Felting...

Felting is tricky, I have been guessing how to do it because I lack instructions but was too impatient to look them up. Guess I could have online but I wanted to do it at 8pm last night, right there and then you know, so I felted something in a multi coloured sort of explosion which I am not sure what to do with now... I don't think I actually rubbed enough for long enough because the layers of wool are not exactly a whole... there are whisps which look like they might snag off (which is not how a felted item ought to look). So I ended up blanket stitching around the edge and now it's a sort of table mat or giant coaster of some sort...



So then I realise I could layer the fleece into a sort of picture, and I did with layers of green ant the bottom, blue at the top, bits of yellow for a sun and flowers and a couple of purple splodges (butterflies?). I have just been stitching around the 'shapes' andit looks fairly decent. I am thinking about turning it into a wall hanging. The photo here is not so great, it looks more vibrant and less see-through in the flesh, but you get the idea.



But now it looks different from the photo as Don looked at it and said oh no what happened? I was perplexed, like er what do you think has happened to it? It looks all skewed to one side he replies trailing off knowing it means to look that way.....

What he meant was that it was not a perfect shape, rather it was in it's original felted organic shape and so it a momnet of doubt I snipped the edges off to look more uniform, only it was a big mistake, it now looked just plain mishap and Item That Will Never Be Shown as it must be obvious blunder project. So then to rectify my previous painstaiking work I used a fine yellow thread to stitch around the edges. But no longer is it a gift, it is pasted to my kitchen wall where at least I can enjoy my first proper felting experiment.

Here is Isaac hammering his foot away at the wheel (it's not threaded up so it's ok to hammer like that).



Isaac has just asked me why I did not put up here his 'better photo' of him using his hands to manipulate the foot pedal - so here is that pic too:



And here is one of Felix just for fun. I peeked at him feeding his animal friends a little animal biscuit. The orange Popple, the big dog, it's baby golden puppy just under the dogs leg (see it?) and the puppy in it's shed. He was doing that classic child thing 'a bite for you, and you and you and you and then one for me'