Today I made another piece of felt using gray Colinette Point 5 yarn wet-felted on black merino roving. I also experimented with weaving bulky thick and thin yarn on top of roving and then wet-felting the entire assemblage. The resulting piece of felt was a bit messy and perhaps more colorful than I would have liked. But it does have a neat woven texture. More experiments to come…
I was hoping to start working on pysanky today, but it just didn’t happen. Instead I unearthed some of my Colinette Point 5 yarn stash and used it to make a couple of pieces of felt. The first piece was made with scarlet-red wool roving as the background with pieces of hot pink, red, and yellow yarn. The second piece was made with bluish-purple wool roving using pieces of blue, purple, and turquoise yarn. It took a lot of wet-felting (ie. rolling inside the bamboo mat with soapy water) to get these pesky pieces of yarn to adhere to the roving. I had to needle-felt one of the yarn pieces that wasn’t properly attached. I’d like to try sewing a pillow out of these pieces, after I make a few more yarn felts.
another photo with flash:
