My first “fiesta” ornament with some mood lighting (frame is actually bright embossed aluminum), 4.25-inch square
Category: Needle Felting
Back to the birds
In between trying to come up with new knit production items barbed needles can be a form of both entertainment and procrastination.
It must be spring
Inventory in different stages of growth and delopment
The completed hummingbird with embossed metal self frame
More needle felting stage 1
It’s amazing how far tiny bits of fiber go, image is nearly 3 inches at the widest point
Playtime
While procrastinating returning to production knitting for the spring season I found myself inspired by Judy Perez’s Fiesta ornaments and have made my first attempts at metal embossing, adding them as elements in my postcard sized fabric collages, which in turn combine knits, needle felting, needlework techniques, and objects from a stash of accumulated “stuff’. Here are 2 of the results:
Continuing to explore
These are my first two attempts at needle felting on random swatches remaining from machine knit experiments. Both pieces measure “postcard” 4X6 inches. The scale restriction requires thinking in a new way for me, and provides a different way to play with my yarn stash and found objects. It is not clear if any of these techniques will be incorporated into my clothing and accessories, or simply be an end in themselves. Collage lace with some of the same fibers is also on my list of “must try”.
