I finished the merino handspun yarn. It was spun on my spinning wheel (a lendrum).
With another finished yarn, comes another photo collage, with said yarn.
I finished this bobbin of a light magenta/red single. Hopefully, I’ll finish the other half tomorrow and ply them together.
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 love Kaffe Fassett’s patterned and striped fabrics and the way he uses color in his quilt designs. One of his quilt designs called Handkerchief Corners (published in the book, Passionate Patchwork) uses striped fabric to make mitered squares. I decided to use the striped felt that I made yesterday to make a small version of this design. I cut up the striped felt into triangles and needle-felted them on to a black felt background. I also added in tiny squares of solid-colored felt. The result was a colorful something (a trivet? a large coaster?), but the stripes are a bit wonky looking. I’m not sure I like it. I plan to do experiment with yarn later this month to make other varieties of striped felt.
Today was a great day to be inside. I love watching the snow drifts form into icing on my neighbor’s roof, while standing inside my warm and cozy kitchen. I even managed a little time for felting at the kitchen sink until my little lamprey figured out that she wasn’t attached to my hip, as per usual. Then she stood between my legs and howled until I relented and picked her up. Fortunately it is still possible to make felt with one hand, as long as the lamprey isn’t struggling.
Each of these felt squares (about 7″ - 8″ wide) is made of dyed merino wool roving and took about 15 minutes to complete using wet-felting. The smaller colorful one was more experimental, made with end scraps from the purple and green rovings. Eventually they will be cut up to make needle-felted coasters and wall hangings.
