:07 GMT
Great job Pam, it's very pretty. How did you lay out your fibers? Direction of fiber layout makes all the difference with ruffles. Ann had a diagram somewhere that showed the fiber direction for layout.
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Post by lyn on Jan 9, 2019 22:22:22 GMT
Such beautiful colours Pam! Even if the scarf didn't turn out as you wanted, it's still a lovely, wearable scarf. This youtube video isn't in English, but it's clearly demonstrated. At the 6 min 56 secs mark, you will see a technique that really gets the ruffles going - the demonstrator stretches the felt all around the edge. ruffle felt scarf demonstration
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Post by Shepherdess on Jan 9, 2019 23:01:16 GMT
Did you stretch the edge. if not wet it down and do that. gently but firmly if it is thin. I usually start to do it near the end and give it a final stretch at the end. I would just do another layer of the edge if you think its to cobwebby. All the wool on the edge goes at 90 degrees to the middle. she is making quite a thick scarf. I usually divide the wool into 3 parts, 2 sides and one middle but I am making a much lighter scarf for just around your neck inside a coat. A scarf for just around your neck that has a button closure so not a lot of overlap is 50 grams of wool.
I forgot to say. It looks really nice, I like the colour.
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Post by pamster on Jan 10, 2019 5:26:46 GMT
Such beautiful colours Pam! Even if the scarf didn't turn out as you wanted, it's still a lovely, wearable scarf. This youtube video isn't in English, but it's clearly demonstrated. At the 6 min 56 secs mark, you will see a technique that really gets the ruffles going - the demonstrator stretches the felt all around the edge. ruffle felt scarf demonstrationThanks for link, I'll watch it tomorrow, visitors coming tonight
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Post by pamster on Jan 10, 2019 5:32:56 GMT
Did you stretch the edge. if not wet it down and do that. gently but firmly if it is thin. I usually start to do it near the end and give it a final stretch at the end. I would just do another layer of the edge if you think its to cobwebby. All the wool on the edge goes at 90 degrees to the middle. she is making quite a thick scarf. I usually divide the wool into 3 parts, 2 sides and one middle but I am making a much lighter scarf for just around your neck inside a coat. A scarf for just around your neck that has a button closure so not a lot of overlap is 50 grams of wool.
I forgot to say. It looks really nice, I like the colour. Thanks Ann, yes I have seen your neck scarves, it was part of my inspiration. I will try adding a little more fibre on the edge and then stretching.
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Post by lindsay on Jan 10, 2019 7:28:16 GMT
My daily dose is cutting out a 3 pot resist for a pot within a pot experiment. I didn't have enough time to layout the wool for that so make a small round resist to try out Lindsay's method above. I think I should have felted each layer a bit before adding the next but I didn't and its to late now so we will see how it turns out. I rubbed it a bit and now it's on its first tumble. And I have to go to work. Fingers Crossed it works out. Looking forward to seeing your new vessel - I do hope it works. I should have said that the layers were laid fairly thinly but I didn’t felt them first.
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Post by lindsay on Jan 10, 2019 7:31:55 GMT
Inspired by Lindsay and Ann I made my first scarf with a ruffled edge. I used three layers of merino in the middle with a few wisps of silk on top and one layer of a merino silk blend around the edge for the ruffles but the edge didn't ruffle as much as I was expecting and the ruffle is more cobweb like than I wanted. Any ideas about how to do better next time would be much appreciated
Pamster, I love the scarf. Beautiful colours. I don’t make many scarves so can’t add to the others’ excellent advice but look forward to seeing how it works out. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by Antje on Jan 15, 2019 9:03:26 GMT
Just playing catch-up Love your pots Lindsay - I now understand why the pot within pot is separate....it allows them to be moved differently (ie the vessel tops can be set at different angles). Yes I too like the photo with the sea in the background, just a shame our English water is always cold and grey....brrr (and I grew up by the sea). Good luck Ann with your experiment. I like your scarf Pam. Others have much more experience here, but have you tried re-wetting it and stretching the edge a little, like one does with crepe paper?
I sympathise with all you tidy buffs out there. Last year I had migrated and taken over the dining room....completely! Christmas loomed with family so I did a very major sort out (and thorough clean) of the former family room. One of two sofas removed, furniture layout amended, new shelves added and a table at the right height, oh and hundreds of books out (it was also our, or more accurately my, library). The idea was (note the past tense) to do felting work at the table, use my computer as required and when needing a break rest on the small remaining sofa to ponder. Ha....I had that many large plastic boxes of felting 'stuff' (and yarn, and fabric and driftwood etc etc) that I can't see the table or the sofa, much less reach it. To get around it is like walking a tight rope and once in I have to go backwards to get out....even Raffles our small cockerpoo has to perform the same manoeuvre. So guess where I’ve been working?
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Post by lyn on Jan 15, 2019 10:11:28 GMT
ha ha Antje! When my daughter was granted the use of one of her rooms to use as a 'studio', her husband said that not one wisp of fibre was to cross the threshold into the rest of the house ... he may as well have saved his breath ...
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Post by MTRuth on Jan 15, 2019 13:39:47 GMT
Ha! What's a room without fiber?
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Post by Shepherdess on Jan 15, 2019 17:35:42 GMT
Lyn did Annie's husband believe it even as he said it?
Pam ad more wool next time this time just wet it down and stretch it or steam it and stretch it.
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Post by lindsay on Jan 15, 2019 18:15:37 GMT
Antje - thanks, glad you like the pots. You’re right, you can move them around in relation to each other. It also means you keep the colours nice and bright as there’s no migration between the vessels. And as for the sea, I love looking at the moods, colours and textures so don’t much mind that the water’s cold as I’ve no intention of getting into it!
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Post by lindsay on Jan 15, 2019 18:27:35 GMT
My daily dose today was experimenting with making an oyster shell. I used different thicknesses of wool and laying it in different directions to create the overall shape and also added some small resists to get the layers on the outside. It’s still wet so I can’t yet tell whether the silk and pearl fibre I carded into the bottom layer will result in a bit of shine on the under side or will just have been swallowed up. Over all I’m fairly pleased that I got most of the shape I was aiming for. www.ipernity.com/doc/2373440/47980336www.ipernity.com/doc/2373440/47980334The third picture shows some of the layering. I’d have liked these ribs to show more in the final piece. www.ipernity.com/doc/2373440/47980338Now I’ve got the shape I can start experimenting with colours & textures.
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Post by MTRuth on Jan 15, 2019 18:41:22 GMT
I had to read what you wrote again Lindsay. I didn't see any resists and wondered how you got the layers on the outside with just wool placement but I understand now. I think a silk hankie on the inside might give the look of the inside of a shell. The shape turned out great, it really does look like an oyster shell. How big is it?
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Post by lyn on Jan 15, 2019 21:21:57 GMT
It's a lovely oyster shell! Looking forward to seeing what you do with colour.
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